Russia Says Captured Key Water Supply Route to Crimea

MOSCOW – February 25 (ONLINE): Russian forces invading Ukraine said they had taken control of a vital canal to supply water to Moscow-annexed Crimea, which has been suffering from shortages for the past eight years. Crimea received most of its water from Ukraine’s Dnieper River […]

Football: Europa Conference League last-16 draws

Paris, Feb 25 (AFP/APP): Draw for the last 16 of the UEFA Europa Conference League, made on Friday: Marseille (FRA) v Basel (SUI) Leicester City (ENG) v Rennes (FRA) PAOK (GRE) v Gent (BEL) Vitesse Arnhem (NED) v Roma (ITA) PSV Eindhoven (NED) v FC […]

Five MSF workers kidnapped in Cameroon

Yaoundé, Feb 25 (AFP/APP): Five workers with the French medical charity MSF have been kidnapped in Cameroon’s Far North, a region troubled by jihadist insurgents, MSF and a senior local official told AFP on Friday. Armed men in Fotokol, near the border with Nigeria, on […]

W.African envoy leaves Mali after inconclusive democracy talks

Bamako, Feb 25 (AFP/APP): An envoy from West Africa’s regional bloc left Mali on Friday, officials said, after inconclusive talks with the military junta over restoring civilian rule in the fragile Sahel state. Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, representing the 15-nation Economic Community of West […]

Pak, Afghan Commerce Ministers meet on Feb 28 at Torkham border

ISLAMABAD, Feb 25 (APP): A high powered delegation led by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce, Textile, Industry and Production, and Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood, accompanied by Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Mohammad Sadiq, is scheduled to meet Afghan Minister of Commerce and his […]

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