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International Desk International military drills have been launched in Russia’s Far East, with countries including China and India taking part. The US has voiced concern over Moscow’s ability to get other nations to participate in the exercises. The opening ceremony of the Vostok 2020 strategic exercises took place at a military range in Russia’s Primorsky Region on Wednesday, the Defense ...

International Desk Moscow thinks that the passage of two US Navy ships in the Taiwan Strait is a provocation which does not facilitate the bolstering of security in the region, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday. “We consider the August 28 passage of two US Navy ships through the waters of the Taiwan Strait ...

International Desk Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s mother Paola Maino passed away at her home in Italy on Saturday and her funeral took place on Sunday, the Congress said in New Delhi. The Congress president had left on August 23 to visit her ailing mother, who was in her 90s. “Smt. Sonia Gandhi’s mother, Mrs. Paola Maino passed away at her ...

International Desk United Nations General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid arrived in India on Sunday to meet the newly elected Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra, ANI reported. Taking to Twitter, Shahid said that he will also meet UN Resident Coordinator in India, Shombi Sharp during his two-day visit. The visit of Shahid, who is also the ...

International Desk A journalist was shot dead Monday afternoon in southern Mexico, authorities said, shortly after posting online about the disappearance eight years ago of 43 students from a nearby area. Fredid Roman, who published his work on various social media pages and contributed to a local newspaper, was found dead in his car in the city of Chilpancingo, the ...

International Desk Former US President Donald Trump has asked a judge to freeze a justice department investigation of files seized from his home in an FBI search. In a lawsuit, his legal team asked that an independent lawyer be appointed to oversee documents that agents removed from Mar-a-Lago in Florida this month. Eleven sets of classified files were taken from ...

International Desk Indian Coast Guard rescued 17 more Bangladeshi fishermen from the Bay of Bengal Sunday after rescuing 10 fishermen Saturday amid rough seas and strong winds. In three operations, the ICG has rescued 27 Bangladeshi fishermen so far in its continuous effort to provide assistance at sea during inclement weather. The search for missing Bangladeshi fishermen is in progress, ...

International Desk Federal prosecutors said Friday they have arrested the attorney general in Mexico’s previous administration on charges he committed abuses in the investigation of the 2014 disappearances of 43 students from a radical teacher college. Jesús Murillo Karam served as attorney general from 2012 to 2015, under then President Enrique Peña Nieto. The office of the current attorney general, ...

International Desk At least eight people were confirmed dead in an Islamist militant attack on a hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, a security official said Saturday, as Somali forces continued to battle gunmen holed up inside the building. “The security forces continued to neutralise terrorists who have been cordoned inside a room in the hotel building, most of the people ...

Internatioanl Desk A rocket attack on a crowded market in a town held by Turkey-backed opposition fighters in northern Syria killed 15 people on Friday and wounded dozens, an opposition war monitor and a paramedic group said. The attack on the town of al-Bab came days after a Turkish airstrike killed at least 11 Syrian troops and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters. ...