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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...

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...