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Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the US from September 23 to 25 at the invitation of US President Donald Trump, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced Monday. Xi is scheduled to arrive in Washington September 23 and hold summit...

New Delhi: Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anita Anand, has said that she looks forward to meeting External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar this week and discuss the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). “The Canada-India bilateral relationship is growing and the conclusion of the CEPA...

Sanaa: Four people were killed and three others injured Sunday in Saudi airstrikes targeting telecommunications infrastructure in Yemen's northern province of Al-Jawf, Houthi-run media said. The Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV said Saudi warplanes struck telecommunications towers in an area in Al-Jawf along Yemen's northern border with...

Tokyo: Japan's weather agency warned of heavy rain, strong winds, flooding and landslides as a large and powerful typhoon moves toward the country's eastern Pacific coast Monday. As of 10 a.m. local time, Typhoon Dujuan, located about 100 km west-southwest of Hachijo Island in the...

New York: External Affairs Minister has arrived here for the high-level United Nations General Assembly session this week with an agenda tightly packed with scores of meetings, bilateral and multilateral, with leaders of countries who are streaming here. He was received on arrival by a...

Washington: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he and US President Donald Trump had agreed to meet in New York, and said Ukraine was ready to take serious steps towards peace in coordination with the American team. “We agreed to meet in New York, and...

Kathmandu: An Indian-German climber and his Nepali Sherpa guide have died after an avalanche struck their tent at Camp 3 of Mount Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest peak, a company official said Sunday. Dhruva Jyoti Guha and Fursemba Sherpa had advanced towards a higher camp from...

Cairo: Saudi Arabia Saturday confirmed that Yemen's Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that has opened a new front in the Iran war. The statement by...

Moscow: Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections. Moscow's mayor described the wave of drones as the...

New York: NASA has an "incredible" partnership with ISRO and is looking forward to more collaboration, the US agency's Indian-American senior official Amit Kshatriya has said. "We already have incredible collaboration with ISRO," Kshatriya, NASA's Associate Administrator and Chief Engineer, told PTI in an exclusive...