The talks took place at the Arab Institute for Security Studies, where a number of security and technical issues, as well as means of boosting regional stability, were discussed. The discussions also focused on reducing the threat of missiles.

P.S. Vinothraj's low-budget debut movie "Koozhangal" -- internationally known by its translated title "Pebbles" -- has been selected as India's entry to the international feature film category at next year's Oscars. Indian critics have described the movie as a "masterpiece."

RIA-Novosti, reporting from excerpts of the documentary, said Putin had revealed that he worked occasionally as a taxi driver to boost his income.

Two gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on a policeman who was guarding a two-member female polio vaccination team in the Sheikh Uttar area, killing him on the spot. Earlier, two men gunned down a policeman who was also guarding a vaccination team in the same area.

1 out of 7 suffering from moderate to severe coronavirus infection died, death rate many times greater than in the West, finds survey

Iran claims it only wants to develop a civilian capability but Western powers say its stockpile of enriched uranium goes well beyond that, and could be used to develop a nuclear weapon.

The government is planning an extra T$240 billion ($8.66 billion) over the next five years in military spending to go mostly toward naval weapons, including missiles and warships.

Harnaaz Sandhu took the top prize in the Red Sea resort with Paraguay's Nadia Ferreira first runner-up and Miss South Africa Lalela Mswane taking the second runner-up spot.

The remark came in response to threats by the US president on Saturday that Moscow would pay a “terrible price” should it decide to attack Ukraine.

The ECP should scrutinize the accounts of political parties into phases as it could scrutinize the accounts of three major political parties in first phase and make them public.

Cypriot Energy Minister Natasa Pilides, Varnavas Theodosiou, CEO of ExxonMobil Cyprus, and Ali al-Mana, director of Qatar Energy’s International Upstream and Exploration, signed an oil and gas exploration contract in Nicosia.

The 56-year-old film director still savors the memory of the minutes-long standing ovation he received after the documentary's press screening at Cannes. He now lives in fear of the hardline Islamists who returned to power in mid-August.