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WILMINGTON (US): As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, CIA Director William Burns said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putinis being "too confident" in his military's ability to grind Ukraine into submission. Burns, in a…

LONDON: Russia will stick to agreed limits on nuclear missiles and keep informing the United States about changes in its deployments, a senior defence official said on Wednesday, despite the suspension of its last remaining arms control…

VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog has found uranium enriched to 84% in Iran- very close to weapons grade - diplomats said on Monday, while the watchdog said that it was in talks with Tehran about recent findings there.Iran has been enriching…

KYIV/VOLGOGRAD: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged European leaders visiting Kyiv on Thursday to pile more sanctions on Russia, where President Vladimir Putin evoked a famous World War Two victory over the Nazis to rally his…

SEOUL: North Koreacondemned on Friday the decision by the United States to supply Ukraine with advanced battle tanks to help fight off Russia's invasion, saying Washington is escalating a sinister “proxy war” aimed at destroying Moscow.The…

SEOUL: North Korea fired three ballistic missiles toward the sea east of the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, the SouthKorean military said. The launches were the latest in an unprecedented number of missile tests conducted by North Korea…

CAIRO: Iran on Saturday began construction on a new nuclear power plant in the country's southwest, Iranian state TV announced, amid tensions with the US over sweeping sanctions imposed after Washington pulled out of the Islamic Republic's…

WASHINGTON: A communications line created between the militaries of the United States and Russia at the start of Moscow's war against Ukraine has been used only once so far, a US official told Reuters. The official, who spoke on condition…

LONDON: Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control, was rocked by shelling on Sunday, drawing condemnation from the UN nuclear watchdog which said such attacks risked a major disaster. More than a dozen…

KYIV/KHERSON: Russian forces kept up a barrage of shell and missile attacks on various regions of Ukraine, many hitting power infrastructure, while heavy fighting persisted in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the east of the country. With…