India's drug regulator has knocked back a proposal from Dr Reddy's Laboratories to conduct a large study in the country to evaluate Russia's Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine and has asked it to first test the vaccine in a smaller trial, Reuters reports.
The recommendations by an expert panel of the Central...
Kazakhstan’s central bank sold $232 million from its reserves on the domestic market last month in its first interventions since March to prop up the tenge currency, it said on Thursday, Reuters writes.
The interventions came on top of foreign exchange sales from the National fund to the tune of...
Russia has test launched its Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile and successfully hit a target in the Barents Sea, a senior commander told Vladimir Putin on the Russian leader’s 68th birthday on Wednesday, Reuters writes.
Speaking to Putin by video link, Valery Gerasimov, chief of the army’s general staff, said the...
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called on the European Union on Wednesday to take tough action against oligarchs close to the Kremlin as he continues his recovery in Germany after being poisoned by a nerve agent in the banned Novichok family, Reuters reported.
Germany said on Tuesday it was discussing with...
Sheremetyevo International Airport has opened an exhibition dedicated to the work of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as the agency approaches its 70th anniversary.
The photo exhibition is the third joint project by UNHCR and Sheremetyevo Airport, the first of which was presented to the public in...
The threat of the novel coronavirus in Russia has not gone away, but the country is ready for any development, the RIA news agency cited President Vladimir Putin as saying during a meeting with parliamentary leaders on Tuesday.
Daily new cases of the coronavirus in Russia surged past 11,000 on...
Russia’s State Space Agency Roscosmos has made the right decision to develop a reusable rocket, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Tuesday, TASS reported.
"It’s a step in the right direction," Musk twitted, commenting on the material released by TASS on Monday on Russia’s plans to develop the Amur methane-fueled...
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday called the recent signing of a peace deal between the Sudanese government and several rebel groups an "important step" toward national reconciliation in the African country, Sputnik reported.
"We welcome the signing of the peace agreement, which is an important step towards achieving national...
The head of Russia’s SVR Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, has warned that Nagorno-Karabakh risks becoming a launch pad for terrorists who could enter Russian territory, the Interfax news agency cited him as saying on Tuesday.
Naryshkin said he expected Armenia and Azerbaijan to return to the negotiating table over...
Conservation group WWF said on Monday that unexplained toxic pollution off Russia’s far eastern coast was likely caused by a highly soluble substance as officials played down the scale of the problem and suggested it was not man-made, Reuters reported.
Greenpeace raised the alarm last week over what it said...
