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Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):Ukraine announced Monday it had received more air defence systems from Western military allies, as officials in Kyiv said the situation with electricity supplies was “tense” after protracted Russian attacks on energy facilities. The defence ministry meanwhile said it was requisitioning […]

Brasília, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):Fresh off a celebratory beach holiday, Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva got down to uglier business Monday: figuring out how to govern with a hostile Congress, nasty budget crunch and impossible-looking to-do list. The political horse-trading of the transition period […]

Baghdad, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):A US citizen who lived in Iraq for two years was shot dead in central Baghdad Monday, Iraqi security sources said, with the motive not immediately clear. The victim was travelling by car “when unknown persons opened fire”, an interior ministry source […]

Sharm El-Sheikh: 7 November (Online): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met on the sidelines of the COP 27 summit in Egypt. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif thanked the UAE leadership and people for their generous assistance to the flood […]

Sharm El-Sheikh: 7 November, (Online): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met with European Union Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen on the sidelines of COP 27. The Prime Minister appreciated the spirit of the European Union countries to help the flood victims in Pakistan. The Prime Minister […]

WASHINGTON – November 6 (ONLINE) Saudi Arabia has shared intelligence with American officials that suggests Iran could be preparing for an imminent attack on the kingdom, three US officials said. “We are concerned about the threat picture, and we remain in constant contact through military […]

MANILA – November 6 (ONLINE) A homemade bomb went off in a bus and killed a passenger and wounded 10 others in a southern Philippine city in an attack authorities suspect may be part of an extortion attempt, officials have said. The bus with an […]

GUANGZHOU, Nov. 6 (Xinhua/APP):German chemical giant BASF SE will invest in a new world-scale Neopentyl Glycol (NPG) plant with an annual production capacity of 80,000 tonnes at its Verbund site in the city of Zhanjiang, south China’s Guangdong Province. With the new NPG plant expected […]

Riffa, Bahrain, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):About 30,000 flag-waving worshippers joined an open-air mass held by Pope Francis in mainly Muslim Bahrain on Saturday, the highlight of his outreach mission to the Gulf. Some of the congregation had tears in their eyes as they waited to see […]

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 05 (APP):The United Nations can be proud of its accomplishments in peacekeeping operations around the world, Pakistan has told a UN panel, but stressed the need for examining the causes of mounting violence and hate speech against it’s peacekeepers. “We condemn attacks […]