PIA flight carrying relief goods from Malaysia arrives

ISLAMABAD, Sep 15 (APP): Pakistan International Airlines flight carrying relief goods for flood victims arrived here on Thursday from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Present at the Islamabad International Airport to receive the cargo was the Acting High Commissioner of Malaysia, Deddy Faisal bin Ahmad Salleh and […]

Iran says crew of seized Greek oil tanker replaced

Tehran, Sept 14 (AFP/APP):The crew of one of two Greek oil tankers seized by Iranian armed forces in May have been replaced by their company, Iran’s foreign ministry said Wednesday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized the ships in the Gulf days after Greece said […]

Swedish PM resigns after right, far-right poll win

Stockholm, Sept 14 (AFP/APP): Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday announced that she would resign after an unprecedented right-wing and far-right bloc narrowly won Sunday’s election. Out of the Swedish parliament’s 349 seats, the right-wing opposition was set to win 176, thanks in part […]

Tajikistan says two border guards killed in clashes with Kyrgyzstan

Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Sept 14 (AFP/APP):Local authorities in authoritarian Tajikistan said Wednesday that two of its border guards were killed after clashes broke out with its Central Asian neighbour Kyrgyzstan. Fighting regularly flares up between the mountainous ex-Soviet republics that share a 970 kilometre-long (600 miles) […]

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