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Tbilisi, Sept 20 (AFP/APP): Police in Georgia on Tuesday freed 14 hostages who were held by an armed man at a bank in the country’s second-largest city of Kutaisi, officials said. “All the 14 hostages were freed and the hostage-taker arrested,” the Black Sea nation’s […]

NEW YORK, Sep 20 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday met French President Emmanuel Macron, and expressed gratitude for solidarity and support for the flood-affected people and for sending timely assistance of tents, water pumps and a team of doctors and nurses. During the […]

Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Sept 20 (AFP/APP): Lurking in a gulley in a Ukrainian forest grove, the ageing Soviet-era Akatsiya 2S3 howitzer may be advanced in years but is not being retired just yet. Ukraine’s army prefers more efficient Western weapons, but it was forced to deploy […]

Kupiansk, Ukraine, Sept 19 (AFP/APP):Ukraine’s troops retook almost all of the Kharkiv region in their lightning counter-offensive, but in the city of Kupiansk — split in two by the Oskil River — Russian forces are fighting to hold on. So recent is the Ukrainian victory […]

Tehran, Sept 19 (AFP/APP):Fresh protests broke out Monday in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the “morality police” that enforces a strict dress code, local media reported. Demonstrations were held in the capital Tehran, including several of its […]

LONDON, Sep 19 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif Monday here interacted with world leaders, United Kingdom’s former prime ministers and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at a reception hosted by the British Foreign Secretary. The British Foreign Secretary hosted the reception at Church House […]

Pontida, Italy, Sept 18 (AFP/APP): Italy’s anti-immigration leader Matteo Salvini, who is trailing the far-right’s Giorgia Meloni in the polls ahead of next week’s general election, sought on Sunday to galvanise his hard-right, populist, eurosceptic base. “This is Italy, full of hope and dreams and […]

GUIYANG 18 Sep (Online): A bus crash killed 27 people in southwest China on Sunday, police said, and the country’s deadliest road accident so far this year. The accident took place on a highway in rural Guizhou province when the vehicle carrying a total of […]

TOKYO 18 Sep (Online): Thousands of people took refuge in shelters in southwestern Japan on Sunday as powerful Typhoon Nanmadol churned towards the region, prompting authorities to urge over four million residents to evacuate. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued a rare “special warning” […]

WASHINGTON 18 Sep (Online): A prominent US lawmaker on Sunday described the $53million USAID to flood-ravaged Pakistan as a ‘drop in the bucket’ and urged President Joe Biden’s administration to do much more for the relief of an estimated 30 million displaced people in the […]