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Indian Foreign Minister Jaishankar to visit Pakistan for SCO summit
NEW DELHI - Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar will visit Pakistan to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation...
Oct 5, 20242 min read
UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego Garcia airbase
LONDON/PORT LOUIS - Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the...
Oct 4, 20243 min read
Russian guided bomb hits apartment building in Ukraine's Kharkiv, injures 10
A Russian guided bomb struck a five-storey apartment block in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, late on Wednesday, starting fires...
Oct 4, 20242 min read
Tokyo expands underground 'cathedral' complex to counter climate change rains
KASUKABE, Japan - Just after 5 a.m. on August 30, water began flooding a vast underground chamber called the "cathedral" just north of...
Oct 3, 20243 min read
CIA expands online recruitment of informants to China, Iran, North Korea
WASHINGTON - The U.S. CIA on Wednesday launched a new drive to recruit informants in China, Iran and North Korea, adding to what it says...
Oct 3, 20242 min read
Russian troops reach centre of Ukrainian bastion Vuhledar
KYIV - Russian troops have reached the centre of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine's industrial Donbas...
Oct 2, 20243 min read
Explainer-How significant would Russia's capture of Ukrainian town of Vuhledar be?
Russian troops have reached the centre of Vuhledar, a bastion on strategic high ground in eastern Ukraine that has resisted Russian...
Oct 2, 20243 min read
North Korea's Kim lauds U-20 women's soccer World Cup victory
SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has met the country's women's football team that won the Under-20 World Cup in Colombia last...
Oct 1, 20241 min read
FBI will pay $22.6 million to settle female trainees' sex bias claims
The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to pay $22.6 million to settle a lawsuit by 34 women who claim they were wrongly dismissed from...
Oct 1, 20242 min read
Analysis-Putin draws a nuclear red line for the West
LONDON -President Vladimir Putin has drawn a "red line" for the United States and its allies by signalling that Moscow will consider...
Sep 28, 20246 min read
Incoming Japan PM Ishiba's 'Asian NATO' idea test for US diplomacy
TOKYO - Shigeru Ishiba, tapped to be Japan's next prime minister, may cause diplomatic headaches for the U.S. with proposals to revamp...
Sep 28, 20242 min read
India will not buy from Russia's sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 project, oil secretary says
NEW DELHI - India will not buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced from Russia's Arctic LNG 2 project, which is sanctioned by Western...
Sep 28, 20241 min read
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