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Moscow: IAEA head Rafael Grossi pledged the UN nuclear watchdog’s support for Armenia on Wednesday as it looks to step up nuclear energy production.Grossi inspected the country’s only nuclear power plant in Metsamor on Tuesday and met with President...

Bhubaneswar: India U-17 women’s team head coach Thomas Dennerby on Wednesday announced a 21-member squad for the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2022 scheduled to begin on October 11.India have been drawn in Group A alongside USA, Morocco and Brazil....

Stockholm: Carolyn R Bertozzi and K Barry Sharpless from the United States and Morten Meldal from Denmark shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...

Lausanne: International Boxing Association (IBA) on Wednesday lifted its ban on Russia and Belarus from competing at its events with immediate effect."The Board of Directors voted in favor to cancel its previous decision and allow boxers of Russia and...

Stockholm: Alain Aspect from France, John F. Clauser from the United States and Anton Zeilinger from Austria won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum information science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on...

Tokyo: North Korea has fired a suspected missile over Japan, in what appears to be a deliberate escalation to get the attention of Tokyo and Washington.The ballistic missile travelled about 4,500 km before falling into the Pacific Ocean --...

Washington: At least 80 people were killed in the US states of Florida and North Caroline by Hurricane Ian which made landfall in southwestern Florida as Category 4 last week.At least 76 people in Florida had died due to...

Geneva: FIFA released a statement on Sunday from president Gianni Infantino, saying "this is a dark day" for football after a tragedy took place in a stadium in Indonesia.The tragedy occurred on Saturday night at the Kanjuruhan Stadium in...

Kiev: Nine countries of Central and Eastern Europe issued a joint statement on Sunday endorsing Ukraine for NATO membership."We Presidents of Central and Eastern Europe… firmly stand behind the 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit decision concerning Ukraine's future membership," the...

Jakarta: At least 129 people were killed and 180 others injured after a stampede and clashes at a football match in Indonesia's Malang, East Java province on Saturday evening, Indonesian police said on Sunday.Provincial police chief Nico Afinta said...