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WASHINGTON, May 1-- The war of words between Washington and Moscow escalated on Wednesday over the latest situation in Venezuela. On Tuesday, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, who had proclaimed himself as the interim president, reportedly called on the Venezuelan people and military to take to the streets...

LONDON, May 1  -- Downing Street said Wednesday in a statement that Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson had been sacked by the Prime Minister for "unauthorized disclosure of information". A Downing Street spokesperson said, "The Prime Minister has this evening asked Gavin Williamson to leave the Government, having...

MOSCOW, May 1 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday denounced Washington's support for the Venezuelan opposition in their attempt to seize power as an intervention in the country's internal affairs. In a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Lavrov noted the latest situation...

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- U.S. media reported Wednesday that the Trump administration has not reached a consensus on whether to engage in military intervention in Venezuela to support the opposition leader Juan Guaido. According to a report of the Washington Post, as the Maduro government remains intact after an...

BEIJING, April 29 -- A joint military exercise with the Chinese and Russian navies has begun in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, marking the second time that both navies have met at the port of Qingdao since the launch of the annual drill mechanism in 2012. The Chinese PLA Navy sent a warm welcome to the...

Phnom Penh , April 30 – Interior Ministry spokesperson Khieu Sopheak said Tuesday that the USD 3.5 million confiscated from three Chinese at Phnom Penh International Airport now belongs to the state-property thus preserved at the National Bank of Cambodia. Phnom Penh municipal court investigating judge Ros Samedy,...

Phnom Penh , April 30 – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation, speaking in a meeting on Tuesday at the Peace Palace Phnom Penh. Aung San Suu Kyi informed the Premier that the three-day visit to Cambodia is her first...

BERLIN, April 24 -- An unexploded World War II bomb was discovered and later defused on Wednesday in Cologne, forcing 2,500 residents to evacuate, according to the official twitter account of the city of Cologne. The bomb was discovered Wednesday afternoon and an area of 500 meters in radius had been cordoned...

TRIPOLI, April 25 -- Libya's UN-backed Prime Minister Fayez Serraj denied calling for ceasefire between the government and the east-based army, as both parties continue fighting for control over the capital Tripoli, the government spokesperson said Wednesday. "The Head of the Presidential Council of the Government...

BEIJING, April 25 -- China will further promote international space cooperation to make concrete contributions to the realization of sustainable development goals set by the United Nations, a senior official with the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Wednesday. China is to build a new type of...

COLOMBO, April 25 -- Following Sunday's terror attacks in Sri Lanka, the police said 16 more suspects were arrested in special operations conducted in the early hours of Thursday and one of those taken into custody is suspected to be linked to a terrorist group. The police said 76 suspects have been taken into...

SYDNEY, April 23 -- For almost eight decades, the final resting place of the SS Iron Crown has remained one of the great Australian maritime mysteries. But on Tuesday, Australia's peak science body the CSIRO, along with the Australian National Maritime Museum have finally uncovered the watery grave of the ill-fated...

MANILA, April 23 -- The death toll from Monday's 6.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the Zambales province in the Philippine main Luzon Island has risen to 16, the government said on Tuesday. Ricardo Jalad, the executive director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC), said...

WASHINGTON, April 17 -- A U.S. rocket was launched on Wednesday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore, carrying cargo with the space agency's resupply mission for the International Space Station (ISS). The Antares rocket built by Northrop Grumman lifted off at 4:46 p.m. EDT, carrying the...

KATHMANDU, April 18 -- Nepal's first ever satellite was launched into space on Thursday morning, Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli confirmed here. Nepali Prime Minister Oli expressed happiness over Nepal's entry into the global space age while thanking all those involved in developing the first ever Nepali satellite. The...

TAIPEI, April 8 -- A Cathay Dragon plane carrying 317 passengers bound for Hong Kong had to make an emergency landing in Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan Monday morning after one of its engines started spewing smoke over suspected collision with birds. Cathay Dragon flight KA451 made an emergency landing at...

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who oversaw President Donald Trump's bitterly contested immigration policies during her tumultuous 16-month tenure, resigned on Sunday amid a surge in the number of migrants at the border with Mexico. A senior administration official said...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, April 8 -- One police officer was killed and seven people were wounded in a bomb attack in Jalalabad, a city in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, a local source said. "An improvised explosive device (IED) struck a police van running near the provincial Women Affairs Department and private...

DHAKA, April 8 -- Customs officials at Bangladesh's second largest airport in the seaport city of Chattogram on Monday morning seized 200 gold bars weighing over 23 kilograms, an official said. The Customs Intelligence Department official who preferred to be unnamed told Xinhua that "We've found 200 gold bars...

SEOUL, April 8 -- Cho Yang-ho, chairman of South Korea's biggest air carrier Korean Air, died Monday of a chronic illness at the age of 70. Cho passed away early Monday morning (South Korea time) at a hospital in the United States, after suffering from a lung disease. He stayed in Los Angeles for the treatment...