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Spain to send ‘military hardware’ to Ukraine: PM

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Madrid, March 2 (AFP/APP): Spain will supply weapons directly to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday, two days after saying Madrid would only contribute via an EU funding mechanism. The move came after pressure on Sanchez’s left-wing coalition government to take […]

WHO ‘deeply concerned’ by Ukraine healthcare attacks

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Geneva, March 2 (AFP/APP):The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that it was “deeply concerned” by reports of attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine and that it was working to verify them. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference that the organisation was […]

US grants temporary protected status for Sudanese, extension for SSudanese

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Washington, March 2 (AFP/APP):The United States on Wednesday granted “temporary protected status” for Sudanese nationals in the country and extended the same designation for South Sudanese citizens, as the two countries face political upheaval and conflict. “Sudan is currently experiencing political instability and unrest, and […]

Russia’s king of diplomacy becomes sanctioned pariah

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Paris, March 2 (AFP/APP):When Russia’s veteran Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hosted his British counterpart Liz Truss for talks in Moscow in February in a doomed attempt to avert war, he had a trick up his sleeve. “Do you recognise the sovereignty of Russia over the […]

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 […]

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