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Washington: US President Joe Biden has announced that he will visit Texas "in the coming days" to meet the grieving families after a teen killed 21 people, including 19 children, at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde town on...

Seoul: South Korea, United States and Japan condemning North Korea's latest ballistic missile launches, on Thursday agreed to step up trilateral cooperation in dealing with the issue.S Korea’s first vice foreign minister Cho Hyun-dong and his American and Japanese...

Tehran: The death toll in a 10-storey commercial building collapse in Iran's southwestern city of Abadan has risen to 19, semi-official news agency ISNA reported Thursday quoting a local official.So far, 37 have been injured and are under treatment...

Washington: All of the 21 victims in Tuesday's school shooting in Texas were killed inside the same classroom when the shooter barricaded himself inside, spokesperson for the Texas Department for Public Safety Lt Chris Olivarez said on Wednesday.“The shooter...

Beijing: In reaction to US President Joe Biden's remark on Taiwan, the Chinese armed forces have organised military exercises near Taiwan.CGTN quoted Senior Colonel Shi Yi, spokesperson for the PLA Eastern Theater Command, as saying that the People's Liberation...

Seoul: North Korea has tested a nuclear detonation device probably in preparation for its seventh nuclear test, the South Korean presidential office said on Wednesday.Yonhap quoted Kim Tae-hyo, first deputy director of the National Security Office, as saying that...

Tokyo: The leaders of Quad countries, during their Summit in Tokyo, on Tuesday decided to work together to develop space applications, including in the area of Earth observations, and provide capacity building support to other countries."We will work together...

Moscow: Russia is revising its foreign policy concept, designing a new edition of the document that outlines the country's priorities and interests on the international arena, in a collective process involving a lot of relevant parties, Russian Foreign Ministry...

Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been reelected for the second term, WHO said on Tuesday."Today at #WHA75 (the World Health Assembly)Member States re-elected @DrTedros to serve a second five-year term as Director-General of...

Tokyo: Japan scrambled its fighter jets and sent official protests to both Russia and China over their joint military aircraft flight over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea on Tuesday, Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said."On...