Baghdad, The Iraqi Parliament or Council of Representatives has voted to reopen the nomination for the post of President of the country.

A statement by Parliament said that 203 lawmakers voted in favour of opening the candidacy, while 62 deputies abstained, reports Xinhua news agency.

The decis

Lisbon, Several cities across Portugal, more than 95 per cent of whose territory is in "severe or extreme drought", have begun to adopt measures to ration water use.

The water crisis is particularly serious in the southern region, where the Algarve Intermunicipal Community on Saturday announced "joi

New Delhi,  Simultaneously with the work on the creation of a nuclear explosive device, Ukraine has actively engaged in potential means of delivery of nuclear weapons, a Russian official told RIA Novosti.

"In parallel, work was underway in the country to modernize existing and create new missile wea

Miami,  At least 600 households have been evacuated in the Florida Panhandle, the northwest part of the US state, as wildfires continued to grow in the state, officials said.

There are currently 148 wildfires burning more than 7,100 acres across the state, the Florida Forest Service tweeted on Saturday aftern

Colombo,  Sri Lanka's Tourism Ministry on Sunday announced that diesel vehicles registered with the Tourism Development Authority will be given priority access to fuel at state-owned bus depots amid an ongoing shortage of fuel in the island nation.

Vehicles that qualify for this scheme will be given

New Delhi, Russian forces are aiming to capture another nuclear plant in Ukraine after the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was seized last week, a top official in Kiev said on Sunday.

According to Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the Office of the Ukrainian President, the Russian forces are trying

New Delhi, For fresh cues in the coming week, investors would remain focused on the Russia-Ukraine crisis and its impact on crude besides the state elections results of five states that went to polls recently, brokerage house Religare Broking said.

On the macroeconomic front, investors would keep an eye on IIP dat

San Francisco, Payments company PayPal has announced that it is suspending its services in Russia in the wake of Ukraine invasion.

Ukraine's vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov tweeted a letter from PayPal CEO Dan Schulman, confirming the company's decision to shut down its operations in Russia.