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Tehran, Nov 15 (AFP/APP):Prominent Iranian dissident Hossein Ronaghi has been taken back to prison after receiving hospital treatment following more than 50 days on hunger strike, the judiciary said Tuesday. “He has been discharged from hospital after being examined by doctors and has returned to […]

Paris, Nov 15 (AFP/APP):TotalEnergies and Italian hydrocarbon giant ENI have signed a framework agreement with Israel over a gas field shared with Lebanon, the French energy giant said Tuesday. It comes after Lebanon and Israel said in October that they had struck an “historic” deal […]

BALI, INDONESIA – November 14 (ONLINE) US President Joe Biden on Monday had a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, where the two leaders stressed the need to work together as they met for talks in Bali ahead of a Group of 20 summit, […]

Paris, Nov 14 (AFP/APP):The French and British coastguard services passed the buck as a dinghy packed with migrants sank in the Channel last year, leading to the most deadly such accident on record, according to reports on Monday. Le Monde newspaper in France published revelations […]

London, Nov 14 (AFP/APP):Britain announced Monday that it would cut short its troop deployment with the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali after relations with the country’s Russian-backed junta soured. “I can announce that the UK contingent will… now be leaving the MINUSMA mission earlier than […]

Nairobi, Nov 14 (AFP/APP):The United States said Monday it was increasing its reward for information about key leaders of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab to $10 million apiece, a move that follows a spate of deadly attacks by the jihadist group. The US State Department also said it […]

WASHINGTON 13 Nov (Online): President Joe Biden’s Democrats have retained control of the US Senate, according to Edison Research projections, a remarkable midterms election result that defied predictions of a Republican “red wave” over both houses of Congress. US networks late on Saturday called the […]

Ljubljana, Nov 13 (AFP/APP):Slovenians were voting on Sunday in a run-off poll expected to elect the country’s first woman president — a lawyer linked to former US first lady Melania Trump. Natasa Pirc Musar, backed by the centre-left government, is running against ex-foreign minister Anze […]

ISLAMABAD, Nov 12 (APP):Pakistan High Commissioner to Canada Zaheer A. Janjua has hailed the conferment of Canada’s annual Gairdner International Award on eminent Pakistani healthcare professional Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta for his development and evaluation of evidence-based interventions in child and maternal health for marginalised populations. […]

NEW YORK, Nov 12 (APP):The United States has returned 192 stolen antiquities — valued at nearly $3.4 million — to Pakistan, after an investigation into a notorious Indian-American art dealer, Subhash Kapoor, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office in New York announced Friday. The announcement said […]