Russia's railway network carries over 1.3 bln passengers in 2025
Moscow [Russia], January 13: Russia's railway network handled 1.3102 billion passenger trips in 2025, a 1.9 percent increase compared with 2024, Russian Railways announced Monday.
Serbia's economic growth slows in 2025 as industrial and investment pressures mount
Belgrade [Serbia], January 13: Serbia's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 2 percent in the first 11 months of 2025, down 2.2 percentage points from...
Mexico offers to mediate between U.S., Cuba
Mexico City [Mexico], January 13: Mexico is willing to act as a mediator if the United States and Cuba agree to dialogue, President Claudia Sheinbaum...
Minnesota sues Trump administration over surge of federal immigration enforcement
Los Angeles [California], January 13: The U.S. state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Monday filed a lawsuit against the...
Trump says countries doing business with Iran face 25 pct tariff
Tehran [Iran], January 13: U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that any country doing business with Iran will pay a tariff rate of 25 percent...
U.S. stocks close higher amid criminal probe into Fed chair Powell
New York [US], January 13: U.S. stocks finished slightly higher on Monday, staging a late-session recovery as investors navigated a volatile landscape marked by a...
U.S. State Department revokes over 100,000 visas in nearly a year
Washington DC [US], January 13: The U.S. State Department announced Monday that it has revoked over 100,000 visas since U.S. President Donald Trump took office...
Former Fed chairs, U.S. officials decry criminal probe against Fed chair Powell
New York [US], January 13: Three former U.S. Federal Reserve chairs and 10 other former top economic officials from the federal government on Monday criticized...
'They just kept killing': Eyewitnesses describe deadly crackdown in Iran
Tehran [Iran], January 13: "I saw it with my own eyes - they fired directly into lines of protesters, and people fell where they stood."
Trump to meet Venezuelan opposition leader Machado at the White House
Caracas [Venezuela], January 13: Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado will meet President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House...
$4.2 billion worth of oil from Venezuela on its way to the...
Washington DC [US], January 13: US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters aboard Air Force One on the situation in Venezuela on Sunday (local time)....
"Russia must be stopped": Zelenskyy says combined forces of Europe, US can...
Kyiv [Ukraine], January 13: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday (local time) said that Russia has been suffering losses of no less than 1,000 soldiers...
From Guatemala to Panama: US affairs in Latin America
New York [US], January 13: In the early hours of January 3, US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Both...
"Respect freedom of expression, refrain from unnecessary use of force": UN chief...
Geneva [Switzerland], January 13: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday (local time) urged Iranian authorities to "exercise maximum restraint" amid unrest in the country,...
China calls for non-interference in Iran amidst protests and Trump threats
Beijing [China], January 13: China has responded to the protests in Iran and the statements by US President Donald Trump about possible intervention with a...
Cuban president says no talks with US
Havana [Cuba], January 13: Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has said that there are no current talks between Havana and the United States, as US President...
Greenland showdown at 'decisive moment'
Copenhagen [Denmark], January 13: Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said her country faces a "decisive moment" over the future of Greenland after United States...
Israeli quadcopter kills 3 in Gaza's Khan Younis
Gaza [Palestine], January 13: Three Palestinians have been killed in the southern Gaza Strip in Israel's latest violation of October's ceasefire in its genocidal war...
Protests became bloody to give intervention excuse: Iran's FM
Tehran [Iran], January 13: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has alleged that nationwide protests have "turned violent and bloody to give an excuse" for United...
Russia says it knocked out Lviv aircraft plant
Moscow [Russia], January 13: Russia said on Monday it had knocked out an aircraft repair plant in an attack last week on the western Ukrainian...
Ceasefire deal sees SDF fighters exit Aleppo after deadly clashes
Aleppo [Syria], January 12: The last fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have withdrawn from the city of Aleppo following a ceasefire deal...
Op Hawkeye Strike: US conducts strikes across Syria on ISIS targets
Florida [US], January 12: US Central Command (CENTCOM) forces, along with partner forces, conducted large-scale strikes against multiple ISIS targets across Syria as a part...
Six, including child, pastor killed in Mississippi shooting
Mississippi [US], January 12: Six people were killed, including a seven-year-old girl and a pastor, in Mississippi, the New York Post reported, citing the police.
Venezuela, Greenland, Ukraine: Germany's Merz in crisis mode
Berlin [Germany], January 12: While Germans were asking how it was possible that about 100,000 people in Berlin were left without electricity and heating for...
US: Hundreds of rallies held over ICE shootings
Minneapolis [US], January 12: Minneapolis streets were filled with tens of thousands of protesters on Saturday, despite a biting cold wind, amid anger over the...
Pakistan: Newlyweds among 8 killed in Islamabad explosion
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 12: An explosion at a house following a wedding reception in Pakistan's capital Islamabad has killed at least eight people, police said...
Deaths from Iran protests reach more than 500, rights group says
Tehran [Iran], January 12: Unrest in Iran has killed more than 500 people, a rights group said on Sunday, as Tehran threatened to target U.S....