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Islamabad, 16 February 2023 (Online): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif was received by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at Presidential Complex in Ankara today. During their tete-a-tete as well as during the delegation level talks, the Prime Minister extended heartfelt condolences to President Erdogan and the […]

Edinburgh, Feb 15 (AFP/APP): Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced her surprise resignation Wednesday after more than eight eventful years, starting the race for a new leader to deliver on her party’s faltering campaign for independence. In a hastily arranged news conference, the Scottish National […]

Pavlohrad, Ukraine, Feb 13 (AFP/APP): At a hospital a short drive from the scene of fierce fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, two orderlies carefully carry an injured soldier onto a medical bus. Four others soon join him on individual beds on […]

HONG KONG,Feb 13 (Xinhua/APP):An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted Kermadec Islands, New Zealand at 09:18:07 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 374.033 km, was initially determined to be at 29.5218 degrees south latitude and 177.9727 […]

Brussels, Feb 12 (AFP/APP): Long-serving NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg has no plans to extend his mandate for a fourth time and expects to be replaced in October, the military alliance said Sunday. “The mandate of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has been extended three times and […]

Nicosia, Feb 12 (AFP/APP): Cyprus went to the polls Sunday for a tightly fought presidential runoff between two career diplomats seeking the top post in the south of the divided Mediterranean island. Polling stations close at 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) in the race to succeed […]

WASHINGTON 11 Feb (Online): A US F-22 fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska, US officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States. A Sidewinder missile […]

WASHINGTON 11 Feb (Online): Only 37 percent Democrats want President Joe Biden to seek re-election in 2024 while 70 percent of general voters do not want him to seek a second term. The findings of these recent opinion polls were highlighted in the US media […]

Kano, Nigeria, Feb 9 (AFP/APP):It was just after dawn and tempers were fraying outside the First Bank in the northern Nigerian town of Kano, where scores of customers jostled to get on a waiting list to withdraw money. Long before the branch had opened its […]

Bucharest, Feb 9 (AFP/APP): Moldova’s intelligence service said Thursday that Russia was acting to destabilise the ex-Soviet country, following comments by Ukraine’s president that Kyiv had intercepted a plan by Moscow. “SIS confirms that, both from the information presented by our Ukrainian partner and also […]