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UNITED NATIONS, Apr 27 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, Munir Akram, handed over the chairmanship of the OIC Group in New York to his Mauritanian counterpart, Sidi Mohamed Laghdaf, at a simple ceremony on Thursday. In brief remarks, Ambassador Munir congratulated Mauritania on the […]

Washington, April 27 (AFP/APP): President Yoon Suk Yeol celebrated Seoul’s “stronger than ever” alliance with Washington in a joint meeting of Congress Thursday as the partners unite to deter North Korea’s nuclear threat. Yoon is on a week-long US state visit to mark the 70th […]

Madrid, April 27 (AFP/APP): Spanish lawmakers vote Thursday on a housing bill aimed at capping soaring rents and addressing dire social housing shortages as the government seeks to bolster the right to affordable housing. The bill would cap rent hikes, increase help in high-demand areas, […]

NAIROBI 26 April (Online): The death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves has risen to 89, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said on Tuesday, calling for the group’s leader to spend the rest of […]

ISLAMABAD 26 April (Online): Singapore has hanged 46-year-old Tangaraju Suppiah who was found guilty in 2018 of trafficking more than 1kg (2.2 pounds) of cannabis, despite last-minute appeals for clemency from his family and activists. His family said they had been given Tangaraju’s death certificate, […]

United Nations, United States, April 26 (AFP/APP): Gang violence in Haiti is spreading at “an alarming rate,” the UN warned Wednesday, repeating its unanswered call for an international force to help restore order in the crisis-torn country. From lynchings and rooftop snipers to the murder […]

Moscow, April 26 (AFP/APP): Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said Wednesday he could face life in prison on “terrorism” charges while another popular opposition politician went on trial in Russia’s escalating clampdown on dissent. Authorities are taking the crackdown on freedoms in Russia to new […]

Ottawa, April 26 (AFP/APP): Canadian mining group Teck Resources at the last minute on Wednesday cancelled a shareholder vote on splitting its metals and coal operations into two companies, while continuing to push back against Swiss giant Glencore’s takeover effort. The Vancouver-based company twice rejected […]

Johannesburg, April 25 (AFP/APP): South Africa is not planning to quit the International Criminal Court, as earlier suggested by President Cyril Ramaphosa, his office said Tuesday, citing a communication error from the ruling ANC party. Hours earlier, Ramaphosa had said his African National Congress (ANC) […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, April 25 (AFP/APP): Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak on Tuesday dismissed as “hypocrisy” comments made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the UN about protecting the United Nations charter. “An impeccable hypocrisy fair, Lavrov chairs the UNSC justifying war, mass killings, total […]