MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: Russia supports the mutual recognition of COVID-19 vaccination certificates, with the fact of being vaccinated being more important than the specific vaccine that was used. It is necessary to separate the procedures of allowing vaccines on the market and recognize the certificates, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said during a meeting with the Council of Europe’s delegation led by the Council’s Deputy Secretary General Bjorn Berge on Thursday.

New Delhi, Nov 11 (PTI) Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the issue of safety of women, alleging that women are unsafe in the state.

Her attack came after media reports claimed that an officer at Bapu Bhavan in Lucknow has been arrested for allegedly molesting a contractual worker after a video of the incident went viral.

"Be it secretariat, road or any other place: Women are unsafe in Uttar Pradesh. This is the reality of the government's claim on 'women's safety'," Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi.

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: Moscow hopes that the "crazy idea" of sanctions against the Russian company Aeroflot lives only in bogus stories, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday.

"Let's all count on the fact that such crazy ideas live only in such bogus stories," he said, speaking of the possibility of imposing sanctions against the Russian airline by the EU.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 (NNN-Bernama) — ASEAN must remain a strategic player as a bloc in the ever changing geopolitical landscape in light of new partnerships between powerful and influential countries, said Malaysian Senior Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.

He said this can only be achieved when all nations continue to communicate and work as a united bloc, and as small nations, we must coalesce with those who share similar values that would be able to defend and promote ASEAN centrality, the region’s interests with external parties.

DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Wednesday approved a $626 million deal to settle lawsuits filed by Flint residents who found their tap water contaminated by lead following disastrous decisions to switch the city’s water source and a failure to swiftly acknowledge the problem.

Most of the money — $600 million — is coming from the state of Michigan, which was accused of repeatedly overlooking the risks of using the Flint River without properly treating the water.

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/: The United States and NATO have switched to practicing Black Sea deployments by whole squadrons and task forces instead of standalone combat ships, military expert, Director for Development at the Fund for Assistance to 21st Century Technologies Ivan Konovalov told TASS on Thursday.

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Afghan acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday for a three-day visit as head of a high-level delegation to hold wide-ranging talks with the Pakistani leadership.

Pakistan's Special Representative for Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq and Abdul Razak Dawood, advisor to Pakistani prime minister on commerce, textile, industry and production, and investment welcomed Muttaqi on his arrival, according to the state television of Pakistan.

Kolkata, Nov 11 (PTI) Bengali actor Srabanti Chatterjee, who had joined the BJP before this year's assembly elections and unsuccessfully contested against TMC heavyweight Partha Chatterjee, quit the saffron party on Thursday citing its "lack of initiative and sincerity to further the cause of West Bengal".

The 34-year-old actor had been maintaining a distance from the saffron party after it failed to unseat Mamata Banerjee's government from power in the eastern state despite a high-pitched campaign.

11 Nov 2021; MEMO: Seven United Nations experts yesterday condemned Tunisia's expulsion of dozens of migrants and asylum seekers, amid allegations that they had been subjected to racism and arbitrarily expelled to Libya where they may now be in danger.

Nagpur, Nov 10 (PTI) A 23-year-old jobless man committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling fan at his house in Kalamna area here in Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.

According to police, the deceased, Bhushan Gawande, was depressed as he couldn't get a job in Chandrapur where he had stayed for three days.

On Tuesday evening, he hanged himself from a ceiling fan with a scarf in his house, police said.

NEW DELHI, Nov 11 (NNN-PTI) – Ten people were killed today, in a head-on collision between an auto-rickshaw and a goods truck, in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, officials said.

The accident took place on a highway in Karimganj district, about 310 km south of Dispur, the capital city of Assam.

According to police, the dead include five women and two children.

Officials said, the victims were returning to their homes after participating in a religious ceremony.

CAIRO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Prominent Sudanese activist Mohamed Nagi Al-Assam was arrested on Thursday morning, the doctors union he was a member of said in a statement.

Al-Assam was a prominent figure in the country's 2019 uprising and has been a vocal critic of the Oct. 25 military takeover.