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TEHRAN: Some 40 new ships will be put into service with the Russian Navy in 2020, with the focus made on equipping it with unique hypersonic strike systems, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Main Navy Parade in St. Petersburg on Sunday. “This year, forty ships and vessels of various …

CHENGDU: Taking selfies and waving Chinese flags curious locals flocked to the US consulate in Chengdu on Sunday as officials prepared to remove its official plaque just days after Washington and Beijing ordered each other to close one of their diplomatic missions. Tensions between the two countries over trade and …

PYONGYANG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared an emergency and a lockdown in a border town after a person suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus returned from South Korea after illegally crossing the border, state media said on Sunday. If confirmed, it would be the first case …

TEXAS: : Authorities confirmed that one person had been shot and killed during a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, Texas on Saturday. Footage posted during a Facebook Live showed the moment when several shots rang out in the Texas capital as about 100 people marched and chanted, “Fists …

MOSCOW: Azerbaijanis and Armenians have engaged in a series of fights and violent rampages in Moscow, venting their anger over recent cross-border clashes between the two ex-Soviet nations. Moscow police said on Saturday they have detained over 30 people on charges of involvement in fights and disturbances. In St. Petersburg, …

ROME: New rules on wearing masks in England came into effect on Friday, with people entering shops, banks and supermarkets now required to wear face coverings, while Romania reported a record for daily infections and new cases nearly doubled in France. People in England can be fined as much as …

NEW DELHI: Indian and Chinese diplomats agreed on Friday to a fast pull back of troops eyeballing each other across a disputed border in the western Himalayas where 20 Indian soldiers died in a clash last month, the Indian government said. There were no shots fired during the June 15 …

BEIJING: China reported 24 new cases of COVID-19 for July 24 in the mainland, with 20 cases of the virus emerging in the country’s Xinjiang province. As per details, nine COVID-19 cases were reported in the northeastern province of Liaoning, while the remaining five were imported cases. China reported 74 …

NEW YORK: The United Nations has stressed that all countries must respect the safety of civilian air travel, referring to the recent harassment of an Iranian passenger plane by a pair of American warplanes. “As a matter of, of principle, the safety of civilian air travel should be respected by …

WASHINGTON: Pressure is growing in the United States on President Donald Trump to declassify the legal justification for a US drone attack, which killed top Iranian anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in January. For months, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), among others, has been working to unearth the national …