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London, Mar 3 (UNI) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Sunday that Britain will allow Ukraine to use 1.6 billion pounds (2 billion U.S. dollars) of British export finance to purchase more than 5,000 air defence missiles. “This will be vital for protecting critical infrastructure and strengthening Ukraine,” Starmer told a press conference following…

London, Mar 3 (UNI) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that he is still “ready to sign” a minerals deal with the United States. Despite a fractious meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump last week, he is still willing to have a “constructive dialogue” with the United States, Zelenskyy told BBC following a summit with…

Jerusalem, Mar 3 (UNI) India’s flagship carrier Air India resumed its flights to Israel on Sunday after a suspension of seven months. The operations resumed with a direct flight that took off from Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi and landed Sunday evening at Ben Gurion Airport outside Tel Aviv. Air India will now operate…

Moscow, Mar 2 (UNI) Following a spat between US President Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, major Norwegian oil company Haltbakk Bunkers refused to provide fuel to US military personnel based in Norway, as well as to arriving American ships, the UK Defence Journal reported. The publication said that shortly after the meeting between Trump and…

Charikar, Afghanistan, Mar 2 (UNI) Police have discovered a dozen anti-personnel mines and some ammunition in eastern Afghanistan’s Parwan province, said a statement from provincial police on Sunday. The anti-personnel mines and some unexploded devices, left over from the past wars, were discovered in the Rubat area outside the provincial capital Charikar City on Saturday…

Moscow, Mar 2 (UNI) The administration of US President Donald Trump wants a public apology from Volodymyr Zelenskyy after their spat at a meeting in the White House, Bloomberg reported, citing an unnamed European official. The meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy took place in Washington on Friday, and it turned into a spat. According to…

Jerusalem, Mar 2 (UNI) Hamas on Saturday released a video of Israeli-Argentine hostage Eitan Horn, who was kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, and has been held in the Gaza Strip ever since. The video, authorised by Horn’s family for release in Israeli media, shows Eitan, 38, parting ways with his elder brother Iair, who was…

Luanda, Mar 2 (UNI) The number of people killed in the latest cholera outbreak in Angola has risen to 201, the country’s Health Ministry announced. A total of 5,574 people have been infected since early January, the ministry said in a press release on Friday. Cholera cases have been reported in 13 of Angola’s 21…

Moscow, Mar 2 (UNI) Russia’s Progress MS-30 cargo spacecraft, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, successfully docked with the International Space Station on Sunday, Russia’s state space corporation Roscosmos said. Carrying a total of 2,599 kg of supplies, the Progress MS-30 delivered 1,179 kg of equipment, clothing, food supplies, and medical and hygiene products….

Los Angeles, Mar 2 (UNI) More than 1,000 fire hydrants across Los Angeles needed repair prior to the devastating wildfires in January, reported the Los Angeles Times Saturday. But the Los Angeles Fire Department did not inform the city’s Department of Water and Power (LADWP) until mid-February despite being aware of the issues months before,…