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Ottawa: Protesters have torn down statues to Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II during an Every Child Matters rally in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, the CBS broadcaster reported.The rally was held on Thursday, which was also Canada Day....

Washington: The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed two bills to repeal the authorities it gave to the president to launch the 1991 war against Iraq and to fight communism in the Middle East.A bipartisan majority of lawmakers...

Washington: Afghanistan may collapse into civil war after the full US military withdrawal is completed, commanding General Austin Miller said on Tuesday.“Civil war is certainly a path that can be visualized,” Miller, a four-star general, told a rare press...

Rome: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Friday did not rule out that Russia's coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V might never be approved by the European Medicines Agency."We have zeroed in on specific vaccines that are in use and concluded...

Beijing: China on Friday operationalised its first fully electrified bullet train in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, connecting the provincial capital Lhasa and Nyingchi, a strategically located Tibetan border town close to Arunachal Pradesh, the PTI reported.The 435.5-km...

Washington: The US Senate passed legislation to establish a no-first-use policy in the United States in regards to nuclear weapons.The Senate on Thursday passed the No First use Act by unanimous consent.The bill is authored by Senator Elizabeth Warren...

Vienna: Russia may drop bombs on British warships if they test it again in the Black Sea, Konstantin Gavrilov, the Russian envoy to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said on Thursday.UK defense minister Ben Wallace...

Moscow: International NGO Global Witness found that Facebook was promoting Myanmar's military propaganda one month after the military coup on February 1, 2021.After Myanmar's military imprisoned the democratically elected government, the social media giant banned the armed forces from...

Washington: The United States is reducing the number of its anti-missile systems as part of the readjustment of its military presence in the Middle East as the country is shifting its attention to China and Russia, The Wall Street...

London: Imagine trying to make an impression on someone who's met, well, almost everyone.Such is the challenge for President Joe Biden, who is set to sip tea with Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday at Windsor Castle after a Group...