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BEIJING 08 April (Online): China will continue to work hard to promote early and proper settlement of the Palestinian issue, its foreign ministry quoted China’s special envoy for Middle East affairs as saying on Friday. China is deeply concerned about the heightened conflict that Israel […]

Jerusalem, April 7 (AFP/APP): Israel launched air strikes before dawn on Friday in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, saying it was targeting Hamas in retaliation for several dozen rockets fired at Israel from both territories. The strikes were launched around 4:30 am Israeli time (0130 […]

Ankara, April 6 (AFP/APP): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Turkey on Thursday, a Turkish official told AFP, for talks that include the future of a key deal that allows grain exports from Ukrainian ports through a safe corridor in the Black Sea. Lavrov […]

Paris, April 5 (AFP/APP): French unions said last-ditch talks with the prime minister on Wednesday had failed to ease tensions over a divisive pension reform and called for record turnout at protest rallies the next day. President Emmanuel Macron is facing the biggest challenge of […]

Helsinki, April 5 (AFP/APP): Finns voted on Sunday in legislative elections that could see the country take a dramatic turn to the right, as centre-right and anti-immigration parties vie to unseat Social Democratic Prime Minister Sanna Marin. After the breakthrough by nationalists in neighbouring Sweden […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 05 (APP):UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland on Wednesday appealed for Israeli and Palestinian leaders to exercise restraint following the latest violence that followed the storming of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque by Israeli forces who also arrested more than 350 people. The raids […]

Rio de Janeiro, April 5 (AFP/APP): A 25-year-old attacker burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children Wednesday with a hatchet-like weapon before turning himself in to police, authorities said. Police and government officials in the state of Santa Catarina said the […]

Moscow, April 5 (AFP/APP): President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Western security services of having helped Kyiv stage “terror attacks” in Russia, after giving an icy welcome to the new US and EU ambassadors. His Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky meanwhile made a rare foreign visit […]

Stockholm, April 4 (AFP/APP): While Finland Tuesday became a full NATO member, Sweden’s membership bid remains blocked, an “embarrassing” delay if short-lived but which could make Sweden more vulnerable and create problems within NATO if it drags on, experts told AFP. Finland became the 31st […]

New York, April 4 (AFP/APP): Hoards of reporters, police and barriers greeted Donald Trump when he arrived at his Manhattan residence Monday — but only a small group of supporters. Just before midday, authorities closed off Trump Tower to the public, as a heavy police […]