MOSCOW, June 11. /TASS/: Ninety-four Russian soldiers have been released from the Ukrainian captivity as a result of negotiations, the Russian defense ministry said on Sunday.

"On June 11, as a result of the negotiating process, 94 Russian servicemen, who were in mortal danger in the Ukrainian captivity, were released from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime," it said, adding that the released soldiers will be taken to the ministry’s hospitals for treatment and rehabilitation.

AMMAN, Jun 11 (NNN-PETRA) – Jordan and Egypt, yesterday, inked an agreement, aimed at bolstering cooperation in the realm of gas infrastructure.

As per the deal, Egypt will utilise the floating storage vessel, located at Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Port in Aqaba, Jordan, for gas processing. In return, Jordan will receive liquefied natural gas from Egypt and will, when required, pump back a portion of the natural gas through existing pipelines between the two nations.

ISLAMABAD, June 11 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday said that the enhanced bilateral cooperation between Pakistan and Turkiye through joint investment and ventures would prove ‘a win win’ situation for the both countries.

In an interview with Haber Global, a Turkish Tv channel, the prime minister highlighted that a target of bilateral trade to the tune of $5 billion, in the next three years, between the two countries was very much achievable.

TEHRAN, June 11 (Xinhua) -- The Iranian anti-narcotics police seized more than 13 tons of illegal drugs in separate operations across the country over the past seven days, Iran's IRIB news agency reported on Sunday.

During the operations, 13.19 tons of narcotics were sized and 2,385 illicit drugs retailers were arrested, particularly in the provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan, Kerman, Hormuzgan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and Semnan, IRIB quoted Iran's anti-narcotics police chief, Iraj Kakavand, as saying.

Washington, Jun 11 (PTI) A group of eminent Indian-Americans from across the country have come together to host the first ever Hindu-American Summit for Political Engagement at the US Capitol, which organisers said along with others would be addressed by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Beijing, Jun 9 (PTI) China on Friday said it is ready to work with South Africa to bolster the security for the BRICS summit in August in light of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

BRICS is an international grouping comprising China, India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.

Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press.

TOKYO, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. debt limit deal confirmed the ugliest assessments of U.S. politics and policymaking, said a recent commentary by The Japan Times.

"Most troubling of the fiasco is the damage done to images of American credibility, capability and competence," it said.

The commentary published Tuesday also called the U.S. debt debacle "a completely self-created crisis."

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents is set to play out in a federal court in Florida. But about a thousand miles away, part of Trump’s defense is well underway in a different venue — the halls of Congress, where Republicans have been preparing for months to wage an aggressive counter-offensive against the Justice Department.

London, Jun 10 (PTI) Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has abruptly resigned as a lawmaker, claiming he was the “victim of a witch-hunt”, after being told by a parliamentary committee that he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament over lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street during his premiership.

Johnson, 58, one of the main architects of Brexit, compared the Privileges Committee probe to a “kangaroo court” as he quit.

09 June 2023; MEMO: The White House said, on Friday, that Russia appeared to be deepening its defence cooperation with Iran and had received hundreds of one-way attack drones that it is using to strike Ukraine, Reuters reports.

Citing newly declassified information, the White House said the drones, or Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), were built in Iran, shipped across the Caspian Sea and then used by Russian forces against Ukraine.

MIAMI (AP) — The federal indictment against Donald Trump accuses the former president of illegally hoarding classified documents at his Florida estate after leaving the White House in 2021, and then scheming and lying to thwart government efforts to recover them.

Justice Department prosecutors brought 37 felony counts against Trump in the indictment, relying upon photographs from Mar-a-Lago, surveillance video, text messages between staffers, Trump’s own words, those of his lawyers, and other evidence.