UNB: The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 525 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total case count moun... Read more
World News Desk: Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, is planning to discuss the potential withdrawal of the country from the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Heal... Read more
World News Desk: Russia noted that the US is deliberately concealing information regarding Pentagon-sponsored bio-warfare research in Ukraine. Moscow intends to initiate a UN probe into posi... Read more
World News Desk: A decision by Brussels to initiate the procedure of Ukraine’s accession to EU membership would signify the end of the 27-member bloc, Russia’s deputy foreign minister Alexan... Read more
AFP: Sri Lanka’s president swore in a new prime minister Thursday to replace his brother, who was banned from leaving the country after his supporters launched violent attacks on a pro... Read more
AFP: Heavily armed troops evacuated outgoing Sri Lankan prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa from his official residence in Colombo on Tuesday after thousands of protesters breached the main gat... Read more
ANI: Amid a mounting pressure on China, especially from the US to condemn the Russian actions in Ukraine, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said that “sanctions only make... Read more
AP/UNB: Diplomats and rights groups expressed concern Saturday after Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency and police used force against peaceful protesters a... Read more
Male [Maldives]: A group of Maldivian youth demonstrated in front of the residence of former President Abdulla Yameen who is running an anti-India “India-Out” campaign. The protest has rattl... Read more
AFP: Millions of people in Beijing returned to work Thursday, many remotely, with scores of subway stations shut after a national holiday muted by the coronavirus curbs. Chinese authorities... Read more
AFP: One person died in Iraq and more than 5,000 were treated in hospitals Thursday for respiratory ailments due to a sandstorm, the seventh in a month, the health ministry said. Duststorms... Read more
UNB: The war in Ukraine is aggravating a triple food, energy and financial crisis across Africa, according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The war in Ukraine is a human tragedy whi... Read more
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Saturday (local time) condemned the “continued heinous terrorist attacks targeting civilians in Afghanistan” while underlining the need to hold... Read more
AFP, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s fractious opposition showed rare unity Sunday, joining together to demand embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign over the country’s worst-ever ec... Read more
AFP: At least 18 people were trapped under a building that collapsed in central China, officials said Saturday, as rescuers pulled apart the rubble brick by brick in an effort to reach survi... Read more
Dmitry Medvedev, who served as Russia’s president from 2008 until 2012, has alluded to how the Second World War ended for Germany, after Berlin lawmakers supported the delivery of heavy weap... Read more
The Russian Ministry of Defense has accused London of a “direct provocation” after British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey encouraged Ukrainian forces to use UK-supplied weapons to attac... Read more
The policies implemented by the West and the “Kiev regime” may result in the collapse of Ukraine into several smaller countries, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said, re... Read more
World News Desk: The overall number of Covid cases has surged past 510 million amid a rise in new infections in parts of the world. According to Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the total cas... Read more
TASS: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday who will come to Moscow for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. This wil... Read more
