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Lima, Jan 24 (AFP/APP):Riot police tossed tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters in new unrest in Peru’s capital on Monday, and the nation’s interior minister said there was no end in sight to the tumult gripping the nation. Several hundred protesters marched in colonial central […]

Prague, Jan 24 (AFP/APP):Poland and the Baltic states cried foul Monday after Czech presidential candidate Andrej Babis said that, if elected, he would not send troops to help them under NATO’s collective defence. Billionaire ex-premier Babis is running for president and will face former NATO […]

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 […]