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Top PM Modi’s party official says ‘entire world’ believes India the ‘only’ power to mediate & resolve US-Iran conflict Chief Minister of northern Uttar Pradesh state and prominent member of India’s PM Narendra Modi party has suggested that the world was waiting for India to step into the row between the US and Iran and reduce the tension. Speaking at the campaign rally in Rohini, to the northwest of New Delhi, on Saturday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath argued that the times when the US acted as a mediator in international disputes have long gone and it’s time for India, which has grown into a major world power, to fill the void. "Earlier, when small nations sparred over various issues, the United States would jump in,” Adityanath said.  "Now t...

Clucking hell! New outbreak of BIRD FLU sees thousands of chickens culled in coronavirus-stricken China As China grapples with the rampant Wuhan coronavirus, another sickness has broken out in the country: the deadly H5N1 bird flu. The outbreak took place at a farm near Shaoyang city, in China’s central Hunan province, the country’s Ministry of Agriculture announced on Saturday. 4,500 of the farm’s 7,850 chickens have died from the illness, and local authorities have culled nearly 20,000 birds to contain its spread. H5N1 is an avian flu virus that causes severe respiratory disease in birds, and is contagious to humans. No human victims have yet been reported, but the World Health Organization (WHO) states that more than 350 people have died from the...

Russia stops processing Chinese work visas & scraps visa-free travel amid coronavirus epidemic Moscow has temporarily halted issuing work visas to Chinese citizens and suspended visa-free travel for Chinese tourist groups in response to the coronavirus epidemic in the country. The travel restriction come into force from Sunday. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who ordered them, stressed that the measures are temporary and are only meant to protect people in Russia from health risks posed by the infection — a point he asked the Foreign Ministry to make known to Beijing. Moscow also suspended preferential travel of Chinese nationals to Russia through Mongolia. Visa-free travel under the Russia-China intergovernmental agreement has be...

‘He’s in our anthem, why not in constitution?’ Russian Patriarch wants GOD mentioned in state charter Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, says believers should pray for a constitutional amendment that would add a reference to God. He thinks the mention would be appreciated by all faiths alike. “Most Russian citizens believe in God. Not just the Orthodox Christians — I speak about Muslims and many-many others,” the patriarch said as cited by the Church spokesman. “If the anthem can have the words ‘Our homeland protected by God’, why can’t the constitution say the same thing?” Russia is currently preparing for a number of amendments to the basic law, which would somewhat redistribute powers among its branches and enshrine in it ...

Breaking the ice: Hockey-loving new US ambassador visits Moscow game… and reveals his favorite player is RUSSIAN America’s new ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, said ice hockey could help bring the two nations closer together as he visited a game in Moscow, also singing the praises of his favorite player, Russia's Alexander Ovechkin. Sullivan took up his post earlier this year, and as an avid hockey fan wasted little time in arranging a visit to a game in the Russian capital. The American diplomat was at the local derby between Moscow clubs Spartak and Dynamo on Saturday, where, suitably dressed in a Washington Capitals NHL jersey, he dropped the ceremonial first puck alongside Russian hockey legends Vyacheslav Fetisov and Alexander Yakushev. ...

‘What should I do? Hide in the cellar?’ Nigel Farage tells RT’s Going Underground he’ll be a Brexit ‘watchdog’ With Britain’s departure from the EU representing the culmination of his political career thus far, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told RT’s Going Underground that he’ll be keeping an eye on proceedings for the next year. “Everyone said to me it was impossible, I’m wasting my time, should go back to business, but it just shows you that actually… there was a massive disconnect between how Westminster saw the European issue and how the country saw the European issue,” he told Going Underground’s Farhaan Ahmed on Saturday. “And what I did was to go in there and expose it.” //www.youtube.com/embed/os...