BANGKOK, April 27 (AP): A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison Wednesday in the first of several c
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Islamabad, April 27 (PTI): Scion of Pakistan's leading political dynasty, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, on Wednesday took oath as the foreign minister in the government led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at a c
Tehran, April 27 (AP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi expressed Wednesday his government's desire for closer cooperation with China in remarks made during a visit by the Chinese defence minister, state med
Beijing, April 27 (AP): Drone company DJI Technology Co has temporarily suspended business activities in Russia and Ukraine to prevent use of its drones in combat, in a rare case of a Chinese company pulling ou
Washington, April 27 (AP): Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long pr
Washington, April 26 (AP) Vice President Kamala Harris tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, the White House announced, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus even as the U.S. eases rest
Elon Musk to buy Twitter for $44B and take it private Tom Krisher and Matt O'Brien The Associated Press Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands to be the next owner of Twitter, having pledged roughly $44 billion
Beijing, April 26 (PTI) Authorities in the Chinese capital have rolled out mass Covid testing for nearly 21 million residents in most of the city, as they race to contain a fresh outbreak of the Omicron variant
Colombo/Vatican City, April 26 (PTI) Pope Francis has urged the Sri Lankan government to make public the truth behind the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks that killed nearly 270 people, saying it will bring pe
Bangkok, April 26 (AP) A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Tuesday postponed by a day delivering a verdict on the first of almost a dozen corruption cases filed against the country's former leader, Aung Sa
Washington, April 26 (AP) The longer Ukraine's army fends off the invading Russians, the more it absorbs the advantages of Western weaponry and training exactly the transformation President Vladimir Putin w
Seoul, April 26 (AP) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his nuclear forces at "maximum speed and threatened to use them if provoked in a speech he delivered during a military parade that feat
Kyiv, April 26 (AP) Russia's top diplomat warned Ukraine against provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict should not be underestimated as his country unleashed attacks against rail
Moscow, April 26 (AP) UN Secretary-General Ant nio Guterres has called for a cease-fire in Ukraine at his meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Guterres is visiting Moscow and is then schedule
Washington, April 25 (AP): Twitter's board is negotiating with CEO Elon Musk over his bid to buy the social media platform and a deal could be announced as early as Monday, according to media reports. Tw-
London, April 25 (PTI): The global military expenditure has crossed the USD 2 trillion mark for the first time, with the US, the world's largest economy, being the top spender, Sweden-based defence think-ta
PARIS, April 25 (AP): just five years as France’s president, Emmanuel Macron has gone from a young newbie in politics to a key world player and weighty decision-maker in the European Union who has been de
Stockholm, April 25 (AP) Two newspapers - one Swedish, the other one Finnish - are reporting that the governments of Sweden and Finland have agreed to submit NATO applications at the same time and that it will
Tokyo, April 25 (PTI) The world's oldest person from the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka died at the age of 119 on April 19, the government said on Monday. Kane Tanaka was born on January 2 in 1903
Near The Polish-Ukrainian Border, April 25 (AP) Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Monday after a secrecy-shrouded visit to Kyiv that Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensk
