World

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 […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 02 (APP): As food rationing begins for Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, a top UN rights expert on Thursday urged the international community to step in and reverse the policy as “a matter of life and death”. The development follows the announcement […]

Steccato di Cutro, Italy, March 1 (AFP/APP):It was 4:30 on Sunday morning when Italian fisherman Vincenzo Luciano got a phone call from a friend — something bad had happened in the water. When the 50-year-old arrived at the beach near his home in the southern […]

Budapest, March 1 (AFP/APP): Hungarian lawmakers on Wednesday started debating the NATO bids of Finland and Sweden, with the ruling party voicing concerns ahead of a vote expected this month. The parliamentary voting was officially scheduled for March 6-9, but parliament’s website on Wednesday showed […]

Dakar, March 1 (AFP/APP): Mali’s junta has issued a strongly worded warning to international partners about threats to a major peace deal with armed groups in the country’s north, fuelling fears of renewed hostilities. Colonel Major Ismael Wague, one of the junta’s strongmen, recently wrote […]

Larissa, Greece, March 1 (AFP/APP):Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday said a “tragic human error” was likely responsible for a train collision that has left at least 38 dead in the country’s worst rail tragedy. Two carriages were crushed and a third engulfed in […]