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Moscow, Oct 14 (AFP/APP): An electric substation in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the border, was set on fire by a Ukrainian strike on Friday, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “An electric substation… caught fire after a strike on Belgorod,” Gladkov said on Telegram, […]

Istanbul, Oct 14 (AFP/APP):Nearly 50 coalminers were trapped hundreds of metres below ground on Friday after an unexplained blast tore through a mine in northern Turkey. Television images showed hundreds of people — some with tears in their eyes — congregating around a damaged white […]

Toretsk, Ukraine, Oct 12 (AFP/APP): First there was a teasing crackle of small arms fire then a burst of sharp bangs as Ukrainian assault infantry fired their US-made grenade launder at the Russian positions opposite. The frontline in this part of the Donetsk region in […]

Paris, Oct 10 (AFP/APP):A French trial of Air France and Airbus began Monday on charges of involuntary manslaughter over the fatal 2009 crash of a jet heading to Paris from Brazil, killing all 228 people aboard. Victims’ families and some aviation experts say the pilots […]

United Nations, United States, Oct 10 (AFP/APP):The UN General Assembly meets Monday hours after Russia launched a deadly barrage of missile strikes at cities across Ukraine, as Western powers condemned Moscow’s latest attacks and sought to underscore its isolation. The United Nations called the urgent […]

Sarajevo, Oct 10 (AFP/APP):Bosnia on Monday ordered a recount of last week’s vote for president of Balkan country’s Serb entity, after the opposition disputed the preliminary results calling the elections “a fraud”. The preliminary count suggested that current Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik, who […]

Na Klang, Thailand, Oct 8 (AFP/APP):A red toy truck discarded by the wall and an unmade bed, messy with blankets are tragic reminders of a young life cut short in Thailand’s nursery massacre. Three-year-old Nannaphat Songserm — known by his nickname Stamp — a happy, […]

ANKARA, Oct 4 (AA/APP): Denmark’s queen has apologized just days after stripping four of her grandchildren of royal titles. “I have made my decision as Queen, mother and grandmother, but, as a mother and grandmother, I have underestimated the extent to which much my younger […]

JERUSALEM 30 Sep (Online): A Palestinian boy died of heart failure while being chased by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, his father said, an account disputed by the army while Washington voiced sorrow at the incident and encouraged an investigation. Seven-year-old […]

Berlin, Sept 30 (AFP/APP): Group of Seven foreign ministers said on Friday they would “never recognise” Russia’s annexation of four more regions in Ukraine and pledged further sanctions against Moscow. President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to annex the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions “constitute a […]