Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared a state of emergency with effect from Friday midnight, according to the presidential media division. The...
US President Joe Biden has named Karine Jean-Pierre as the next White House press secretary, the first Black person to hold the...
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described his hours long weekend meeting with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Kyiv as a powerful...
American troops left behind USD 7.12 billion worth of military hardware in Afghanistan after they pulled out from the war-ravaged country, in...
Amid nationwide protests and growing calls for his resignation, Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that he will step down...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned against an imminent World War III looming in the forefront as Ukraine fails to comply...
French President Emmanuel Macron comfortably won reelection to a second term Sunday, triggering relief among allies that the nuclear-armed power won’t abruptly...
China’s ruling Communist Party has set the ball rolling for a rare third term for President Xi Jinping as he was unanimously...
Russia’s foreign ministry has announced that it has barred US Vice President Kamala Harris, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and 27 other prominent...
In a veiled attack on Pakistan’s Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, former prime minister Imran Khan has alleged that “some elements”...
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