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Cairo: Sudan is preparing to file lawsuits against Ethiopia and the Italian company implementing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) if Addis Ababa carries out the second filling of the dam, Sudanese Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas said on Friday.The...

Washington: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved an extended deployment of the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Middle East and the deployment of long-range bombers to the region, two of which have already arrived, as a move...

Washington: The global death toll from COVID-19 has gone past 3.077 million while the number of cases crossed more than 145 million said the US-based Johns Hopkins University in its latest update.Johns Hopkins University is the most credible institution...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree on countermeasures to "unfriendly actions" of foreign states amid an intensified diplomatic row with the United States and some European countries.In accordance with the decree published by the Kremlin,...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, during phone conversation with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, urged the latter to end his support for the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Syria and the organization of opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, who...

Washington: The Biden administration will resume the annual summit with leaders from 574 US tribes this fall to hold high-level talks on key issues, the White House said in a press release."White House today announced that it will hold...

Washington: Sixty per cent of the US public believe police should be held more accountable for mistreating African-Americans and say President Joe Biden is doing too little to reform law enforcement procedures, a new poll revealed on Friday.Confidence that...

Moscow: Russian troops that were engaged in the surprise combat readiness check in the country's south and west start returning to their permanent bases, the defense ministry said on Friday."Military units and formations are marching to railroad stations and...

Tokyo: Japan's Tokyo and the western prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo will likely be placed under a state of emergency from Sunday to May 11, which would cover the Golden Week string of national holidays, amid rising COVID-19...

Moscow: The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday demanded the Czech embassy in Moscow reduce the number of employees shortly after Prague made a mirror-like decision.Earlier in the day, the Czech Foreign Ministry announced that it would reduce and put...