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Baku: Azerbaijan has revised upwards to 79 the death toll from this week's clashes with neighboring Armenia, with hundreds of troops wounded in the latest round of fighting between the two regional rivals."The Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan has updated...

London: The queue to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state at Westminster Hall remains near total capacity with an expected wait time of at least 24 hours, according to the UK government's live queue tracker.People have been advised...

New Delhi: Wishes poured in for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday, with a series of events lined up throughout the day to mark his 72nd birthday.Top BJP leaders, as well as Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, joined the...

Batken(Kyrgyzstan): Almost 30 people have been reported killed and dozens injured in clashes on the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border.Fighting regularly flares up between the two former Soviet states, whose border has been disputed since the collapse of the USSR.A fresh...

Damascus: Five soldiers were killed by a fresh Israeli missile attack on the international airport of the capital Damascus and military sites south of the capital after midnight Friday, the Syrian military said.The Syrian air defenses, it said, were...

London: A Chinese government delegation has been banned from attending the lying-in-state of Queen Elizabeth II, the BBC reported.House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is understood to have refused a request for access to Westminster Hall over Chinese...

New Delhi: With a surge in his wealth, Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani has become the second richest man in the world beating France's Bernard Arnault AND Family, according to the Forbes real-time billionaires list.The list showed Adani's total...

New Delhi: India has registered 6,298 new Covid-19 cases, the Health Ministry said on Friday.According to the bulletin issued by the Health Ministry, the total caseload rose to 4,45,22,777 while the death toll rose to 5,28,273 as 23...

Samarkand: The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit got underway in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Friday with the participation of the leaders of eight member states India, China, Russia, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.Ahead of the formal start to the key...

London: Queen Elizabeth II made personal additions to plans for her funeral day, Buckingham Palace has said.Among the touches requested by the Queen is the playing of a lament by her piper.The state funeral at Westminster Abbey on...