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BEIJING | Xinhua | The Standing Committee of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, will hold its 16th session in Beijing from June 24 to 27. This decision was made Monday during a meeting of the Council of Chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee, which was presided …

MOSCOW | Xinhua |  Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to discuss the situation in the Middle East and Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Monday. “Putin and Erdogan condemned Israel’s use of force against Iran, which violated the UN Charter and …

  DUBAI | TASS | The US is responsible for Israel’s aggression against Tehran, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said. “Contrary to all norms of international law, America allows Israel to commit aggression and attack our country,” he pointed out in an address to the country’s parliament. “We neither sought nor …

NEW DELHI | Xinhua | Both the black boxes of Air India flight 171, including the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR), have been found, P.K. Mishra, principal secretary to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said in an official statement late on Sunday. According to the Hindustan …

MOSCOW | TASS | Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev has said that Russia could play a key role in mediating the conflict between Iran and Israel. Russia could play a key role in mediating the Iranian-Israeli conflict, Dmitriev said on the social network X, commenting on US …

JERUSALEM | Xinhua |  Israeli Air Force aircraft struck more than 80 sites across the Iranian capital, Tehran, over the past day, the Israeli military’s spokesman, Effie Defrin, said on Sunday, as Israel continued airstrikes across the Islamic Republic for a third consecutive day. The wave of attacks began at …

Washington, D.C. | THE INDEPENDENT | One-third (34%) of all global forest lost between 2001 and 2024 is likely permanent — meaning trees in those areas are unlikely to grow back naturally — according to a new analysis by World Resources Institute (WRI) and Google DeepMind. The report says  the …

NEW DELHI, INDIA | Xinhua | India’s federal civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu Saturday said keeping in view the utmost seriousness of the incident, another high-level committee has been formed to probe the deadly plane crash in the western state of Gujarat. The committee, according to Kinjarapu, will …

According to the The Washington Post, the list of countries, whose citizens may face the ban for receiving US visas or other restrictions, comprise 25 African countries WASHINGTON, D.C. | TASS | The administration of US President Donald Trump may ban or restrict the entry to the United States for …

WASHINGTON, D.C. | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump said he had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday over the tensions in the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine peace talks, and both of them agreed that “this war in Israel-Iran should end.” “He feels, as do …