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UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, Munir Akram, handed over the chairmanship of the OIC Group in New York to his Mauritanian counterpart, Sidi Mohamed Laghdaf, at a simple ceremony on Thursday. In brief remarks, Ambassador Munir congratulated Mauritania on the […]

Washington, April 27 (AFP/APP): President Yoon Suk Yeol celebrated Seoul’s “stronger than ever” alliance with Washington in a joint meeting of Congress Thursday as the partners unite to deter North Korea’s nuclear threat. Yoon is on a week-long US state visit to mark the 70th […]

NAIROBI 26 April (Online): The death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves has risen to 89, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said on Tuesday, calling for the group’s leader to spend the rest of […]

ISLAMABAD 26 April (Online): Singapore has hanged 46-year-old Tangaraju Suppiah who was found guilty in 2018 of trafficking more than 1kg (2.2 pounds) of cannabis, despite last-minute appeals for clemency from his family and activists. His family said they had been given Tangaraju’s death certificate, […]