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Tokyo: Fumio Kishida will become the first prime minister of Japan who will participate in the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Friday."From July...

Colombo: The World Bank has said that at the moment it does not plan to offer new financing to Sri Lanka until an adequate macroeconomic policy framework is put in place by the country's leaders, it was reported on...

Washington: President Biden and President Xi Jinping warned each other over any move over Taiwan during a phone call that lasted more than two hours, BBC reported on Friday.President Joe Biden told his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that...

Islamabad: Pakistan is facing a considerably high number of cases of viral hepatitis B and C, Dawn reported on Friday.According to reports around 15 million people in Pakistan are believed to be infected with viral hepatitis C and another...

Bogota: The Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) announced the indictment of 10 soldiers for the willful killing and forced disappearance of civilians, under the pretense that the victims had been members of armed groups."The Jurisdiction for Peace...

Tehran: At least five people died and nine others were injured on Thursday in a flood and landslide near this city, the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported, citing Tehran's Red Crescent Society.Earlier on the day, Morteza Moradi,...

London: The United Kingdom’s national security adviser, Stephen Lovegrove, has warned of the growing risk of nuclear confrontation with Russia and China, in the midst of a breakdown in the backdoor communication channels that had helped maintain peace during...

Manila: The Philippine government has announced the scrapping of a deal to purchase 16 Russian military transport helicopters, fearing possible US sanctions, Khaleej Times reported on Thursday.Earlier, former Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said that he had canceled the 12.7-billion-peso...

Beijing: US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's rumored plan for a trip to Taiwan has infuriated China and left the White House with a serious geopolitical headache, BBC reported on Wednesday.China has warned of "serious consequences" if Nancy...

Kampala: The World Health Organization (WHO) donated 2,400 monkeypox test kits to Uganda to help with the African country's response to the infectious disease.WHO Representative to Uganda Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam on Tuesday handed over the kits to Ugandan...