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Kyiv, Feb 25 (UNI) The Irish government is planning to supply aging Giraffe Mark IV air defence radar systems to Ukraine, The Irish Times newspaper reported, citing sources. Ireland has seven Giraffe systems, the report said on Monday, adding that it is not known yet whether the country plans to hand over all or just…

Johannesburg, Feb 24 (UNI) China calls for establishing a fair and equitable global governance system and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks…

Ankara, Feb 24 (UNI) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to receive Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is currently on a visit to Ankara, the Turkish leader’s administration told Sputnik on Monday. “The president’s schedule for Monday includes a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov,” the administration said. The meeting is scheduled…

Kabul, Feb 24 (UNI) A British couple in their seventies have been arrested by the Taliban in Afghanistan, media reports said. Peter Reynolds, 79, and his wife Barbie, 75, were returning to their home in Bamiyan on February 1, when they were detained, the BBC reported. The couple has been running training projects in Afghanistan…

Beijing, Feb 24 (UNI) Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group will invest more than 380 billion yuan (about $53 billion) in building cloud and hardware infrastructure for artificial intelligence, the Xinhua news agency reports. Chinese publication Penpai noted that these investments were a record volume of investments by Chinese private enterprises in the creation of cloud…

Washington, Feb 24 (UNI) US President Donald Trump has appointed right-wing commentator Dan Bongino as deputy director of the FBI, media reports said. Trump posted on social media that Bongino was “a man of incredible love and passion for our Country” and would serve under newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel, the BBC reported. Bongino,…

Moscow, Feb. 23 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday vowed to enhance the combat potential and effectiveness of Russia’s armed forces while ensuring its military is equipped with modern weaponry. In a video speech on Defender of the Fatherland Day, which falls on Sunday, Putin outlined a strategic vision for strengthening national defense amid…

Moscow, Feb 23 (UNI) NATO is becoming a means of containing the United States itself due to the contradictions between the European elites and Washington, the deputy director general of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and member of the Russian Security Council’s science board, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Alexander Yakovenko told Sputnik. “Having lost support…

Kabul, Feb 22 (UNI) Afghan interim government’s Acting Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, left Kabul for Uzbekistan, aiming to enhance bilateral relations in various sectors, the office of the acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs said in a statement on Saturday. Leading a high-ranking delegation, Barader would meet Uzbek…

Jerusalem, Feb 22 (UNI) The body of Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas, which was handed over to Israel on Friday night by Hamas via the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza, was confirmed by forensic analysis, Israel’s state-owned Kan TV News and other leading media outlets reported on Saturday. After being handed over…