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Islamabad: Pakistani airstrikes targeted multiple suspected hideouts of Pakistani Taliban inside Afghanistan early Monday, two days after insurgents killed seven soldiers in a suicide bombing and coordinated attacks in the northwest, two security officials said. There was no immediate comment by Pakistan's military, and the...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the US-led NATO military alliance against the deployment of troops in Ukraine, saying such a move would "be one step shy of a full-scale World War III". It is no secret that fighters from NATO nations are present...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin, delivering a "victory speech" at his presidential campaign headquarters in Moscow, has thanked citizens after preliminary results by the country's Central Election Commission (CEC) showed him securing his fifth term in office. Speaking in front of his supporters on Sunday...

New Delhi: India and the Maldives Sunday reviewed the ongoing deployment of Indian civilian technical personnel to enable the continued operation of Indian aviation platforms in the island nation. Both sides carried out the review at the third meeting of the high-level core group held...

Beijing: The Chinese military has reiterated its claim over Arunachal Pradesh, calling the area an “inherent part of China's territory", days after India rejected Beijing's objection to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the state. The Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang said...

Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday railed against growing criticism from the United States against his leadership amid the devasting war with Hamas, saying the pressure won't stop Israel from achieving “total victory”. In recent days, top officials from the US, Israel's staunchest...

Male: President Mohamed Muizzu has said the surveillance of the Maldives' territory should not concern any "external parties" as he announced measures to boost its defence forces, including the maiden deployment of drones to guard the archipelagic nation in the Indian Ocean. Muizzu's latest comments...

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he will pay a visit to Ukraine as quoted by media reports. Macron noted that his visit will take place when "specific proposals and specific solutions" are ready, Ukrainska Pravda reported. "I will tell you absolutely sincerely...

Islamabad: Pakistan has assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it does not plan to allocate an additional budget to settle the Rs 493 billion dues of Chinese power plants, media reported. The global lender is also questioning the efficacy of the power sector's anti-theft...

Moscow: Russian election authorities have said that about 160,000 cyberattacks on the country's remote electronic voting resources were blocked. The attacks were mainly directed toward the voting portal, with 30,000 attacks launched against the monitoring portal for the remote electronic voting system, Ella Pamfilova, head...