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Beijing: The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 4,233 locally transmitted confirmed COVID-19 cases, the National Health Commission said Friday.Altogether 30,539 local asymptomatic carriers were newly identified.A total of 2,877 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospitals after recovery on the...

Doha:Romelu Lukaku missed several golden scoring opportunities as Belgium drew 0-0 with Croatia to bid farewell to the FIFA World Cup here on Thursday.The 2018 runners-up, led by former Ballon d'Or winner Luka Modric, progressed as the second-placed team...

Washington:The Biden administration has designated two leaders of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and two of the Tehrik i Taliban Pakistan (TTP) movement in Afghanistan as global terrorists, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press...

Doha: The Japanese national football team defeated the Spanish team 2-1 in the third match of the group stage of FIFA World Cup in Qatar, making it to the Last 16, while the German team leaves the tournament.Group E...

United Nations: A round of condolences for China at a United Nations Security Council meeting on Wednesday, after the death of former President Jiang Zemin, put into sharp relief the fraught state of relations between Beijing and the US,...

London:Osama bin Laden’s chosen son – anointed heir to the al-Qaeda warlord amid the rugged Afghan peaks -- says his beloved pets were used by his father to test chemical weapons and he was also taught to fire an...

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi as India assumes the presidency of G-20.Yogi tweeted, "Under leadership of PM Narendra Modi, India is shaping new paradigms of human centric globalisation encompassing the...

Doha: Defending champions France finished as Group D leaders despite a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Tunisia at the FIFA World Cup on Wednesday.Tunisia almost saw their stunning victory over Didier Deschamps' side slip away in the last...

Kyiv: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk will visit Ukraine from December 4-7, his office said."UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Sunday begins a four-day official visit to Ukraine, at the invitation of the...

Rome: The Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF), banned from World Athletics events since November 2015, is expecting to be reinstated in March next year.RusAF leadership team had 'embedded a new culture of good governance and zero tolerance for doping throughout...