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Rome, May 29 (AFP/APP): Two Italian intelligence agents and a former member of the Israeli security forces died when a boat carrying tourists overturned in strong winds on Lake Maggiore in Italy, officials said Monday. A Russian woman was also reportedly killed when the boat […]

Athens, May 29 (AFP/APP): Greece will hold fresh elections on June 25, the president’s office said Monday as Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis seeks to consolidate a May 21 win that left him short of a parliamentary majority. “New elections will be held on June 25,” […]

Makkah Mukarma,May 29 (APP):A total of 773 pilgrims of the government Hajj scheme were given a rousing welcome by the Pakistan Hajj Mission and hotel management upon their arrival in the sacred city of Makkah Mukarrama. Director General Hajj Abdul Wahab Soomro, Director Hajj Faheem […]

Madrid, May 29 (AFP/APP): Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a surprise July 23 snap election on Monday, a day after his Socialists suffered a drubbing in local and regional polls. Widely seen as a dress rehearsal for a general election that had been expected […]

ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): Makkah municipality has completed preparations for Hajj, including recruiting 22,000 workers to boost pilgrim services. Spokesperson Osama Zaituni said that the municipality has mobilized all its human and mechanical capacities, supported by assistance teams including public security and scouts, temporary health […]

Kyiv, May 28 (Online): Russia has carried out a new massive drone attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. Kyiv’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said a man died when drone wreckage fell near a petrol station. A woman was injured. Overall, Russia launched record 54 so-called kamikaze drones […]

ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): Some 171 members including 27 officers of Pakistani contingents serving in UN Peacekeeping mission have sacrificed their lives to ensure international peace On the occasion 75th International Day of Peace Missions which is celebrated on 29th May every year. The sacrifices […]

Madrid, May 28 (AFP/APP): Spaniards were voting Sunday in local and regional polls seen as a barometer for a year-end general election which surveys suggest Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will lose, heralding a return of the right. The stakes are high for Sanchez, whose Socialist […]

Berlin, May 27 (AFP/APP): Hundreds of civil servants and local employees working for German institutions in Russia will need to leave the country or lose their jobs in the coming days following an order by Moscow, Germany’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. Starting from June, […]

WASHINGTON, May 28 (APP):US former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who marked his 100th birthday on Saturday, is best remembered, among other diplomatic undertakings, for his secret 1971 trip to Beijing from Pakistan, that led to a breakthrough in China-US relations. […]