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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...

Kyiv: The Ukrainian forces beseiged in Mariupol city have rejected Russia's demands to surrender and continue to resist the assault, top Ukrainian official said on Sunday."There are still our military forces, our soldiers so they will fight until...

Moscow: The Ukrainian troops have lost more than 23,300 people over the course of Russia's special operation in the country, the Russian Defense Ministry said."As of today, the permanent losses are 23,367 people," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor...

Moscow: Moscow has enrolled individual sanctions against UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Foreign Minister Elizabeth Truss, Defence Minister Ben Wallace and other top-level officials, banning them from entering Russia, the Russian foreign ministry said on Saturday."It was decided...

Moscow: Military personnel of NATO countries were captured during Russia's special operation in Ukraine, Andrey Klimov, the head of the Russian upper chamber's commission for the protection of state sovereignty, said on Friday.The West "continues its war (against...

Moscow: Russian warship Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet that Ukraine claimed to have hit with two missiles, has sunk, Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday.The head of the Odesa Regional Defense and Ukrainian presidential adviser...

Mexico City: An Ukrainian and a Russian, who were seeking asylum to the US, got married in a small ceremony in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, media reports said on Friday.Ukrainian Daria Sakhniuk and Russian Semen Bobrovski...

Washington: The United States is boosting its intelligence sharing with Ukraine so that Kiev can target Russian military units in Donbas and Crimea, The Wall Street Journal reported.The move to provide more intelligence and provide artillery represents a...

Tokyo: Japan has received unofficial, separate invitations from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States to join the AUKUS alliance amid the member states' intention to develop hypersonic weapons, Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun reported on Wednesday.According to...