Ukraine has denied that it tried to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin during an overnight drone attack on his official residence in Moscow. Russia claims it foiled a Ukrainian-backed plot to target Putin — but Kyiv rubbished the Kremlin’s allegations which sparked a storm Wednesday afternoon. “We don’t attack Putin or Moscow. We fight on مزید پڑھیں

An Indian army helicopter Dhruv with three people on board crashed in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu Kashmir’s Kishtwar district today. According to reports, at least two crew members have been injured. Indian media reported suggested that this is the third crash involving an ALH Dhruv in the last two months. A search and rescue operation مزید پڑھیں

Presidents of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Arab Republic of Syria have singed an agreement on “long-term strategic comprehensive cooperation” between the two countries. The two presidents held a meeting earlier in the day in Damascus, highlighting the importance of Iran-Syria’s long-term cooperation plan for advancing the interests of the two nations and مزید پڑھیں

Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of attacking the Kremlin with drones overnight in a failed attempt to kill President Vladimir Putin. A senior Ukrainian presidential official said Kyiv had nothing to do with the purported incident, the most dramatic accusation Russia has levelled against Ukraine since invading its neighbour more than 14 months ago. The مزید پڑھیں

A 14-year-old boy shot his teacher in a Belgrade classroom on Wednesday morning before opening fire on other students and security guards, killing eight pupils and a security guard, Serbia’s interior ministry said. Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school, said his daughter was in the class مزید پڑھیں

Almost 258 million people in 58 countries faced acute food shortages last year due to conflicts, climate change, effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, according to a United Nations report, a sharp rise from 193 million the previous year. The Global Report on Food Crises, an alliance of humanitarian organisations founded مزید پڑھیں

Ukraine has followed its usual line of not claiming responsibility for the attacks, which came as Kyiv said it is finalizing preparations for a spring offensive announced weeks ago. An explosive device derailed a Russian freight train in a region bordering Ukraine for a second straight day Tuesday ahead of an expected counteroffensive by Kyiv.Russian مزید پڑھیں

Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi arrives in Syria for rare meeting with Bashar Assad.Tehran has been a main backer of President Bashar Assad’s government since an uprising turned into a full-blown war in March 2011. Iraninan President Ebrahim Raisi landed in Damascus Wednesday on the first visit by an Iranian head of state to the war-wracked مزید پڑھیں

At least 55 people have been killed in western Rwanda in flooding triggered by heavy rains. According to international media reports, “flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains last night in Western Province has caused over 55 deaths,”. A video clip posted on the state-run Rwanda Broadcasting Agency’s Twitter account showed muddy water running along مزید پڑھیں

Taliban’s interim foreign minister gets UN clearance to travel for meeting with counterparts in Pakistan. Pakistan’s UN mission requested an exemption for Muttaqi to travel between May 6 and 9 “for a meeting with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China”. A United Nations Security Council committee has agreed to allow the Taliban’s interim foreign minister, مزید پڑھیں