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Tehran, Iran | Xinhua | An Iranian lawmaker said on Monday that the Western sanctions on Iran and Russia have brought the two sides closer to each other in trade and economy, official news agency IRNA reported. Iran and Russia are providing one another with the products they fail to have …

London, UK | Xinhua | Arabs are losing faith in Western democracy to deliver economic stability across the Middle East and North Africa, the BBC reported on Sunday, citing a latest survey. More than half of the 23,000 people interviewed across the region by the Arab Barometer network agree with the …

Colombo, Sri Lanka | Xinhua | Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has agreed to resign after party leaders in the parliament demanded both he and the president to resign, as protesters stormed the president’s residence and office on Saturday. A statement from the prime minister’s office said Wickremesinghe told …

San Fransisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Tesla CEO Elon Musk decided on Friday to terminate his 44 billion U.S. dollars deal to buy Twitter, blaming the company for withholding information on its number of spam and fake accounts. Musk’s lawyer claimed that Twitter failed to comply with its obligations in the …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | The United States has spent more than 250 million U.S. dollars on military biological activities in Ukraine since 2005, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday. The ministry has been studying the work of U.S.-funded biological weapons programs in Ukraine and other regions, and has recently obtained …

Kiev, Ukraine | Xinhua | The new aid of 1 billion euros that was approved by the European Parliament for Kiev on Thursday will be used to ensure Ukraine’s financial stability, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said. “The European Union (EU) Macro-Financial Assistance will be directed to the financing of priority …

Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being fatally shot on Friday by a gunman during a speech in the western city of Nara when campaigning for Sunday’s upper house election, local media reported. Abe, 67, fell to the ground and was seen bleeding after …

Moscow, Russia | Xinhua | Russia is open to peace talks, and the negotiations with Ukraine will get more difficult with time passing by, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. “We do not refuse peace negotiations, but those who refuse should know that the more time they waste, the more …

Tokyo, Japan | Xinhua | Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe collapsed and showed no sign of life after being shot twice on Friday when he was delivering a speech in the western city of Nara, local media reported. Abe fell to the ground and was seen bleeding after he …

Education is not a privilege, nor is it an opportunity, it is a human right United Nations | Xinhua | Academics, experts, government officials and representatives of educational organizations on Wednesday called for efforts and actions to improve the quality of education across the world and place student needs at the …