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The eleventh round of interagency consultations between the Russian delegation, led by Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev, and the IAEA delegation headed by Director General Rafael Grossi, was held in Kaliningrad, Russia, a press release said. Alexander Trembitskiy, Head of...

PANAMA CITY : China is among parties interested in bidding to build two new ports on the Panama Canal, its administrator said Tuesday, despite US talk of retaking control of the vital trade route. US President Donald Trump made the...

KYIV : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday the "principles" of a revised US plan to end the war with Russia could lead to "deeper agreements" and that "much depends" on Washington. An original US plan to end almost...

KYIV : The United States pressed Ukraine to accept its proposals to end the war with Russia during talks in Geneva, a senior official told AFP, despite Kyiv's protests that the plan conceded too much to Moscow. The official, speaking...

UNITED NATIONS : Every 10 minutes last year a woman somewhere in the world was killed by a person close to her, the United Nations said Monday as it decried a lack of progress in the battle against femicide. Some...

Emirates SkyCargo, the cargo division of Emirates, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LODD Autonomous to explore next-generation air-cargo solutions, including autonomous drone delivery across the airline’s global network, a press release said. Under the MoU, both partners...

KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia says it is planning to block children under 16 from signing up to social media accounts next year, in a move to tighten access over child-safety concerns. Communications minister Fahmi Fadzil said Sunday the government was...

ISTANBUL : Turkey's Christian community, which hosts Pope Leo XIV this week, was a minority under the Ottoman Empire whose numbers have dwindled due to forced exiles and massacres. Today, it counts around 100,000 members spread across five denominations --...

WASHINGTON : The White House said Sunday that talks in Switzerland on a proposal to end the Ukraine war marked a "significant step forward," and reaffirmed that any eventual deal would "fully uphold" the war-wracked country's sovereignty. A joint US-Ukraine...

Keel-laying ceremony of the 6th universal nuclear-powered icebreaker Stalingrad under the project 22220 has begun in Baltic Shipyard of St. Petersburg, Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin took part via videoconference in the ceremony, a press release said. The ceremony took...