Tel Aviv, March 21 (IANS) US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will visit Israel on Friday and meet the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior leaders.Blinken will also be meeting senior E
Tokyo, March 20 (IANS): Seven people died after a South Korean-flagged tanker capsized on Wednesday in waters off the Japanese prefecture of Yamaguchi, local media reported.There were 11 non-Japanese crew on bo
New York, March 20 (IANS): US President Joe Biden's reelection campaign and a Democratic Party outfit are freezing donations totalling about $340,000 from an Indian American businessman amid controversies, loca
Tel Aviv, March 19 (IANS) The ongoing indirect peace talks in Qatar capital have hit a roadblock after Israel refused to budge on many demands put forward on behalf of HamasAccording to sources in the Israel de
Kiev, March 19 (IANS) Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba welcomed the decision of the European Union (EU) to allocate an additional 5 billion euros (about $5.44 billion) for military support to Ukraine, t
Moscow, March 18 (IANS) 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
Moscow, March 18 (IANS) Russia's incumbent President Vladimir Putin is projected to win his fifth term as head of state by a historic margin.According to Russia's CEC, almost 95 per cent of the votes have been
Tel Aviv, March 17 (IANS): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting criticised those "in the international community who are trying to stop the war now, bef
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin has accumulated more authority than any Soviet leader, save perhaps Stalin, as there is no Politburo or institutional checks, and he possesses the per
Moscow, March 17 (IANS) For the first time in history, voting in the Russian presidential election is taking place over three days -- from Friday to Sunday, media reported.It is the first presidential vote to t
Rome, March 16 (IANS) Antonio Tajani, Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, on Saturday rejected the idea raised by French President Emmanuel Macron of the possibility of sending Western troops to
Rawalpindi, March 16 (IANS) Seven Pakistan soldiers were killed, including two officers, in a militant attack in Ali area of North Waziristan district on Saturday, as per media reports.A group of six terrorists
Gaza, March 16 (IANS) At least 36 Palestinians were killed, and several others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, medical sources and eyewitnesses said
Washington, March 15 (IANS) The US district judge in Florida overseeing the federal criminal case regarding former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents has rejected one of his two motions t
Seoul, March 15 (IANS) South Korean and US warplanes staged a combined live-fire exercise against North Korean cruise missile and long-range artillery threats in waters off the west coast this week, officials s
Moscow, March 14 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin has encouraged country's citizens to participate in the upcoming presidential election, scheduled for March 15-17, local media reported."It is necessary
Seoul, March 14 (IANS) South Korea on Thursday renewed its stance that it does not recognise North Korea as a nuclear state.The foreign ministry made the comments in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin
Tokyo, March 13 (IANS): The inaugural rocket launch of Japanese company Space One failed on Wednesday as the Kairos rocket exploded seconds after lifting off, marking the first attempt from the country's privat
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS): Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda on Wednesday won third vote of confidence in the last 14 months.Speaker Devraj Ghimire said that PM Prachanda secured 157 vot
Warsaw, March 13 (IANS): Leonid Volkov, a long-time ally of the late Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has been attacked outside his home in Lithuania, the media reported.Volkov was assaulted with a ham