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London, Jan 15 (AFP/APP): London is on track to transform a disused stretch of elevated railway in the heart of the city into a “park in the sky”, emulating similar successful schemes in Paris and New York. Local planning officials are poised to give the […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Jan 15 (AFP/APP): Ukraine said Sunday that the death toll had risen to 21 after a Russian missile slammed into a tower block in the city of Dnipro during a massive wave of strikes causing power outages and blackouts across the war-torn country. […]

WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (XINHUA/APP):U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union address to the divided Congress next month, the White House said on Friday. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden had accepted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s invitation to […]

Prague, Jan 14 (AFP/APP): Polling stations closed after day one of Czech presidential polls Friday with a billionaire, a general and an academic leading in the first of a likely two-round vote seen as too close to call. The winner will replace Milos Zeman, an […]

Lima, Jan 13 (AFP/APP): Weeks-long protests that have killed dozens across Peru continued on Thursday, with escalating tensions in the Andean city Cusco prompting the government to preemptively close the tourist hub’s airport. Supporters of ousted president Pedro Castillo have marched and barricaded streets around […]

ANKARA, Jan 12 (AA/APP): A former US pilot in Australia will fight his extradition order after Canberra accepted Washington’s request to extradite him, who is accused of training Chinese pilots, local media reported on Tuesday. Former US Marine Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, is being held […]

Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Jan 12 (AFP/APP):Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said fighting is still raging in a key eastern frontline city that a Russian mercenary group earlier said it controlled, as Moscow announced a new military commander in Ukraine. The fate of Soledar in eastern Ukraine […]

Sydney, Jan 11 (AFP/APP): Cardinal George Pell, a senior figure in the Catholic Church who was convicted and later cleared of sexual abuse in Australia, has died in Rome aged 81, a church official confirmed Wednesday. From humble beginnings in regional Australia, Pell climbed the […]

Washington, Jan 11 (AFP/APP): The United States on Wednesday holds talks on ways to “modernize” its alliance with Japan, which plans to ramp up its defences. The Japanese foreign and defence ministers were in Washington for talks with their counterparts two days before a visit […]

SYDNEY,Jan 11 (Xinhua/APP): Authorities of Australia’s state of New South Wales (NSW) will take measure to reduce bushfire risks as the country enters hot summer. Julieanne Doyle, team leader of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), said on Wednesday that the […]