Washington [US], January 18 (ANI/Sputnik): The US State Department is calling for the immediate release of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny who was detained at the airport in Moscow upon his arrival from Germany.
Moscow [Russia], January 18 (ANI): Police on Sunday detained Russia's leading opposition figure and chief Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, moments after he returned to Moscow.
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], January 17 (ANI): The first case under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019, which criminalises Triple Talaq, was registered in Himachal Pradesh's capital city Shimla on Saturday.
Karachi [Pakistan], January 17 (ANI): Karachi found a place among the world's most polluted cities when the level of hazardous particles in the air touched 324 on Sunday, according to ARY News.
Berlin [Germany], January 17 (ANI): Russia's leading opposition figure and chief Kremlin critic, Alexey Navalny on Sunday left for Moscow from Germany, five months after he was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent.
Baghdad [Iraq], January 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Six security members and a civilian were killed on Sunday in a bomb explosion in the west of Nineveh's provincial capital Mosul, local security and a medic said.
Moscow [Russia], January 17 (ANI/Sputnik): Five people sustained injuries in a shooting in the US city of San Francisco on Saturday, all of them are in non-life-threatening condition, police reported.
Bangkok [Thailand], January 17 (ANI/Xinhua): Thailand on Sunday confirmed 374 new COVID-19 cases, mostly detected among migrant workers, according to the Center for the COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).
Moscow [Russia], January 17 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia registered 23,586 COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, down from 24,092 the day before, taking the tally to 3,568,209, the coronavirus response centre said on Sunday.
Moscow [Russia], January 17 (ANI/Sputnik): The reusable methane rocket engine developed for Russia's new Amur-SPG medium-class carrier rocket will be powerful enough to cover up to 50 space launches, files from Russian space agency Roscosmos released on the government procurement website sho
Karachi [Pakistan], January 17 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has demanded foreign funding case against Prime Minister Imran be made public, stating that his party will only use constitutional and democratic means to remove the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Berlin [Germany], January 16 (ANI): Armin Laschet has been selected as the new chairman of the ruling conservative Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), and stands most strongly as the successor of Angela Merkel as Chancellor when she steps down after federal elections this year.