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Brussels, March 20 (AFP/APP): Aid organisations urged international donors at a funding conference in Brussels on Monday to step up their support for the victims of the devastating earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria last month. The catastrophic 7.8-magnitude quake flattened entire cities, killing more […]

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, March 20 (AFP/APP): Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday blasted as “inflammatory” remarks made by far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that Palestinians do not exist. “There are no Palestinians, because there are no Palestinian people,” Smotrich said Sunday, quoting French-Israeli […]

LONDON 19 Mar (Online): UK officials have told Afghans hiding from the Taliban they will need documentation approved by the regime in Kabul to travel to Britain, an investigation by the Independent has found. Thousands of people are currently awaiting the chance to leave the […]

RIYADH 19 Mar (Online): Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Sunday he will meet his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan “in the near future”, adding that three locations have been proposed for the meeting. Amirabdollahian made it clear that based on the […]

ISLAMABAD 19 Mar (Online): A flight instructor and a woman trainee pilot were killed as a trainer aircraft crashed on Sunday in a hilly region of central India infested by Maoist-inspired Naxalite insurgents. According to Indian media reports, the aircraft belonging to the Indira Gandhi […]

AARHUS, Denmark ,March 18 (AA/APP) —:As the wave of solidarity and grief continues to resonate all over the world after last month’s powerful earthquakes in southern Türkiye, the Turkish diaspora in Denmark has been on the forefront to help their compatriots in need. One place […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (APP): The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a UN-brokered deal aimed at supplying markets with food and fertilizer amid global shortages and rising prices, exacerbated by the Ukraine war, was extended on Saturday, the day it was due to expire. The announcement […]

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 […]