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Russia’s new supersonic Tu-160 passenger aircraft generates great interest globallyWealthy foreigners have already started ordering the Tu-160 civil supersonic aircraft. It is only a few companies in the world that can afford maintaining and operating such airliners, news agencies say. Foreigners specialists evinced great interest in an opportunity to remake supersonic military aircraft Tu-160 and […]

The death toll from a powerful suicide attack claimed by the Taliban in Kabul has risen to at least 103 people, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Kabul residents are grieving and the government has declared a day of mourning after the suicide bomb attack on Saturday in the city centre, which also wounded 191 people. Kabul was on […]

Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher on Sunday accused southern separatists of attempting a coup in the interim capital of Aden after they took over the government headquarters. A soldier from the United Arab Emirates stands guard next to a UAE military plane at the airport of Yemen’s southern port city of Aden August 8, […]

Ingvar Kamprad, the enigmatic founder of Swedish furniture giant IKEA, died aged 91 on Sunday, the company said. Ingvar Kamprad pictured at a reception at Stockholm’s royal palace in 2015. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT “Ingmar Kamprad has peacefully passed away in his home” in southern Sweden, IKEA announced on its Twitter account. “Ingvar will be very […]

Moscow, SANA – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the preparations for holding the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in the Russian city of Sochi. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Lavrov and Cavusoglu discussed in a phone call initiated by the Turkish side the details […]

By slapping Russia with new sanctions and restrictions, Washington only punishes US companies, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. Any attempt to browbeat Moscow into a policy change will be in vain, it stressed. The Russian Foreign Ministry building © Maxim Shemetov / Reuters Twenty-one individuals, all of them Russian or Ukrainian nationals, and nine […]

KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 40 people were killed and 140 others wounded on Saturday when a heavy bomb explosion occurred near the Jamuriat Hospital in Kabul, officials said. Nasrat Rahimi, Interior Ministry spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the explosion took place at a police checkpoint near the ministry’s old building, police headquarters and a High Peace Council office. […]