US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the release of three American citizens and one green-card holder who were imprisoned in Russia, under a prisoners' swap deal with the Russian......
On Wednesday, September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a 'partial mobilisation' of some 300,000 reservists with immediate effect in the wake of setbacks suffered by the Russian......
The military conflict around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine -- Europe's largest nuclear plant -- has raised fears of an accident worse than the Chernobyl accident in 1986. Ukraine......
A raging fire engulfed a docked Russian nuclear submarine at an Arctic shipyard in northern Russia on Thursday. For now, officials have said there has been no radiation leak or injuries. The fire......
Noting that terrorism is haunting the Asian and Central Asian regions, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday underlined the need for "genuine" cooperation among countries on a global scale to......
Addressing the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Yekaterinburg (Russia), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that India is seeking an external environment conducive to its......
The recent BRIC leaders' summit at Yekaterinburg, east of Moscow in the Ural Mountains, resulted in analysing the role of dollar as the global reserve currency and finding means for an alternative......
And just what were these cool guys discussing? IMAGE: Will Smith with A R Rahman. Photograph: Kind courtesy A R Rahman/Instagram Take a look at this picture. Will Smith is billed as one of the......
IMAGE: Peru fans enjoy. Photograph: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images Thousands of red-shirted Peru supporters streamed through the streets of Yekaterinburg on Thursday, outnumbering France's by......
IMAGE: Locals enjoy a game of chess in central Yekaterinburg, Russia. Photograph: Evgenia Novozhenina Chess governing body FIDE's general assembly agreed to consider lifting parts of a ban on......
Organisers of the prestigious event, in which matches will run until April 3 in Yekaterinburg, a city 1,400 kilometres east of Moscow, are taking special measures to ensure players remain healthy.......
IMAGE: Muslims, including supporters of the Moroccan national soccer team, attend an Eid al-Fitr mass prayer to mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Saint Petersburg,......
IMAGE: Liverpool's Egyptian player Mohamed Salah sustained a shoulder injury during the Champions League final against Real Madrid last month. Photograph: Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters......