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Brussels, Aug 22 (AFP/APP): European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans announced his resignation Tuesday to stand in the Dutch general elections with ambitions of becoming the next prime minister. Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen responded to his notification by thanking Timmermans, 62, for his […]

Niamey, Niger, Aug 22 (AFP/APP): Suspected armed militants have killed 12 soldiers in Niger’s remote southwest, state television reported on Tuesday, in the latest attack since army officers seized power last month. An anti-militants operation by national guards was “the target of an ambush” Sunday […]

ISTANBUL, Aug 21 (XINHUA/APP):Turkish anti-narcotics police seized nearly 450 kg of methamphetamine and arrested five suspects, including a foreigner, in Istanbul, the governor’s office said in a statement on Monday. The operation comes as part of a probe into the illicit trafficking of drugs, said […]

BANGKOK Aug 20 (Online): Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to return to the kingdom on Tuesday, the same day as a key parliamentary vote could end a political deadlock, his daughter said. The 74-year-old billionaire was ousted in a 2006 military coup […]

Cairo, Aug 20 (AFP/APP): Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure of the country’s 2011 uprising who has spent the last decade behind bars, has been granted a presidential pardon, lawyers said Saturday. “President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi… has used his constitutional powers” to pardon several […]

Kabul Aug 18 (Online): The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) spokesperson said they may end financing 25 Afghan hospitals due to shortage of funding and growing concerns over a plunge in aid to Afghanistan. Further spokesperson Diogo Alcantara said “although we continue to engage […]

STOCKHOLM, Aug 18 (XINHUA/APP): Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Friday that the government had thwarted several terrorist attacks. “We know that planned acts of terrorism have been hindered,” Kristersson said at a press conference, hours after the Swedish Secret Service’s decision to raise […]

MANAMA Aug 17 (Online): As Iranian seizures threaten oil tankers plying the Gulf, the United States is raising its military presence — a move long demanded by Gulf Arab states who accused Washington of retreating from the region. Three thousand additional US personnel on troop-landing […]

MOSCOW Aug 17 (Online): Tens of thousands of Muscovites are taking part in combat operations in Ukraine, the Russian capital’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Wednesday, giving a rare estimate of the forces deployed. Russia and Ukraine rarely communicate on the total number of troops […]