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Beijing: Twenty-one people have been confirmed dead following a hospital fire in Beijing's Fengtai District, according to the district's fire and rescue department.Firefighters received a report of a fire at an inpatient department building of Beijing Changfeng Hospital at...

Dhaka: Out of the loan taken from Russia for the construction of Rooppur nuclear power plant, Bangladesh will repay the amount of 318 million dollars using the Chinese currency Yuan.According to the sources of the Ministry of Finance of...

Moscow: The first cases of the new COVID-19 Arcturus variant, which was earlier identified in India, have been detected in Russia, the health care and consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said."The regions were informed about the sub-variant of the coronavirus...

United Nations: The United Nations has no intention of leaving Sudan and has no plans to do so, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said."There is no plan or thinking of the United Nations leaving Sudan," Dujarric said during a press...

Washington:Four people died and three others were wounded in two shootings on Tuesday in the northeasternmost US state of Maine.Police were called to a home in Bowdoin on Tuesday morning, where they said four people were found dead.Shortly after...

Naypyidaw: The foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) on Tuesday condemned the activities of the Myanmar military government and called for a cessation of violence and the country's return to a democratic path."We continue to strongly condemn...

Paris:France's pension reform will come into force in the fall, President Emmanuel Macron said.On Friday, the French Constitutional Council approved the key article of the pension reform bill, which would gradually raise the age of retirement in France from...

Hangzhou: Eleven people were dead after a fire broke out at a factory building in the city of Jinhua, east China's Zhejiang Province, on Monday afternoon.The casualties were trapped on the third floor of the building in an industrial...

Dhaka: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bangladeshi government on Monday signed agreements on provision of 230 million U.S. dollars in loans to help reconstruct northeastern Bangladesh affected by devastating floods last year.The assistance will help in the...

Washington:The US House of Representatives passed a bill to hold China accountable for the transit of an alleged surveillance balloon over the United States earlier this year, calling for export controls and sanctions on Beijing in response to the...