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Tokyo: The G7 agriculture ministers have agreed to cooperate on food safety and environmental sustainability during a meeting in the Japanese city of Miyazaki, the Kyodo news agency reports.The agriculture ministers issued a joint statement after their summit held...

Sriharikota: In a dedicated commercial mission, ISRO's workhose launch vehicle PSLV-C55 today successfully launched two Singapore satellites in the intended orbit from the SHAR Range, here.After a 25-hour countdown, the 44.4 m four tall homegrown rocket, with a lift...

Moscow: Twitter on Friday removed the "state-affiliated" and "government-funded" labels from news media accounts with government involvement in editorial content.Twitter dropped the labels tagged to the accounts of, among others, RIA Novosti, Sputnik, the BBC, ABC News, SBS News...

Ankara:  All NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine should become a member of the alliance, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday."I said in Kiev yesterday that Ukraine’s future is in Euro Atlantic family and all NATO...

Geneva: The death toll as a result of armed clashes between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has risen to 413, and more than 3,500 others have been injured, World Health Organization (WHO) spokeswoman Margaret...

London: UK Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Justice Dominic Raab said on Friday that he had decided to resign following an investigation into allegations made against him of inappropriate behavior towards civil servants.In late February, Raab...

Moscow: US entrepreneur Elon Musk said on Wednesday that Microsoft corporation illegally trained its artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm with Twitter user data, which calls for legal action."They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time," Musk tweeted.In January,...

New Delhi: Apple CEO Tim Cook called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, who expressed delight to meet him and exchange views on the tech-powered transformations taking place in India.The PM said in a tweet: "An absolute delight...

Naypyidaw: The foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) on Tuesday condemned the activities of the Myanmar military government and called for a cessation of violence and the country's return to a democratic path."We continue to strongly condemn...

Paris:France's pension reform will come into force in the fall, President Emmanuel Macron said.On Friday, the French Constitutional Council approved the key article of the pension reform bill, which would gradually raise the age of retirement in France from...