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This photo provided on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, by the North Korean government shows a missile test from railway in North Pyongan Province, North Korea (Korea News Service via AP)World
North Korea sends missile soaring over Japan in escalation

SEOUL: North Korea on Tuesday fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile over Japan, its neighbours said, escalating...

4 Oct 2022 8:45 AM IST

A policeman guards at the edge of Red Square in central Moscow on September 29, 2022, as the square is sealed prior to a ceremony of the incorporation of the new territories into Russia. (Photo: AFP)World
Kremlin announces Ukraine annexation ceremony for Friday

MOSCOW: Russia will formally annex four regions of Ukraine its troops occupy at a grand ceremony in Moscow on Friday,...

29 Sept 2022 5:42 PM IST

Centre has put restrictions on the exports of wheat flour exports and other related products like maida, semolina, wholemeal atta and resultant atta. (Representational image: PTI)World
India-'s wheat exports ban hits chewy chapati eating Punjabis in...

Singapore: India's ban on wheat exports since May has hit Singapore eateries serving soft chewy chapati, mostly for...

27 Sept 2022 11:56 AM IST

Japans Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno speaks at a regular news conference in Tokyo Monday, Sept. 262, 2022. The top government spokesman announced an additional ban on exports of chemical weapons-related goods to Russia. (Kyodo News via AP)World
Japan bans export of chemical weapons goods to Russia

Japan-'s government on Monday banned the export of materials that may be used for chemical weapons to 21 Russian...

26 Sept 2022 12:54 PM IST

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Explosion kills 3 people in Afghan capital: Taliban official

ISLAMABAD: An explosion in Afghanistan's capital has killed at least three people and wounded 13 others, a Taliban...

21 Sept 2022 6:57 PM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AP)World
Putin announces partial mobilisation of reservists

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday announced a "partial mobilisation" of some 300,000 reservists...

21 Sept 2022 4:48 PM IST

Mahsa Amini, who was detained last Tuesday after Irans so-called morality police found fault with her headscarf. (Photo: Twitter)World
Protesters tear-gassed at rally over custodial death of woman held for...

TEHRAN: Iranian police fired tear gas to disperse a protest in the western, mainly Kurdish city of Sanandaj, where...

19 Sept 2022 4:03 PM IST

Sali Hafiz streamed a live video of her raid, in which she could be heard yelling at employees to release a sum of money while entrances to the bank were sealed. (Photo: Twitter)World
Wave of Lebanon bank -'heists-' to seize back frozen savings

GHAZIYEH: A man held up a Lebanese bank to withdraw his frozen savings Friday, the latest in a string of...

16 Sept 2022 4:43 PM IST

Ukraine said on Friday it had counted 450 graves at just one burial site near Izyum, which was seized back by Ukrainian forces. (Photo: TwitterWorld
UN wants to send team to probe mass grave in Ukraine-'s Izyum

GENEVA: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' office said on Friday it wanted to send a team to Izyum to verify...

16 Sept 2022 4:17 PM IST

Chinas President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose during their meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders summit in Samarkand on Thursday. (Photo: AFP)World
Xi, Putin meet in Uzbekistan as Ukraine war dominates

SAMARKAND: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin met for talks on boosting ties between their...

15 Sept 2022 8:17 PM IST

Sali Hafiz streamed a live video of her raid, in which she could be heard yelling at employees to release a sum of money while entrances to the bank were sealed. (Photo: Twitter)World
Woman robs defaulting bank to pay for -'ill sister-'s-' treatment;...

BEIRUT: A Lebanese woman held up a Beirut bank on Wednesday and reportedly walked out with thousands of dollars to fund...

14 Sept 2022 4:13 PM IST

Britains Queen Elizabeth smiles after awarding Captain Sir Thomas Moore his knighthood during a ceremony at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England. The former British colony of Barbados, once known as \Little England,\ announced Tuesday, Sept. 15, that it plans to replace the monarch with its own head of state in time for next years 55th independence anniversary. (AP)World
Saudi Arabia arrests man over pilgrimage for Queen Elizabeth

DUBAI: Saudi police arrested a Yemeni man this week after he advertised on social media his pilgrimage to Mecca, where...

13 Sept 2022 5:58 PM IST

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