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Damascus: Six Syrian soldiers were killed and three others were wounded when Israeli Air Force planes delivered air strikes from the area of the Golan Heights, Maj. Gen. Oleg Yegorov, deputy head of the Russian Defense Ministry's Center for...

Kiev:Air raid warnings have been issued in the Kirovohrad, Nikolayev, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions of Ukraine, according to the online air raid alert map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.Air raid sirens also sounded in the Kiev-controlled parts...

Moscow: NATO said that it would hold the Military Chiefs of Defense Meeting from January 18-19 to discuss Ukraine and the bloc's military capabilities among other things."NATO’s highest Military Authority, the Military Committee, will meet in person on 18-19...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia reported 360 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Monday, bringing the national total to 5,027,457, according to the health ministry.There is one new imported case, with 359 cases being local transmissions, data released on the ministry's...

Seoul: North Korea could have produced from 20 to 60 nuclear warheads, South Korean media reported.The situation on the Korean Peninsula has become tenser as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the development of a new intercontinental ballistic...

Brasilia: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the Workers' Party (PT) was sworn in as president of Brazil for a four-year term.The inauguration of Lula da Silva and his Vice President Geraldo Alckmin took place at 3:00 pm local...

Mexico City: Ten guards and four inmates died after an attack on a prison in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, the Chihuahua state prosecutor's office reported.On Sunday morning, gunmen in armored vehicles opened fire against the security...

Tehran: Iranian foreign minister said nearly 60 US officials have been blacklisted by Tehran for their involvement in the assassination of top Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.In a televised interview ahead of the third anniversary...

Geneva: Alain Berset from the Social Democratic party of Switzerland on Sunday took office as President of the Swiss Confederation for the second time.Berset is also head of the Swiss Federal Department of Home Affairs. Born in Fribourg on...

Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Sunday that the United States, under the pretext of strengthening cooperation with South Korea and Japan, was creating an "Asian version of NATO.""In 2022 the U.S. frequently deployed various nuclear...