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Dubai: The drones that targeted the United Arab Emirates' Barakah nuclear power plant all came from Iraq, the country's Defence Ministry said Tuesday, likely signaling that Iranian-backed Shiite militias launched the assault. Such militias launched repeated drone attacks targeting Gulf Arab states after Israel and...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Tuesday said he was an hour away from making a decision to restart attacks on Iran, but put it off after receiving a call from interlocutors, including Qatar and the UAE, on Tehran being "reasonable" in the peace talks. "I...

Damascus: A bomb exploded outside a Defence Ministry building in the Syrian capital Tuesday, killing one soldier and wounding about a dozen other people, the ministry and state media reported. The Defence Ministry said in a terse statement that soldiers discovered a bomb that was...

Beijing: Russian President Vladimir Putin is travelling to China to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, less than a week after US President Donald Trump wrapped up his own trip to Beijing. Putin is scheduled to be in China Tuesday and Wednesday in a visit...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the BRICS summit in New Delhi September 12 and 13, according to the presidential aide. President Putin visited India in December 2025 for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit. Orissa POST - Odisha’s No.1 English Daily

Oslo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday discussed ways to further strengthen bilateral ties in areas such as trade and renewable energy during separate meetings with his counterparts from Iceland, Finland and Denmark. PM Modi held the meetings ahead of the 3rd India-Nordic Summit. During his...

New Delhi: Field Marshal Asim Munir is in complete control of Pakistan. The country may be ruled by a democratic government, but the fact is that the Pakistan Army under Munir is in complete control. However, even as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Asim Munir...

Washington: President Donald Trump said he is holding off on a military strike on Iran planned for Tuesday because "serious negotiations" are underway. Trump's announcement in a social media post Monday came as he had threatened that the clock was ticking for Iran to strike...

Oakland: A federal court Monday dismissed claims filed against OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to remain a nonprofit dedicated to guiding artificial intelligence's development for the good of humanity. Musk, the world's...

Washington: The US has approved the possible sale of support services and related equipment for Apache helicopters to India for an estimated cost of USD 198.2 billion, the US Department of State said. The Department of State also approved a possible sale of sustainment support...