WASHINGTON, Jul 13 : Anil Menon, a NASA astronaut of Indian descent, is set to embark on an eight-month mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan along with two Russian cosmonauts. The Roscosmos...
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KARACHI, Jul 13 : A 28-year-old Hindu doctor was on Monday killed during a robbery in Pakistan's Sindh province, police said. The incident took place in Karachi's posh Clifton area. Akash Chand was killed when firing took place outside a...
KATHMANDU, Jul 13: Nepal on Monday celebrated the birth anniversary of a 19th-century poet known for translating the Valmiki Ramayan by organising various programmes here. Bhanubhakta Acharya is widely revered as the first poet of the Nepalese language. Speaking at...
COLOMBO, Jul 13: India and Sri Lanka on Monday signed an agreement which will help Colombo secure a 600 million Sri Lankan rupee (USD 1.8 million) grant from New Delhi for supplying advanced medical equipment to the Base Hospital in...
WASHINGTON, July 13: President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States will take on the role of "the guardian" of the Strait of Hormuz, as Washington and Tehran continue to dispute control of the strategic waterway following a series...
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DUBAI, Jul 13 : US President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States is "reinstating" a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and will charge ships for safe passage, after another heavy exchange of fire threatened negotiations...
JAKARTA, Jul 13: A pickup truck carrying wedding guests was crushed between two trucks on a busy highway on Indonesia's main island of Java, killing 13 people and injuring five others, police said Monday. The crash occurred Sunday afternoon on...
KYIV, Jul 13: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due in Paris on Monday for talks with two dozen European leaders helping Kyiv fight Russia's invasion, with the war now in its fifth year. European foreign ministers were also meeting separately...
BRUSSELS, Jul 13: A top European Union official on Monday called for limits to be placed on children using social media as a special EU panel looking into the challenge recommended forbidding access for those under 13 until tech companies...
LONDON, Jul 13 : Britain's counter-terrorism police on Monday took charge of an ongoing investigation into the murder of a former Tory minister and outspoken far-right politician who was found dead in her home in south-west England. Ann Widdecombe, 78,...
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