Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada adopted a resolution on holding the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Kyiv in the period from May 22 to 25, 2020, according to KyivPost ...

Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer, will remain active in the debt markets after its debut $12 billion bond earlier this month, which was “only the beginning”, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Wednesday, according to Reuters ...

Turkey on Tuesday celebrated the 99th anniversary of the first season of its Grand National Assembly and also National Sovereignty and Children’s Day, Anadolu Agency reported. Senior politicians, including Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop, Republican ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that both Pakistan and Iran are committed to make their bilateral relations stronger, and added that no one can affect their brotherly ties, the Dispatch News Desk (DND) news agency reported ...

The number of people killed in a series of explosions that took place on Sunday in Sri Lanka has reached 290, the Hindustan Times newspaper informed on Monday citing police sources. Around 500 people have been injured. A series of eight explosions in the island country during Easter celebrations on Sunday targeted churches ...

Showman Volodymyr Zelensky gets 73% of the vote in the second round of Ukraine's presidential election, whereas incumbent head of state Petro Poroshenko has 25.5%, according to the National Exit Poll conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, according to Ukrinform news agency ...

At least seven people were killed and 30 others injured Sunday when a passenger bus collided head-on with a truck in northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said, according to Xinhua. The accident took place on Agra-Lucknow expressway in Mainpuri district, 256 km west of Lucknow, the capital ...

At least 52 people have been killed and hundreds injured after explosions in three churches and three hotels in and around the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, according to sources. The blasts hit several high-end hotels and a church in Colombo ...

The second round of regular Ukrainian presidential elections kicked off on Sunday, according to Ukrinform news agency. The voting stations will work from 8:00 to 20:00 local time in Ukraine and foreign countries. There are two candidates in a voting paper as showman ...

Four Turkish soldiers were martyred Friday during operations against terrorists in the Turkey-Iraq border area, Anadolu Agency reported. Six soldiers were also wounded during the operations, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said in a statement early Saturday ...

Japan is in talks with Washington to use a U.S. airbase during 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in the capital Tokyo, local media reported on Friday. “The [Japanese] government has asked Washington to open the U.S. Air Force base's runway to commercial flights ...

The total trade volume of goods between China and the Belt and Road (B&R) Countries exceeded six trillion U.S. dollars from 2013 to 2018, according to CGTN. The average annual growth rate of trade between China and B&R countries hit four percent during the 2013-2018 period ...

Twelve coaches of the Howrah-New Delhi Poorva Express derailed near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh early on Saturday, injuring at least 14 people, railway officials said, according to The New Indian Express newspaper. The train was going to New Delhi when the incident occurred near Rooma railway station ...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Volker Turk of Austria as Assistant Secretary-General for Strategic Coordination in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. He will succeed Fabrizio ...

The Parliament in Budapest has been ranked among the top ten tourist attractions around the globe, on a list compiled by world luggage storage network Stasher, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal ...

The defense chiefs of Japan and the Philippines have agreed to continue cooperation in a variety of areas, according to NHK World. Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana held talks in ...

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake jolted a sea area near Hualien County in Taiwan at 1:01 p.m. Thursday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), Xinhua reports ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says resuming a China-backed rail project will boost investment, create jobs, and result in economic growth. Last year, Mahathir suspended the construction of a railway connecting Malaysia's west coast and its eastern ...

Twenty-six human skeletons, thought to be about 3,000 years old, have been found during water pipe excavation work, BBC reported. The discovery of the Oxfordshire settlement, believed to be from the Iron Age and Roman periods, was made ...