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Madrid: A total of 863 people died in Spain from July 10-18 due to an intense heat wave that hit the country this month, according to the Carlos III Health Institute subordinate to the Spanish Health Ministry.The institute's daily...

Tehran: Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Wednesday that for the talks to save the 2015 nuclear deal, the United States should give guarantees for securing Iran's economic interests under a possible agreement, according to the official IRNA...

New Delhi: India registered 20,557 new Covid-19 cases, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.According to the Ministry's bulletin, the total caseload rose to 4,38,03,619, while the death toll rose to 5,25,825 as 40 more people succumbed to the...

Colombo: Acting President and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Wednesday elected the eighth Executive President of Sri Lanka to succeed the deposed Gotabaya Rajapksa and immediately called for national unity to overcome the country's worst economic crisis since...

Beijing: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian on Tuesday said that Beijing is insisting the US to cancel House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.He said, "If Speaker Pelosi visits Taiwan, it would seriously violate the one-China...

Tehran: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Tehran, on his second visit outside Russia since the start of the Ukraine war.The Russian President met with Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi here and will meet Iran's supreme leader and Turkish President...

London: Lawmakers in the House of Commons, the lower house of the British Parliament, backed outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government in a confidence vote.Johnson's government called for the confidence vote itself to see off a rival move by...

Islamabad: Despite the heavy loss in the Punjab provincial election and the renewed demand by the opposition Pakis­tan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) fresh demand for early general elections, the two main components of the ruling coalition — the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz...

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again renewed his threat to “freeze” the bid of Sweden and Finland's bid to join NATO unless the military alliance complies with Ankara’s conditions, Khaleej Times reported.Erdogan had earlier called on the...

Islamabad: A day after PTI’s resounding victory in the by-elections held in 20 constituencies of Punjab, the party has nominated Chaudhry Parvez Elahi as their candidate for the office of chief minister of Punjab, Dawn reported on Tuesday.In...