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His brutal but effective military campaign in Syria earned him the moniker of Gen. Armageddon. When Russian troops were forced to withdraw from the Kharkiv region in September-October 2022, President Vladimir Putin picked him as the commander of his “special military operation” in Ukraine. When he completed an orderly pull-back of some 30,000 Russian troops…
1,104 victims are still unidentified and the progress has been agonizingly slow. New York: Twenty-two years after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, the remains of two people who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center have been identified through DNA analysis, the authorities said ahead of the latest commemoration…
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In June, India and US agreed to terminate six outstanding disputes at World Trade Organization. (File) Washington: With India and the US announcing the resolution of their last trade dispute on poultry products at the WTO, New Delhi has agreed to reduce tariffs on certain American products like frozen turkey, frozen duck, fresh blueberries and…
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A shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, with no damage or casualties immediately reported. The tremor hit at 9:43 p.m. local time (1443 GMT) at a depth of 9.9 kilometres, according to the USGS. Indonesia’s geophysics agency (BMKG) reported no immediate tsunami but…
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Commercial vessels including vessels which are part of Black Sea grain deal wait to pass the Bosphorus strait off the shores of Yenikapi in Istanbul, Turkey. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The Kremlin said on Saturday it was sticking to its conditions for a return to the Black Sea grain deal which it quit in…
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In this April 21, 2019, file photo, Sri Lankan police officers inspect the site of an explosion at the Shangri-la hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka’s Defence Ministry on Saturday defended the country’s intelligence chief after he was accused by a British television channel as the plotter of the 2019…
“The longer it takes, the more people suffer,” said Zelensky. (File) Kyiv, Ukraine: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Friday that “slower” arms shipments from Western countries were threatening his counteroffensive, calling for more powerful and long-range weapons to push back Russian forces. Ukraine launched its counteroffensive in June after stockpiling Western weapons, but has made…
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The military has secured the area and the fragments will be analyzed, said defence ministry. (File) Buscharest, Romania: New fragments of a drone similar to those used by the Russian military were found on Romanian soil, the defence ministry said on Saturday, and President Klaus Iohannis said this indicated an unacceptable breach of Romania’s air…
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TOPSHOT – Ukrainian cadets attend a ceremony for taking the military oath at The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, in Kyiv, on September 8, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. More than 300 cadets took the oath of enlistment. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) | Photo…
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New Delhi: The G20 in India will be remembered for years to come, not only for the expected conclusions it reached but also the historic extras it generated — like bringing the African Union on the table and producing the global bio-fuel alliance, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said today. The Central theme of this…
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