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Kabul: The Taliban has refused to allow female students to leave the Afghan capital to go to study in Kazakhstan and Qatar, an informed source told Sputnik.Both female and male students were planning to leave Kabul, but only male...

New Delhi: India has registered 9,520 new Covid-19 cases, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.The total caseload rose to 4,43,98,696 while the death toll rose to 5,27,597 as 41 more succumbed to the disease.On the other hand, 12,875...

Washington: The United States suspended 26 passenger flights operated by Chinese carriers after Beijing's aviation agency took similar action to mitigate the spread of Covid-19, the US Transportation Department said."We, therefore, conclude that the public interest now requires a...

Baghdad: Nine rockets landed near a Turkish military base in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh on Thursday without causing casualties, the Kurdish security authorities said.Unidentified militants fired the rockets at the Zlikan military base, which houses Turkish forces,...

Los Angeles: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system, NASA said.This observation of a gas giant planet orbiting a sun-like star...

Washington: A US judge has ordered investigators to release an edited version of court papers that authorized the August 8 search of Donald Trump's Florida estate.The public version of the affidavit, a document that includes the evidence gathered...

New Delhi: India has registered 10,256 new Covid-19 cases, the Health Ministry said on Friday.According to the bulletin issued by the Health Ministry, the total caseload rose to 4,43,89,176 while the death toll rose to 5,27,556 as 68...

Houston: Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo was fired in a unanimous vote by the Uvalde school board, three months after 19 children and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School in the US state of...

Washington: The United States on Wednesday announced an additional tranche of security assistance to Ukraine worth nearly 3 billion US dollars, the largest one-time weapons aid to Kyiv that came as the Russia-Ukraine conflict reached the half-year mark.According...

Tokyo: The national police chief of Japan announced on Thursday that he will step down in order to take responsibility for the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.National Police Agency chief Itaru Nakamura’s announcement comes as his agency...