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DUBAI : Emirates Flight Catering (EKFC), one of the world’s largest catering operations, has inked an agreement with Mallaghan, Al-Futtaim Auto and Machinery Company (FAMCO) and Volvo to purchase 53 aircraft catering trucks, an investment of USD $16 million,...

DHAKA : Manufacturing of the first RITM-400 reactor, the most powerful in the world, has been completed by Rosatom. The reactor will be used in the nuclear icebreaker Rossiya. The icebreaker will have two such reactors, according to a...

MORRISTOWN : US President Donald Trump issued a rare rebuke to Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Sunday, saying he was "not happy" with him after Moscow launched a record number of drones against Ukraine, killing 13 people across the...

WASHINGTON : Donald Trump said Russia and Ukraine would "immediately" start peace talks after he spoke with Vladimir Putin on Monday, despite the Russian leader rebuffing the US president's call for an unconditional truce. Trump framed the two-hour conversation as...

WASHINGTON : US President Donald Trump will hold a phone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday as part of his long-running effort to end the war set off by Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Trump had vowed during the...

WASHINGTON : A mega-bill central to US President Donald Trump's domestic agenda cleared a key hurdle Sunday, progressing out of the House Budget Committee after several lawmakers holding up the legislation dropped their opposition. Trump is pushing to usher into...

MEXICO CITY : At least 22 people were wounded, three of them critically, when a Mexican Navy training ship slammed into the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Saturday, the navy said in a statement. "No personnel fell into...

LONDON : Severe storms that swept through the US states of Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia left more than 25 people dead, laying waste to local communities and cutting off electricity to nearly 200,000, authorities said Saturday. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear...

JERUSALEM : The Israeli military said Saturday it had launched "extensive strikes" as part of a fresh offensive in Gaza, after rescuers reported 100 people killed in the besieged Palestinian territory. The army said on Telegram it had begun the...

ISTANBUL : Turkey's foreign minister was on Thursday meeting with the Russian delegation that is in Istanbul for their first direct peace talks with Ukraine in three years, a ministry source said. "The meeting between Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and...