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US weapons sales to get stricker human right review under Biden

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WASHINGTON 23 Feb (Online): US President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled on Thursday a long-awaited overhaul of arms export policy with increased emphasis on human rights, backing off a Trump-era policy of giving more weight to commercial concerns. As Reuters reported on Wednesday, the new Commercial […]

Spanish PM says hopes to send ten tanks to Ukraine

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Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 23 (AFP/APP): Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday during a visit to Kyiv that he hoped to send ten Leopard tanks to Ukraine in the coming months. Speaking to reporters alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Sanchez said Spain was sending six […]

Estonia’s defence ‘starts from Ukraine’, says PM

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Tallinn, Feb 23 (AFP/APP): Estonia’s defence “starts from Ukraine,” the Baltic state’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said Thursday in an interview with AFP on the eve of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We see clearly that our defence right now starts also from […]

Global trade ‘resilient’ during Ukraine war: WTO

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Geneva, Feb 23 (AFP/APP): Russia’s war in Ukraine did not dent global trade in 2022 as badly as feared, the World Trade Organization said Thursday — and Russia’s export values even surged. A year on since the full-scale invasion, the WTO concluded that trade had […]

Biden nominates ex-Mastercard CEO to lead World Bank

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Washington, Feb 23 (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden said Thursday that Washington is nominating former Mastercard Chief Executive Ajay Banga as a candidate to lead the World Bank, after its current head announced plans to step down early. The development lender has just started accepting […]

8 militants killed in Balochistan

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QUETTA, Feb 23 (APP):Eight militants were killed in Kech district, ISPR handout issued on Thursday said. It read, on the evening of 22 February 23, terrorists attempted to ambush a convoy of security forces in District Kech of Balochistan. While alert and combat ready troops […]

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