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KABUL 29 Dec (Online): G7 foreign ministers on Thursday called on the Taliban to “urgently reverse” a ban on women working in Afghanistan’s aid sector. The ban is the latest blow against women’s rights in Afghanistan since the Taliban reclaimed power last year. The Taliban […]

MOSCOW, Russia – December 28 (ONLINE) No “peace plan” on Ukraine is possible if it does not account for four new regions joining Russia, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Wednesday. “To begin with, so far, there is no Ukrainian ‘peace plan’ of any […]

TAL AVIV, Israel – December 28 (ONLINE) Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has finalised coalition deals with allied parties, their spokespeople said, in final steps toward his political comeback at the head of one of the most right-wing governments in Israel’s history. Netanyahu, whose bloc of […]

Washington, Dec 28 (AFP/APP):The European Union and the United States urged Kosovo and Serbia Wednesday to take “immediate” steps to deescalate tensions amid mounting unrest in their border region. “The European Union and the United States of America are concerned about the continued tense situation […]

Ottawa, Dec 28 (AFP/APP):A group of countries led by Canada on Wednesday called for an arbitrator to settle claims against Iran over its shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January 2020. The move is a first step in possibly bringing a case against […]

KYIV, Ukraine – December 27 (ONLINE) A dramatic fall in the birth rate is expected in Ukraine next year and it is quite possible that the country’s population may decrease to 35 million or less by 2030, Ella Libanova, Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of […]

BEIJING, China – December 27 (ONLINE) People in China have reacted with joy and rushed to plan trips overseas after Beijing said it would scrap mandatory Covid quarantine for overseas arrivals that will end almost three years of self-imposed isolation. In a snap move late […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 28 (APP):The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, Tuesday called on the Taliban to revoke immediately a raft of policies that target the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan, saying that they cause “terrible, cascading effects” on their lives […]

Montpellier, France, Dec 27 (AFP/APP): France has charged a suspect in the hit-and-run death of a teenage boy during celebrations of France’s win over Morocco in the World Cup semi-finals, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The 14-year-old boy, Aymen, was killed on December 15 in the […]

BELGRADE – December 27 (ONLINE) Serbia has placed its security forces on the border with Kosovo in a “full state of combat readiness”, senior officials have said, amid increasingly strained relations with its neighbour and despite calls by the European Union and NATO for tensions […]