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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...

Moscow: Russia has decided to withdraw from the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday."In response to the hostile actions, Russian Foreign Minister S.V. Lavrov sent a message to the ministers of...

Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Monday that his country is down to its last day of petrol as it faces its worst economic crisis in more than 70 years, BBC reported.Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in...

Kyiv: A moving photograph of a pregnant woman fleeing a bombed maternity hospital in Ukraine was widely circulated and became the most iconic images of the Russia-Ukraine war.But, according to the BBC report, its subject was targeted by an...

Ankara: Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Monday that his country will oppose the admission of Finland and Sweden into NATO, just hours after they declared that they would seek the membership.President Erdogan said the two Nordic...

Brussels: All EU member states will support Sweden and Finland in joining NATO, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday."We will talk also about the demand from Finland and Sweden to become members of NATO, they...

Nukuʻalofa: The Tongan Volcano's eruption that occurred in January this year has been declared as the biggest explosion ever recorded in the earth's atmosphere, media reports said on Sunday. This explosion was far bigger than any 20th century volcanic event,...

Helsinki: As Finland edges towards joining NATO, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned his Finnish counterpart that the abandoning the country's neutral status would be a "mistake".In a telephonic conversation on Saturday, Putin told Sauli Niinistö there was no...

Kyiv: Ukrainian authorities on Saturday claimed that Russian troops are withdrawing from the country’s second-largest city Kharkiv after weeks of heavy bombardment in what they described as another setback for Moscow in the battlefield, Al Jazeera reported.Ukraine’s military said...