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Tel Aviv: A fire broke out on a section of the Eilat-Ashkelon oil pipeline in Israel after a direct hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, Israeli TV Channel 13 reported.It said direct damage to the fuel...

Moscow: Syrian government troops, with the support of Russia's Aerospace Forces, have eliminated 338 terrorists in Syria since April 23, a spokesman for the Russian group of forces in Syria told reporters."Units of the Syrian government troops, with the...

Moscow: Most cyberattacks on Russia in 2020 were carried out from IP addresses registered in the United States, Germany and the Netherlands, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov said in an interview with Sputnik."As for the issue of malicious...

Moscow: At least 11 people, including nine children, were killed and 32 others were injured after two attackers opened fire at a school in the Russian city of Kazan on Tuesday.One of the perpetrators has been detained and the...

Washington: A US Coast Guard cutter fired on Monday dozens of warning shots to fend off multiple Iranian attack boats in the Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters.“After following all the appropriate and established procedures ......

Gaza: The death toll in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip increased to 20 people, including nine children and one woman, the enclave's health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra told Sputnik on Monday.Earlier, the Gaza health authorities reported nine deaths."As...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he would do everything possible to mobilize the international community, especially the Islamic world, to stop what he labelled Israel's terror against Palestinians.Erdogan held separate telephone conversations with Palestinian...

Washington: Russia's military intelligence service (GRU) may be behind the several cases of alleged directed-energy attacks on US personnel that caused health issues, the newspaper Politico reported on Monday citing unnamed US officials.The US intelligence community has not reached...

Kathmandu: As Nepal is scrambling to find enough oxygen for a swelling number of COVID-19 patients, the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) has also taken the initiative to collect oxygen cylinders from mountaineers.According to the association, around 5,000 oxygen cylinders...

Beijing: China's population has grown by 5.38 percent over the past 10 years to 1.41 billion, according to the seventh nationwide census of 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics of China said in a statement."The population of mainland China,...