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  • 'Connectivity is backbone of India-Iran relationship': Iran's envoy to India

    Date: 2024-07-06 07:10:25 GMT - India - World - SN:6 - ID:10773210

    NEW DELHI, July 6 (MENA) - Iran's Ambassador to India Iraj Elahi emphasized that connectivity is the backbone of the India-Iran relationship, adding that culturally both the countries have agreed to strengthen relations, ANI News said. Ahead ....

  • Japan's household spending falls 1.8% in May on higher prices

    Date: 2024-07-05 22:01:27 GMT - Japan - World - SN:61 - ID:10773087

    TOKYO, July 5 (MENA) - Japan's household spending in May dropped a real 1.8 percent from a year earlier, the first decline in two months, as rising prices prompted people to cut back on food outlays and a weak yen discouraged travel abroad, ....

  • White House says Hungary's Orban trip to Moscow will not advance peace for Ukraine

    Date: 2024-07-05 21:33:59 GMT - USA - World - SN:60 - ID:10773080

    WASHINGTON, July 5 (MENA) - The Biden administration on Friday joined a chorus of criticism against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s trip to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying it would do nothing to end the ....

  • UK PM Keir Starmer appoints cabinet ministers

    Date: 2024-07-05 17:09:03 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:48 - ID:10772868

    LONDON, July 5 (MENA) - New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer named Rachel Reeves as Britain's first female finance minister and Angela Rayner as his deputy on Friday (June 27) as he began putting together the team that will help him deliver on his ....

  • King Charles III accepts Sunak's resignation

    Date: 2024-07-05 12:22:13 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:33 - ID:10772602

    LONDON, July 5 (MENA) - King Charles III of the United Kingdom accepted on Friday the country's outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's resignation, Sky News quoted the Buckingham Palace as saying in a statement. "The Right Honourable Rishi Sunak ....

  • Russia defense ministry says destroyed 50 Ukrainian drones

    Date: 2024-07-05 09:46:26 GMT - Russia - World - SN:21 - ID:10772359

    MOSCOW, July 5 (MENA) – Russian forces destroyed 50 Ukrainian drones both in Russian territory and areas of Ukraine it says it has annexed, Moscow's defense ministry said Friday. The ministry said the drones were destroyed over Krasnodar and ....

  • Death count in Assam floods rises to 52, over 21 lakh affected in 29 districts

    Date: 2024-07-05 07:31:35 GMT - India - World - SN:15 - ID:10772289

    NEW DELHI, July 5 (MENA) – The flood situation in Assam is critical with a total death toll of 52 and about 21.13 lakh people are affected in 29 districts by the second wave of flood, NDTV reported. According to the flood report of Assam State ....

  • Russian army loses 1,110 more soldiers in Ukraine over past day

    Date: 2024-07-05 06:47:13 GMT - Ukraine - World - SN:12 - ID:10772277

    KIEV, July 5 (MENA) - The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to July 5, 2024 amount to nearly 548,580 troops, including another 1,110 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day. The General Staff of the Armed ....

  • Polls open in Iran’s presidential election runoff

    Date: 2024-07-05 06:43:44 GMT - Iran - World - SN:11 - ID:10772262

    TEHRAN, July 5 (MENA) – Iranians have headed to the polls in the runoff presidential election, a week after none of the candidates could secure the majority of votes in the snap election, Press TV reported. Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. local ....

  • UK prime minister accepts responsibility for historic Tory defeat

    Date: 2024-07-05 06:42:56 GMT - United Kingdom - World - SN:10 - ID:10772275

    LONDON, July 5 (MENA) - UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he accepts responsibility for the Conservative Party's catastrophic general election defeat, the BBC reported. Sir Keir Starmer has led the Labor Party to a landslide victory and ....

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