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Tehran: A huge fire has hit the Iranian port city of Bushehr where a navy military base and an atomic power plant are located, media reported.The Bushehr Municipality Fire Department says that no people were injured in the incident...

Toronto: Ottawa should respect China’s judicial system, the East Asian nation’s envoy to Canada said, responding to claims that Beijing is engaging in coercive diplomacy through its ongoing detention of two Canadian nationals.Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael...

Beijing: China is prepared to discuss sharing patents for the coronavirus vaccines within the World Trade Organization (WTO), Wang Wenbin, the spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on Thursday.Washington has already declared that it would be in favor...

Baghdad: The United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (UNITAD) has found that the Islamic State militants tested biological weapons on prisoners in Iraq, Al Arabiya reported, citing...

Beijing: Beijing decided on Thursday to indefinitely suspend the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue over what it describes as Canberra's measures to disrupt normal exchanges and cooperation, the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission said.The commission describes the Australian Commonwealth...

Washington: Two-thirds of Americans support the Biden administration’s decision to pull US troops from Afghanistan by September, a new Charles Koch Institute poll revealed on Wednesday.When civilian respondents were asked whether they support or oppose the US government’s decision...

Moscow: Five people, including a former lawmaker, died in Myanmar's Bago region as the result of a blast caused by a makeshift explosive device, the state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Wednesday, citing police.According to the...

Manila: The Philippines will ban travellers from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from May 7 in efforts to prevent the spread of the highly infectious COVID-19 variant first found in India, Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said on Wednesday.In...

United Nations: Myanmar Ambassador to the United Nations Kyaw Moe Tun on Tuesday urged the United States to take a decisive role in resolving the political crisis in the Southeast Asian country following the February 1 military coup."The situation...

United Nations: Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Zhang Jung said in a press conference that he hoped the US policy review on North Korea will emphasize diplomatic efforts rather than pressure."We need to have further studies on the...