Pakistan being the first country in the region to achieve the target of leprosy control, also fast on its way to leprosy elimination is in urgent need of a comprehensive rehabilitation scheme for people already inflicted with the disease

Goldman Sachs on Tuesday accused the former Malaysian government and state fund 1MDB of lying to the bank, after Kuala Lumpur charged the Wall Street titan over a massive financial scandal.

Russia is not ruling out the implementation of joint scientific and technical projects with China in African countries, as it believes that the experience of Beijing may be useful, Andrei Kemarsky, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department of Africa, told Sputnik.

Russian oil and gas condensate production is expected to grow up to 556 million tonnes in 2018, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Tuesday.

Taking to Instagram, Neha Dhupia shared a video of little Mehr kicking the card having “One month old today” written on it.

New Zealand will hold a referendum on legalizing the use of cannabis for recreational purposes in 2020 as part of the general election, New Zealand's justice minister, Andrew Little, said on Tuesday

The resolution on the Sea of Azov passed by the UN General Assembly gives Kiev permission to take any steps that may lead to tragedy, Konstantin Kosachev, the chairman of the Russian upper house's foreign affairs committee, said Tuesday.

Crimean authorities are planning to transform the Morskaya Direktsiya company that used to operate the Kerch Strait ferry line into a Crimean-Syrian shipping company, which will facilitate cargo transportation between the Russian region and the Arab republic, Deputy Prime Minister of the Crimean government Georgy Muradov told Sputnik

A robot has worked as a security officer at a station of Seibu Railway in Japan, and this test has been held within the country's preparations to host the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, Maki Sone, a Seibu Railway representative, told Sputnik on Tuesday.