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Moscow, Sept 22 (AFP/APP): President Vladimir Putin’s ally Viktor Medvedchuk and 55 servicemen were handed over to Russia in a record-high prisoner swap with Kyiv, a leader of Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine confirmed Thursday. “Fifty-six people were released, 55 of them servicemen… Viktor Medvedchuk […]

Phnom Penh, Sept 22 (AFP/APP): Cambodia’s UN-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court gave its final verdict Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on the regime’s last surviving leader. The tribunal was ruling on an appeal by Khieu Samphan, head of state for […]

United Nations, United States, Sept 21 (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden tore into Vladimir Putin at the United Nations on Wednesday, hours after the Russian leader dramatically escalated his seven-month war in Ukraine by calling up 300,000 military reservists. Biden accused Putin of “shamelessly” violating […]

ANKARA – September 21 (ONLINE) The leaders of Israel and Turkey have held face-to-face talks for the first time since 2008, as ties between the two countries continue to warm. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a meeting on […]

Manila, Sept 21 (AFP/APP): Philippine protesters vowed Wednesday to “never forget” the human rights abuses under former dictator Ferdinand Marcos as they held rallies to mark 50 years since his imposition of martial law. Amnesty International estimates thousands of people were killed and tens of […]

JERUSALAM 20 Sep (Online): Senior diplomate Irit Lillian will be the new ambassador to Turkiye for the first time in four year, the announcement made by Israeli Foreign ministry on Monday. Irit Lillian has been inchage of Israeli embassy in Ankara for last two years. […]

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 […]