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NEW DELHI | Xinhua | Both the black boxes of Air India flight 171, including the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR), have been found, P.K. Mishra, principal secretary to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said in an official statement late on Sunday. According to the Hindustan …

MOSCOW | TASS | Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) CEO Kirill Dmitriev has said that Russia could play a key role in mediating the conflict between Iran and Israel. Russia could play a key role in mediating the Iranian-Israeli conflict, Dmitriev said on the social network X, commenting on US …

JERUSALEM | Xinhua |  Israeli Air Force aircraft struck more than 80 sites across the Iranian capital, Tehran, over the past day, the Israeli military’s spokesman, Effie Defrin, said on Sunday, as Israel continued airstrikes across the Islamic Republic for a third consecutive day. The wave of attacks began at …

Washington, D.C. | THE INDEPENDENT | One-third (34%) of all global forest lost between 2001 and 2024 is likely permanent — meaning trees in those areas are unlikely to grow back naturally — according to a new analysis by World Resources Institute (WRI) and Google DeepMind. The report says  the …

NEW DELHI, INDIA | Xinhua | India’s federal civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu Saturday said keeping in view the utmost seriousness of the incident, another high-level committee has been formed to probe the deadly plane crash in the western state of Gujarat. The committee, according to Kinjarapu, will …

According to the The Washington Post, the list of countries, whose citizens may face the ban for receiving US visas or other restrictions, comprise 25 African countries WASHINGTON, D.C. | TASS | The administration of US President Donald Trump may ban or restrict the entry to the United States for …

WASHINGTON, D.C. | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump said he had a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday over the tensions in the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine peace talks, and both of them agreed that “this war in Israel-Iran should end.” “He feels, as do …

TEHRAN | Xinhua |  Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Saturday that the country has not yet decided whether to take part in the sixth round of indirect talks with the United States scheduled to be held in Oman on Sunday. In an interview with state-run IRIB TV, …

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL | Xinhua | Israel on Friday launched a large-scale “preemptive, precise, combined” strike on Iranian military and nuclear sites, prompting retaliatory attacks from Tehran. Analysts warn that the attacks could dramatically deteriorate the already volatile situation in the Middle East and ignite a wider regional war. LARGE-SCALE RAIDS …

WASHINGTON | TASS & XINHUA |  US President Donald Trump stated that he had already warned Iran of consequences in case it refuses to conclude an agreement on its nuclear dossier, he recalled on Truth Social. “There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to …