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Tehran: The Iranian Army on Sunday unveiled new indigenous military hardware in an event held in the capital Tehran, Press TV reported.A radar warning system was put on display in the event, which is capable of detecting and jamming...

Amsterdam: The Dutch ministry of aviation said Sunday that flights from India would be banned till at least May 1 amid concerns about a new coronavirus variant.An official statement by the ministry read "A flight ban will take effect...

Washington: Joe Biden’s approval ratings after his initial 100 days as President is the third lowest for any US president since 1945, claimed the latest survey.Since 1945, only Donald Trump in 2017 and Gerald Ford in 1974, had worst...

Washington: The global caseload of COVID-19 has topped 146.67 million, as per the latest data released by the US-based Johns Hopkins University.Johns Hopkins University is the foremost and most credible organisation that tracks COVID-19 data globally.Over the past day,...

Yerevan: Armenian President Armen Sarkissian and the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed a statement by US President Joe Biden on Saturday, in which he referred to the 1915 mass killing of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide."We...

Buenos Aires: Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine is the most effective one in the world, Venezuelan Health Minister Carlos Alvarado said on Saturday, receiving a new shipment of doses from Moscow at the Caracas airport.In December 2020, Moscow and...

Ankara: The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned US Ambassador David Satterfield to express protest in connection with US President Joe Biden's statement, in which he referred to the 1915 mass killing of ethnic Armenians in Ottoman Turkey...

Beijing: The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 13 new COVID-19 cases, all of which were imported, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday.Of them, nine were reported in Shanghai, three in Fujian, and one in...

Bangkok: Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Saturday that Myanmar's military leadership was "not opposed" to a visit of an official ASEAN delegation to the country to help resolve the ongoing political crisis.Earlier in the day, ASEAN...

Berlin: Ukraine has asked Germany, though in vain, to give it old corvettes amid a military standoff with Russia, according to sources who spoke with the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily.The German newspaper said Foreign Minister Heiko Maas balked at the...