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Tbilisi, March 9 (AFP/APP): Georgia’s ruling party announced Thursday it was halting plans to introduce a “foreign agent” law similar to Russia’s, but the opposition vowed to step up protests. Concern has been growing that the ex-Soviet nation, which aspires to join the EU and […]

Athens, March 8 (AFP/APP):Over 50,000 people were demonstrating around Greece on Wednesday, police said, in a mass outpouring of anger over last week’s rail disaster that claimed 57 lives. The protests were held as train workers, civil servants, ferry crew members, doctors and teachers staged […]

New York, March 7 (AFP/APP): British architect and urban planner David Chipperfield won the 2023 Pritzker Prize, organizers of the profession’s most prestigious award announced Tuesday. The 69-year-old was honored for “timeless modern design that confronts climate urgencies, transforms social relationships and reinvigorates cities,” they […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 06 (APP):The United Nations humanitarian team had reached more than seven million flood-it people in Pakistan with food and other essential services in the past six months, as part of the Government-led response to the devastating floods, a UN spokesman said Monday. […]

WASHINGTON 05 Mar (Online): Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley vowed Friday to stop giving money to the “countries that hate America”. Haley, who announced her 2024 presidential bid last month, said she took names of the 128 countries that condemned the US when it decided […]

DOHA 05 Mar (Online): The Qatari leader has called out the international community to help Türkiye and Syria overcome the devastation left by the Feburary 6 earthquakes. Speaking at the opening plenary session of the 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) on […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 04 (APP): The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has voiced alarm at an Israeli regime minister’s “unfathomable” call for the obliteration of an entire Palestinian village. Turk made the remarks in Geneva on Friday, days after the Israeli Finance […]

Islamabad, Mar 3 (Online): Two Indonesian cyclists, Asid Kusuma Atmaja and Yunus started their long-awaited spiritual journey to Makkah on bicycles from Indonesia in August 2022 to spread the message of peace, tolerance, and kindness. After traveling with bycycles across five countries; Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 03 (APP): Cindy McCain, wife of the late U.S. Republican Senator John McCain, will head the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), a Rome-based United Nations agency, according to a UN announcement Ms. McCain is currently the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations […]

Ouagadougou, March 3 (AFP/APP): A line of cars and motorcycles cuts across the arid West African landscape, kicking up clouds of dust on the unpaved road. Their destination: Toeghin Peulh, a village 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou that has become […]