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IRBIL, Iraq – February 1 (ONLINE) Unidentified attackers fired eight rockets at a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Wednesday, two of which landed inside the facility, the Counter-Terrorism Group, a security organization in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, said. A Turkish security source said […]

ISLAMABAD – February 1 (ONLINE) British Broad Casters (BBC) has recently revealed shocking documentation, which claimed how the then United States (US) President George W Bush ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to find a ‘replacement’ for the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. According to BBC, […]

Moscow, Feb 1 (AFP/APP):Russia on Wednesday criticised comments by French President Emmanuel Macron, who refused this week to rule out delivering fighter jets to Ukraine, while warning against the risk of escalation. “Forgive me but this is absurd,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters […]

Makkah,, Feb 1 (SPA/APP): General President of the Affairs of the Grand Holy Mosque and Prophet’s Holy Mosque Sheikh Dr. Abdulrahman Al-Sudais inaugurated on Tuesday 4 new machines to clean the Grand Holy Mosque and its yards and to ensure the continuity of using artificial […]

ANKARA, Feb 1 (AA/APP): Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Wednesday will pay a visit to Estonia to meet his counterpart Urmas Reinsalu, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. “At the meetings, all aspects of our bilateral relations will be elaborated and Türkiye-EU relations […]

ANKARA, Feb 1 (AA/APP): Greece will not provide German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, the country’s premier said on Tuesday, arguing that Athens has already given Kyiv significant military support including armored personnel carriers. “We will not provide Leopard 2 tanks for the simple reason […]

BEIJING, Jan 31 (APP): China on Tuesday strongly condemned Monday’s suicide bombing at a mosque in Peshawar that left scores of people martyred. “The Chinese side is deeply shocked by the incident and expressed deep condolences to the victims and members of the bereaved families,” […]

ISTANBUL, Jan 31 (AA/APP): Turkmenistan’s president hosted the chairman of Russia’s State Duma for talks on bilateral relations and inter-parliamentary cooperation in the capital Ashgabat. Serdar Berdimuhamedov and Vyacheslav Volodin, head of Russia’s lower house of parliament, reaffirmed a “mutual desire for further development of […]

Paris, Jan 31 (AFP/APP): Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused Ukraine of using banned anti-personnel landmines against invading Russian forces, saying almost 50 civilians, including five children, had been wounded. Ukraine’s defence ministry insisted the army upholds its treaty obligations against mines, but will not […]

DHAKA, Jan. 31 (Xinhua/APP) –: In an apparent bid to ease the subsidy burden, the Bangladeshi government has again raised the prices of power at both the wholesale and retail levels. The new rates will come into effect from Feb. 1, 2023, according to a […]