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ANKARA, Mar 27 (AA/APP): Women employment rate in Türkiye reached an all-time high of 30.4% last year. The figure increased from 28% in 2021, according to data compiled by Anadolu. This was a recovery from the six-year low of 26.2% in 2020, amid the severe […]

Edinburgh, March 27 (AFP/APP): Humza Yousaf on Monday won the race to become Scotland’s new leader, its youngest and first from a minority ethnic background, charged with reviving a faltering independence movement after Nicola Sturgeon’s long tenure. Yousaf emerged victorious with 52 percent of Scottish […]

Nairobi, March 27 (AFP/APP): A young man was shot dead in Kenya on Monday, a hospital said, as anti-government protests turned increasingly violent, with police firing tear gas at opposition leader Raila Odinga’s convoy and his supporters, and looters going on the rampage. The veteran […]

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Mar 26 (AA/APP): The shortage of naira notes the currency of Nigeria is affecting access to food and other items for displaced people observing Ramadan in the northeast of the West African country, many affected people told Anadolu. Adam Saleh, who lives in […]

Vatican City, March 25 (AFP/APP): Pope Francis on Saturday extended a 2019 law to fight sexual abuse in the Church by making lay Catholic leaders responsible for acts committed under their watch in Vatican-approved bodies. A letter, directly sent by the pontiff, also said that […]

BANGKOK 24 Mar (Online): China threatened “serious consequences” Friday after the US Navy sailed a destroyer around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea for the second day in a row, in a move Beijing claimed was a violation of its sovereignty and […]

Tunis, March 24 (AFP/APP): Thirty-four migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were missing off Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast Friday after their boat capsized, a court official said, the latest in a string of tragedies this month. The boat carrying 38 people had set off Thursday from near Sfax […]

ISLAMABAD, Mar 24 (APP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for “peace, mutual respect and solidarity”, in a message marking the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. Celebrated by millions of Muslims around the world, Ramadan is a time “to come together, bound by […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, March 24 (AFP/APP): A Russian strike on a humanitarian support centre in an eastern Ukraine town killed three people, the emergencies service said on Friday, revising their previous toll of five dead. “The town of Kostyantynivka came under rocket fire during the night […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 23 (APP): A flag hoisting ceremony was held at the Pakistan embassy in Washington D.C. Thursday to mark the 83rd ‘Pakistan Day’. The day is observed with national fervor by members of the Pakistani diaspora, residing in different parts of the United States, […]