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Jakarta, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):One of the bombmakers in the Bali blasts that killed more than 200 people two decades ago was released on parole on Wednesday, an Indonesian official said, months after Jakarta reduced his 20-year prison sentence. Umar Patek was a member of an […]

Lima, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):Peru’s Congress on Wednesday impeached President Pedro Castillo, sacking him as it ignored his decision to dissolve the legislature. Facing his third impeachment attempt in almost 18 months of power, Castillo announced in a televised address to the nation that he was […]

Maputo, Dec 7 (AFP/APP): A Mozambican court on Wednesday sentenced two ex-spy bosses and the son of a former president to 12 years each for their part in a corruption scandal in which the government sought to conceal huge debts, triggering financial havoc. The former […]

Paris, Dec 6 (AFP/APP): French President Emmanuel Macron is set to make a second attempt at increasing expulsions of illegal immigrants under fierce pressure from his far-right opponents. Macron’s centrist government unveiled the outlines of a new draft immigration law on Tuesday that will be […]

Washington, Dec 6 (AFP/APP): The United States said Tuesday it was “not encouraging” Ukraine to strike into Russia after drone attacks on bases widely seen as carried out by Kyiv. “We are not enabling Ukraine to strike beyond its borders; we are not encouraging Ukraine […]

Johannesburg, Dec 5 (AFP/APP):South Africa’s ruling ANC party rallied around embattled President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday, on the eve of a parliamentary vote that could lead to his impeachment. In an eventful day, Ramaphosa, who has been under heavy political pressure, mounted an 11th-hour legal […]

Moscow, Dec 5 (AFP/APP):A Russian prosecutor on Monday requested a nine-year prison sentence for Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin for denouncing Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in Ukraine. “The prosecutor requested nine years of imprisonment,” said a statement on the Telegram account of Yashin, 39, who is […]

Brussels, Dec 4 (AFP/APP):EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday the bloc must act to address “distortions” created by Washington’s $430-billion plan to spur climate-friendly technologies in the United States. The European Union must “take action to rebalance the playing field where the IRA […]

Nairobi, Dec 4 (AFP/APP):The commander-in-chief of the Tigray rebel forces said that 65 percent of his forces had “disengaged”, a month after a ceasefire agreement over Ethiopia’s war-torn northern region. “We have started disengagement and relocation of our forces from battlelines… out of our forces, […]

WASHINGTON, Dec 03 (APP):The United States Friday condemned the attack on the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul targeting its head of mission, Ubaid Nizamani, and called for a full investigation. “We offer our sympathies and wish a quick recovery to those affected by the violence,” State […]