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Moscow: Cuban authorities have advised tourists to visit the Caribbean country without bringing any cash in dollars, which will no longer be accepted as valid currency starting from June 21, the first vice president of the island’s Central Bank,...

Moscow: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has chaired the second expanded meeting of the Central Military Commission of the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK), during which he discussed the enhancement of the army’s fighting efficiency in light of the...

Beijing: China on Thursday passed a legislation to retaliate against foreign sanctions.The legislation was enacted at the 29th session of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, China's top legislative body.This follows China's escalating tensions with the...

Islamabad: The death toll from the collision between two trains in Pakistan's southern Sindh province early Monday morning has risen to 62, a government official said on Tuesday.The death toll rose after rescue teams pulled out more bodies from...

Tokyo: Japan will continue negotiating territorial issues and a peace treaty with Russia, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said on Monday.On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin told foreign journalists at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that the...

Islamabad: At least 30 people were killed and 50 others injured after two passenger trains collided in the Ghotki district of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province on Monday, local authorities said.Sir Syed Express train, headed from Lahore to Karachi, collided...

Bishkek: The situation on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan has deteriorated once again after Tajik forces were detected entering the Kyrgyz territory, the Kyrgyz State Border Service told Sputnik on Friday."The Tajik side, violating all the previously reached...

Moscow:  The upcoming meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, scheduled for June 16, is highly important, but one should not expect too much from it, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday."This is...

Washington: The United States must pay reparations for the 1921 massacre of 300 Black Americans in Tulsa, Oklahoma in order to deliver justice and avoid reducing the tragedy to mere symbolism, civil rights advocates told Sputnik.On May 31 and...

Madrid: The EU held a closed summit last week after the Ryanair incident, where several European leaders expressed fears over the possibility that Russia could take advantage of the situation and "absorb" Belarus, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported...