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Moscow, April 4 (AFP/APP): The son of a Siberian governor arrested in Italy at Washington’s request announced on Tuesday that he had escaped house arrest in Milan and was back in Russia. Artyom Uss, the son of Krasnoyarsk Governor Alexander Uss, was arrested at Milan’s […]

HELSINKI, Apr 5 (Xinhua/APP):Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced on Wednesday she will step down as the chair of the Social Democratic Party but will remain in the position until the scheduled party convention in September. […]

THE HAGUE, April 4 (Xinhua/APP):At least one person was killed and 30 were injured after a passenger train derailed on Tuesday morning in Voorschoten, a small town in the western Dutch province of South Holland following a collision with a construction crane. The accident occurred […]

Tunis, April 3 (AFP/APP): Tunisian President Kais Saied appeared in a video posted Monday on his official Facebook page, dismissing “mad” reports over his health following almost two weeks with no public engagements. The North African country’s main opposition coalition had pressed the government earlier […]

Paris, April 3 (AFP/APP):The trial of a 69-year-old Lebanese-Canadian charged over a fatal 1980 bomb attack outside a Paris synagogue opened on Monday after more than four decades of legal wrangling. Canada-based Hassan Diab, who denies any involvement in the attack which killed four and […]

Nairobi, April 2 (AFP/APP): Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga announced on Sunday he was calling off a protest on Monday and would embark on dialogue with the government after two weeks of chaotic street demonstrations. Three people have died and properties and businesses have been […]

Helsinki, April 2 (AFP/APP): Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats were tied with the centre-right National Coalition in the first partial results from Sunday’s general election, with the far right trailing in third place. Marin, who became the world’s youngest prime minister in 2019 […]

Afghanistan, Apr 2 (Xinhua/APP):Afghan national police have rescued a businessman from kidnappers’ clutch in Mazar-i-Sharif city, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province, said a statement of the country’s Ministry of Interior on Sunday. The businessman was kidnapped one month ago in Police District 1 […]

BEIJING/ WASHINGTON 01 April (Online): China on Thursday called remarks by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen “irresponsible” and “unreasonable” after Yellen said Beijing’s lending activities leave developing countries “trapped in debt.” Yellen on Wednesday said she was concerned by some of China’s activities globally, particularly […]

DHAKA 01 April (Online): Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday urged Bangladesh to suspend plans to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar warning conditions there would not be safe for the persecuted and stateless minority. Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of whom […]