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Beijing: The State Council, China's cabinet, decided at a meeting Friday to appoint John Lee as the sixth-term chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Lee will assume office on July 1, 2022. Premier Li Keqiang presided...

Washington: The US Congress through bipartisan support approved a gargantuan $40 billion aid package for Ukraine to help fight Russia’s invasion even as President Joe Biden rallied behind the historic NATO membership bids of Sweden and Finland, The Kahleej...

Washington: The US Senate on Thursday passed a $40 billion Ukraine aid bill, sending the legislation to the White House to be signed by President Joe Biden.Senate lawmakers passed the majority threshold with the margin at 74-11 as voting...

Moscow: Russian Defence Ministry on Thursday has claimed that a total of 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers from Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol have surrendered since Monday.Russia said it includes 771 who surrendered in past 24 hours, of whom 80 were...

Pyongyang: North Korea has recorded over 262,000 high fever cases and one death in a day, with a total of 1.9 million infected people registered since late April, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday, amid...

Kabul: The Taliban have ordered women Afghan TV presenters to cover their faces while on-air.Afghan-based Tolo News, in a tweet, said that the ministries of Vice and Virtue and Information and Culture called it a ‘final verdict’ and said...

Washington: The US House of Representatives passed legislation to combat domestic terrorism in the wake of the mass shooting in Buffalo on Saturday by a white supremacist, media reports said.House lawmakers on Wednesday passed the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act...

Moscow: Russian authorities have said that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian troops holed up at a giant steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered, after the collapse of their dogged defence of a site that has become a symbol of their country's resistance,...

Washington: The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that an internal United States military review of a 2019 air attack in Syria that killed civilians has found that US troops not guilty of any violation of the law of war or...

Strasbourg: The Council of Europe said on Wednesday that its Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic had called on the UK government not to allow the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States."In a letter, published...