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Abu Dhabi: The UAE’s Federal Supreme Council on Saturday elected Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the President.According to WAM, Dubai Ruler and Prime Minister of the UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum shared his...

Kyiv: The war against Russia will reach a turning point by mid-August and be over by the end of the year, Ukraine’s head of military intelligence has told Sky News.Major General Kyrylo Budanov also claimed that a coup to...

Tblisi: Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday assured citizens that the country will maintain a long-lasting peace with Russia and ruled out any military conflicts between both nations."We guarantee our residents that peace will be long-lasting. There will...

Colombo: United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Thursday evening sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.Wickremesinghe took oath before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President’s House. Secretary to the President Gamini Senarath and Prof....

Warsaw: Russian president Vladimir Putin is more dangerous than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin, the Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki warned.Calling for “de-Putinisation” in an article in The Telegraph on Tuesday, he said Putin’s dangerous ideology is bolstered by...

Muscat: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres missed the opportunity to reach a peaceful settlement on Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday."To my great regret, the secretariat of this organization, including its general secretary, missed the opportunity...

Beijing: Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom (AUKUS), which condemned China and the Solomon Islands for a security cooperation deal, are the ones militarizing the South Pacific and provoking a new arms race in the region, Chinese...

Colombo: He was a demigod for tens of thousands of Sri Lankans. Some people in the North Central Sri Lankan district of Anuradhapura still keep his picture next to their Buddha statue. Mahinda Rajapaksa was revered to that extent.Many...

Colombo: Protesters gathered outside the Trincomalee Naval Base on Tuesday amid reports that former prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and some of his family members have sought refuge there and were planning to leave the country.A group of protestors were...

Washington: The United States has transferred over 85 out of the 90 M777 howitzers committed to Ukraine during Russia's special military operation, a senior US defense official said on Monday."I can report that almost all the 90 howitzers...