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Kremlin stresses peacekeepers can only enter Karabakh if Armenia, Azerbaij
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 30 (ANI/Sputnik): Peacekeepers can only enter Karabakh if both Armenia and Azerbaijan give their consent, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
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UN chief welcomes Armenia-Azerbaijan agreement on ceasefire
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], October 26 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the joint statement on Sunday by the United States, Armenia and Azerbaijan announcing that a previously reached humanitarian cease-fire agreement will take effect at 8 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) on Monday,
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Afghan forces arrest IS, Taliban 'officials' in Nangarhar Province
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Afghan forces have arrested Taliban and Islamic State (IS, terror group, banned in Russia) "officials" in eastern Nangarhar province, the governor's spokesman Ataullah Khogyani said on Sunday.
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Poland President Andrzej Duda tests positive for COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Warsaw [Poland], October 24 (ANI): Polish President Andrzej Duda tested positive for the coronavirus, presidential spokesman Blazej Spychalski wrote on Twitter on Saturday, reported TASS.
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9 people killed in roadside bombings of Afghanistan's Ghazni
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 24 (ANI): At least nine people, including eight civilians, were killed in two roadside bombings in Ghani city on Saturday, informed Wahidullah Jumazada, spokesman for Ghazni governor.
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Taliban kill six security personnel guarding Kamal Khan dam
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 24 (ANI): Taliban killed six security personnel protecting Kamal Khan hydroelectric and irrigation dam in the southwestern province of Nimroz on Friday evening, said Nizam Khpulwak, spokesman for National Water Management Authority.
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France disbands Islamist Group in wake of teacher murder case in Paris
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Paris [France], October 21 (ANI/Sputnik): The government of France has ordered the dissolution of the Sheikh Yassin Islamist association, whose founder, Abdelhakim Sefrioui, is currently in custody as a suspect in the case of the brutal killing of a history teacher in Paris, French governmen
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UN may close 26 aid programmes in Yemen by 2021 due to lack of funds: Spok
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [US], October 20 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Nations will be forced to reduce or shut down 26 humanitarian programs in Yemen by the end of this year unless additional funding is received to respond to the country's deteriorating humanitarian crisis, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric s
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Flood death toll in Cambodia rises to 25
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Phnom Penh [Cambodia], October 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Flash floods in Cambodia have so far claimed 25 lives and forced the evacuation of 37,396 people, Seak Vichet, a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said on Monday.
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Sudan opens inquiry into murder of 8 people at violent protests in Kassala
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Sudan has launched an investigation into the killing of eight people as a result of recent violent clashes between the security forces and demonstrators following the dismissal of Saleh Ammar, the governor of the eastern province of Kassala, the Inf
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4 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban car bomb attack in Helmand
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], October 7 (ANI/Sputnik): Four Afghan soldiers were killed and three others injured in a car bomb attack that the Taliban radical movement carried out against a security post of the National Army in the southern Helmand province, Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial
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ISS to lower orbit before arrival of Soyuz spacecraft with crew
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], October 7 (ANI/Sputnik): The orbital altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) is to be reduced by 1.3 kilometres (0.8 miles) before the arrival of the superfast Soyuz spacecraft with a crew, a spokesman for Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation told Sputnik.
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