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London, Sept 6 (AFP/APP): Liz Truss on Tuesday set out three “early priorities” for her government in her first speech as Britain’s new prime minister. Here are the key points of her speech: – Economy – “We need to build roads, homes and broadband faster. […]

Brussels, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):A coalition of European news agencies, backed by funding from the European Commission, launched a new joint newsroom in Brussels on Tuesday. The 16 agencies — dpa, AFP, AGERPRES, ANSA, APA, ATA, Belga, BTA, EFE, Europa Press, FENA, HINA, MIA, STA, Tanjug […]

Beni, DR Congo, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):A man was killed Tuesday in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during a protest against United Nations peacekeepers, a police spokesman said, in the latest violence in the troubled region. UN troops had been passing through the town of Beni […]

London, Sept 6 (AFP/APP): The leading cabinet lieutenants of Britain’s third woman prime minister share her right-wing ideology. They are all also people of colour. For the first time in UK history, no white men will occupy any of the four “great offices of state”: […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 07 (APP): With United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres getting ready to leave for Pakistan Wednesday night to see for himself the havoc wreaked by what he calls “a monsoon on steroids”, the UN team in the country and its partners to continue […]

MOSCOW 06 Sep (Online): Two Russian embassy staff was killed on Monday in a suicide bombing near the country’s diplomatic mission in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. It said there were also casualties among Afghan civilians. “On September 5, at 10:50 […]

BEIJING 06 Sep (Online): The death toll from the strongest earthquake to hit China’s southwestern Sichuan province since 2017 rose to 65 on Tuesday as rescuers rushed to reach hundreds of stranded people, restore utilities and send emergency relief. Nearly 250 people were being treated […]

Ussuriysk, Russia, Sept 6 (AFP/APP): President Vladimir Putin attended large-scale military exercises on Tuesday involving China and several Russia-friendly countries as Moscow seeks to strengthen partnerships in Asia in the face of Western sanctions. Russia has found itself increasingly isolated as tensions between Moscow and […]

Islamabad: Pakistan strongly condemns the dastardly suicide attack outside the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kabul today that has resulted in the loss of precious lives of Russian diplomats and Afghan nationals, as well as many others injured. An attack on a Diplomatic Mission […]

Santiago, Sept 5 (AFP/APP): Chileans have overwhelmingly rejected a draft constitution that would have replaced the constitution adopted during Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Analysts say some of the proposals it contained were too radical for most voters — a majority of whom have made it clear […]