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Nigeria to airlift hundreds stranded by Ukraine crisis

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Lagos, March 2 (AFP/APP): Nigeria’s government on Wednesday planned to start airlifting more than 1,000 citizens stranded in countries neighbouring Ukraine after they fled the Russian invasion. African countries have been scrambling to help citizens living in Ukraine who crossed over borders into Poland, Romania […]

Saudi Arabia says cracking down on illegal Captagon drug

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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 2 (AFP/APP):On a table covered in a green sheet, two Saudi officers pour out thousands of white amphetamine pills they have just seized from a neighbourhood in the kingdom’s Red Sea city of Jeddah. An AFP crew accompanied the anti-narcotics agents […]

Pak govt releases 30pc of funds to AJK under PSDP

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MIRPUR (AJK): Mar 02 (APP):The government of Pakistan has released 30 percent of funds allocated to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP). Pertinently, unlike all the four provinces of the country, the AJK has been granted a full share […]

Three die, 24 injured in Quetta blast

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QUETTA, Mar 02 (APP): At least three persons were killed and 24 others sustained injuries in an explosion at a shop here on Fatima Jinnah Road on Wednesday, police said. According to the police, the shop caught fire after the blast. Balochistan Health Department Media […]

UN to take first step towards ‘historic’ plastic treaty

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Nairobi, March 2 (AFP/APP):The United Nations is to launch formal negotiations on Wednesday for a global treaty to address a plastic trash “epidemic” that supporters say is a historic moment for the planet. The UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), convening in Nairobi, is poised to adopt […]

Baidoa: Crossroads of despair in drought-ravaged Somalia

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Baidoa, Somalia, March 2 (AFP/APP):Under the blazing sun, Salado Adan Mohamed puts the finishing touches to her makeshift shelter, cobbled together from branches and fragments of discarded cloth. She has just arrived in the southwestern Somali city of Baidoa, the last refuge for people fleeing […]

Scrounging for food in ‘hunger hotspot’ Colombia

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Bogota, March 2 (AFP/APP): While the Colombian government fumes over being listed as a “hunger hotspot” by UN agencies, Heidy Garzon — a single mother of nine — worries where her family’s next meal will come from. “We don’t know what we’re going to eat […]

Russia-Ukraine conflict: China opposes Western Sanctions on Russia

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BEIJING – February 28 (ONLINE): China said Monday it does not support sanctions imposed over Russia by the western countries, in wake of intensifying Russia-Ukraine conflict. A statement issued by the Chinese foreign ministry said that China opposes ‘illegal’ and ‘unilateral’ sanctions over Russia. Sanctions […]

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