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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 […]

London, United Kingdom, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): Christian Aid and ActionAid on Monday became the latest foreign aid groups to suspend operations in Afghanistan after the country’s Taliban rulers ordered all NGOs to stop women staff from working. Announcements by the two groups take to six […]

Beirut, Dec 26 (AFP/APP):Eight Turkey-backed Syrian fighters were killed in clashes with regime troops that raged Monday in the country’s northwest, a rebel alliance said. A statement from the Faylaq al-Sham group said six of its fighters were killed and three more wounded in an […]

BEIJING, Dec 24 (APP):: Director General, Department of Asian Affairs of Chinese Foreign Ministry Liu Jinsong has said that Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to China in November was a great success with fruitful outcomes, and provided new guidance for China-Pakistan relations. “China is […]

Paris, Dec 24 (AFP/APP):A French man suspected of killing three people in a “racist” attack at a Kurdish cultural centre in Paris has been transferred to a psychiatric unit, prosecutors said, as police and demonstrators clashed in the French capital. Prosecutors said the 69-year-old white […]

London, Dec 21 (AFP/APP): Striking ambulance workers in England and Wales manned picket lines on Wednesday, escalating a pay dispute between the government and a host of public-sector staff. A series of stoppages are causing misery across Britain in the run-up to Christmas, with railway […]

Washington, Dec 21 (AFP/APP):The United States said Wednesday it will provide Ukraine with the advanced Patriot air defence system to help counter Moscow’s relentless aerial attacks. The system is part of $1.85 billion in assistance unveiled in parallel with a visit to Washington by Ukrainian […]