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Real Madrid head coach Zinedine Zidane says the La Liga giants are poised to offload Welsh star Gareth Bale in the coming days.The global network of Agence France-Presse covers 151 countriesIf you have news to share or a question, comment or suggestion, c...

MOSCOW, July 21 (KUNA) -- Millions of Ukrainians headed to polls stations Sunday, voting in snap parliamentary election. A total of 24 political parties and some 3,220 candidates from single-mandate Constituencies are running for the parliament. The Ukrai...

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind": it was with these words that Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon 50 years ago, an occasion celebrated by space enthusiasts globally Saturday.The global net...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Venezuelan Armed Forces detected a US Lockheed EP-3E signals reconnaissance plane over its territory, the country's defense ministry announced....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Two members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force's Quds base were killed in clashes with terrorists in Saravan region in the Southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan Sunday morning....

New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) BJP patriarch L K Advani and former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday paid homage to former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at her residence here. NCP leader Shanker Singh Vaghela also paid respects to Dikshit. ...

New Delhi, July 21 (PTI) Former Delhi BJP president Mange Ram Garg passed away at a city hospital here on Sunday morning.The demise of Garg, 83, was mourned by senior party leaders along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi who described him as a partyman wi...

Britain is looking into a series of options to respond to Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker, junior defence minister Tobias Ellwood said on Sunday when asked whether London was considering putting sanctions on Tehran. "Our first and most ...

Agartala, July 21 (PTI) Tight security arrangementshave been made for Tripura panchayat elections and more thanone thousand polling booths have been identified as"sensitive";, a senior police officer has said.Elections to the three-tier panchayat p...

A vast and "unique" trove of antique and Roman-era coins, unearthed in what was one of Hungary's wartime Jewish ghettos, is proving a conundrum for historians.The global network of Agence France-Presse covers 151 countriesIf you have news to s...

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind": it was with these words that Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon 50 years ago, an occasion celebrated by space enthusiasts globally Saturday.The global net...

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind": it was with these words that Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon 50 years ago, an occasion celebrated by space enthusiasts globally Saturday.The global net...

KUWAIT, July 21 (KUNA) -- The Meteorological Center is keen on providing the masses with transparent and accurate weather reports, said officials Sunday. Speaking to KUNA, officials from the Kuwait Meteorological Center -- affiliated with the Directorate ...

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Chennai, July 21: Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has been known to experiment with his deliveries and bowling action and he once again left the spectators perplexed while playing for the Dindigul Dragons against Chepauk Super Gillies in the season...

Longtime adversaries Cyprus and Turkey are locked in a tense "game of chicken" over the prospect of a multi-billion-dollar Mediterranean gas bonanza with neither side willing to capitulate, analysts say.The global network of Agence France-Presse c...

A vast and "unique" trove of antique and Roman-era coins, unearthed in what was one of Hungary's wartime Jewish ghettos, is proving a conundrum for historians.The global network of Agence France-Presse covers 151 countriesIf you have news to s...

(Eds: Addng details)New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen's residence permit has been extended for one year by the Union Home Ministry, officials said on Sunday.Taslima, a citizen of Sweden, has been getting residenc...

West Java Governor M Ridwan Kamil on Sunday started his one-week working visit to the United Kingdom and Sweden for an economic, cultural, and environment mission, including an endeavor to finalize an investment of turning ......

As of 12:00, the voter turnout in five out of 199 territorial electoral districts in Ukraine's snap parliamentary elections is 13.61%. — Ukrinform....

By Salem Al-Methen KUWAIT, July 21 (KUNA) -- Galvanized steel has been widely used in construction projects throughout Kuwait due to claims of cost-effectivity, renowned durability, and topnotch quality. The material is said to save up around 70 to 80 per...

Harare, July 21: Zimbabwe Cricket, which has been suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC), has announced that the national team will not travel to Bangladesh for the triangular series including Afghanistan in September....

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) State-run oil refiner CPC Corp., Taiwan, said it will cut its gasoline prices by NT$0.3 (US$0.01) per liter and diesel prices by NT$0.4 per liter this week, with the new prices to take effect Sunday at midnight....

The Indonesian Maritime Affairs and and Fisheries Ministry (KKP) is committed to reducing marine plastic debris by limiting singe-use plastics in fishing ports."The regulation has been made. We have selected plastics in ......

Taipei, July 21 (CNA) Taiwan's health authorities on Sunday warned that people traveling abroad this summer should be vigilant against mosquito-borne diseases like chikungunya and dengue fever, which have been on the rise in recent months....

Bank Indonesia (BI, the central bank) engages economic actors from Johor, Malaysia and Singapore in the Riau Islands Syariah and Halal Festival in Batam on Sunday.Head of Bank Indonesia's Riau Islands office Fadjar ......

Nove Mesto (Czech Republic), July 21: Ace Indian sprinter Hima Das continued her sensational sprint as she clinched her fifth gold in July by claiming the top honours in a 400-metre race in Czech Republic....

New Zealanders have handed over more than 10,000 guns, weapons parts and accessories in the first week of a buy-back scheme prompted by the country...

Aerial view of Kuwait City (Ayman Atallah KUNA)...

WASHINGTON, July 21 (KUNA) -- An excessive heat warning has been put in effect for the nation's capital due to a heatwave hitting several states across the US affecting over 100 million people. According to the National Weather Service, the temperatur...

Iran Crisis Adds to EU Burden for New U.K. Leader: Brexit Update...

New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen's residence permit has been extended for one year by the Union Home Ministry, officials said on Sunday.Taslima, a citizen of Sweden, has been getting residence permit on a contin...

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KUWAIT, July 21 (KUNA) -- The rate of the US Dollar was stable at KD 0.303, while the Euro went down to KD 0.340 compared to last Thursday, said the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) Sunday. The CBK added, in its daily bulletin, that the rate of the British Po...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Chief Commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces Mazloum Abdi warned Turkey against carrying out any military operation against the SDF in Eastern Euphrates, and said that any attack on any region in Eastern Euphrates will enggage all border ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari on Sunday unveiled 8 new drugs during his a visit to the knowledge-based companies in Alborz province near Tehran....

TEHRAN (FNA)- New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) tore into President Donald Trump at an immigration town hall Saturday, saying the president's immigration policies are "about ethnicity and racism"....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Mohammad Javad Zarif reminded British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt who had reached out to Zarif through telephone to discuss the seizure of a UK-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, that the seized vessel of London was violat...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that the seizure of a UK-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz was a response to Britain's piracy against a tanker of his country in the Strait of the Gibraltar....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Farsi-language accounts of 4 Iranian news outlets were suspended on Twitter, after they reported the seizure of a UK-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Lebanese media outlets reported that the positions of Hashd al-Shaabi (Iraqi popular forces) in Salahuddin province were attacked on Friday by an Israeli fighter jet....

Quneitra, SANA- SANA reporter said that the authorities concerned on Sunday found an amount of weapons, ammunition, medicines, Western-made bases of monitoring devices and Israeli-made vehicles left behind by terrorists in Quneitra countryside....

TEHRAN (FNA)- Why did the oceans warm and cool at such different rates in the early 20th century? New research points to an answer both as mundane as a decimal point truncation and as complicated as global politics. Part history, part climate science, ....