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Paris: French incumbent President Emmanuel Macron won the 2022 French presidential runoff with 18,779,641 votes, or 58.54 per cent of the valid votes, according to the preliminary results released Sunday night by the French Interior Ministry.Macron's rival, far-right...

Stockholm: World military expenditure reached an all-time high of $2.1 trillion in 2021, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday, adding that the five largest spenders are the United States, China, India, the United Kingdom, and...

London: The United Kingdom will send 20 AS90 tracked Howitzers and some 45,000 British-made high explosive shells to the Ukrainian military next week to help fend off Russia's advance, a source confirmed to British newspaper Express on Saturday night....

Islamabad: Pakistan's National Security Committee (NSC) on Friday said that there was no foreign conspiracy to topple the Imran Khan-led government. The meeting which was chaired by Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif concluded that “no evidence had been found...

Seoul: The office of South Korean President Moon Jae-in confirmed on Friday that he has exchanged letters with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in April in which they both agreed that significant results have been achieved in inter-Korean...

Kyiv: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday declared that Russian forces have “liberated” Mariupol and ordered his forces to hold back from storming the Azovstal steel plant, Western media reported on Thursday.The Russian President described a plan to...

Moscow: Russia successfully conducted the first launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Sarmat within the framework of state trials, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on Wednesday."Today, at 15:12 Moscow time, at the Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome...

Imphal: Eminent filmmaker Aribam Syam Sharma categorically stated that Manipuri Cinema can leap forward if filmmakers study and infuse the Manipuri way of life, aesthetics and culture into the films. “Manipur being endowed with rich culture and aesthetic values has...

Washington: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday slashed global growth forecast for 2022 to 3.6 percent amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, 0.8 percentage point lower than the January projection, according to its newly released World Economic Outlook (WEO) report....

Washington: Billionaire businessman Elon Musk declared on Monday that he will not take a penny in salary if appointed to Twitter's board of directors, unofficially sweetening his takeover bid for the remaining stake in the company that he said...