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It wasn't immediately clear what North Korea launched on Wednesday morning or at what stage it had an apparent failure.

Crude prices were also pressured by a ramp-up in new coronavirus cases in major consumer China and over concerns about near-term demand expressed by oil exporter group OPEC.

Asked during her briefing on Tuesday about reports that India was planning to buy "discounted crude oil' from Russia, she said, "Our message to any country continues to be that obviously abide by the sanctions that we have put in place and recommended."

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 79,586,694 and 966,386, according to the CSSE.

"To make sure Putin and his enablers are held accountable, Canada has imposed severe sanctions on 15 more Russian officials - including government and military elites who are complicit in this illegal war," Trudeau said in a tweet.

New York: Scientists at the University of Texas have developed a vaccine that could protect against the deadly Nipah virus in just three days. Nipah is a zoonotic virus (transmitted from animals to humans), which can be spread through contaminated food or directly between humans on exposure to secretions. The virus had three outbreaks in […]

Islamabad: Pakistans top military brass on Tuesday urged the relevant international fora to take a serious view of the “accidental firing” of a missile by India despite New Delhis public admission that it was a “mistake”, Express Tribune reported. The corps commanders, who met in Rawalpindi at the army’s General Headquarters, warned that such dangerous […]

New Delhi: The Indian Government is likely to fulfil its promise of raising its renewable energy capacity from the current 10 Gigawatt (GW) to the targeted 500 GW by 2030, said a report in Saudi publication on Monday. India is one of the few countries that not only followed their commitments done at the Paris […]

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has submitted a draft bill in Parliament calling for the extension of a martial law for another 30 days in the country as Russia continues its military onslaught against Kiev. According to the Verkhovna Rada, or Parliament, the bill presented on Monday suggests the extension of the law from 5.30 […]

United Nations: UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid on Monday said that the next UN Secretary-General should be female. Just four women have been elected president of the General Assembly in its 76 sessions. However, no woman has ever been chosen as the secretary-general. This needs to be corrected, Shahid told the opening of the […]

Beijing: The United States must fully explain its “military-biological activities” abroad, including ones in Ukraine, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said on Monday. “If the US wants to prove the sincerity of its activities, why does not it open these biological laboratories for independent research by international experts?” Zhao told reporters, commenting on the […]

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 79,517,492 and 967,552, according to the CSSE.

In a tweet on Sunday night, Obama said: "I just tested positive for Covid. I've had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise. Michelle and I are grateful to be vaccinated and boosted, and she has tested negative.

I reiterate that if you do not close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian missiles fall on your territory, on NATO territory, on the homes of NATO citizens.

The accident occurred on Saturday on the Ontario highway and two injured students were rushed to the hospital.

"I've had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise," Obama tweeted on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported.

New Delhi:US journalist, Brent Renaud, has been shot dead in the town of Irpin outside Kyiv, police say, BBC reported. Kiev’s police chief Andriy Nebytov said he had been targeted by Russian soldiers. Two other journalists were injured and taken to hospital. It is the first reported death of a foreign journalist covering the war […]

In late February, Google had earlier announced that it will be cutting down on advertisements and media from the Russian Federation as a response to the country's invasion of Ukraine, reports GizmoChina.

According to GSM Arena, this update comes as part of Google's Play Services and reportedly, the company is enabling it at the request of the Ukrainian government.

Today, President Biden authorized $200 million for additional arms and equipment to Ukraine. This unprecedented fourth drawdown in less than one year brings the total U.S. security assistance to Ukraine to over $1.2 billion since January 2021

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 79,508,508 and 967,158, according to the CSSE.

Rome: Reversing a trend of several weeks of improvement, Italy’s Covid-19 situation is worsening again, the country’s Health Ministry said. This week, the transmission rate in Italy increased to 0.83 from 0.75 a week earlier. This rate, also referred to as R0, shows how many cases on average an infected person will cause during their […]

New Delhi: Russia has said that convoys carrying foreign weapons to Ukraine will become “legitimate targets” for the Russian armed forces. Sergei Ryabkov, the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister, said Russia has warned the United States of the consequences of arms transfers to Ukraine. Convoys with foreign weapons recklessly supplied to Ukraine will become legitimate targets […]

Washington: Condemning Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, David Gilmour and Pink Floyd took a major step as they stripped a large portion of their music catalogue from streaming services in Russia and Belarus. “To stand with the world in strongly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the works of Pink Floyd, from 1987 onwards, and all […]