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Tunis, March 17 (AFP/APP): Tunisian interior minister Taoufik Charfeddine, a close aide of President Kais Saied, announced Friday he had resigned to spend more time with his children following the death of his wife last year. Charfeddine, 54, who had held his post since October […]

Cairo, March 18 (AFP/APP): Turkey’s top diplomat said Saturday President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would meet to mark the end of a decade of estrangement between the two countries. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, speaking alongside his Egyptian counterpart Sameh […]

BEIJING, Mar 18 (APP): China is ready to work with Pakistan to advance friendly cooperation and promote the construction of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and all-round cooperation between the two countries for greater progress, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang said during his […]

MOSCOW 17 Mar (Online): Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in Russia next week for a state visit after he was invited by President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Friday. The two-day trip beginning on Monday comes as Beijing offers to broker peace in […]

ISLAMABAD 17 Mar (Online): North Korea has launched its largest Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), fired during a drill to demonstrate a “tough response posture” to ongoing US-South Korea military drills, state media reported. Photos released on Friday by the country’s government media showed Kim […]

ISLAMABAD, March 17 (Online): Pakistan while welcoming the restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia has said “we are desirous of peace in the region and we will fully support the steps on restoration of peace. “The nuclear program matter is not on the […]

Beijing, March 17 (AFP/APP): Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Moscow next week, where he will hold talks with his strategic ally Vladimir Putin just over a year into Russia’s war in Ukraine. Xi will be in Russia from Monday to […]

Washington, March 16 (AFP/APP): Former Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti won his tumultuous bid to become US ambassador to India on Wednesday, filling a key diplomatic position that has been vacant for more than two years. The 52-year-old Democrat was nominated by President Joe Biden […]

Washington (PNI) Arresting Imran Khan will only deepen the crisis in Pakistan, says former US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Zalmay Khalilzad. In a series of tweets, Khalilzad offered Islamabad advice on how to deal with the political, economic and security crises being faced by […]

Tashkent, March 15 (AFP/APP): A constitutional referendum set for late April in Uzbekistan could extend President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s rule of the Central Asian nation for at least another decade, authorities announced Wednesday. Mirziyoyev came to power in 2016 after the death of his autocratic predecessor […]