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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 […]

Astana, Kazakhstan, Sept 17 (AFP/APP): Kazakhstan’s president on Saturday signed a law limiting presidential terms and reverting to the old name of the Central Asian country’s capital, in the latest step of breaking with the legacy of his predecessor. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a bill […]

JAKARTA, Sept. 17 (Xinhua/APP): Twenty miners have been buried after landslides occured in a traditional gold mine in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, a rescue operation chief said on Saturday. The incident took place at the Kinande village of Bengkayang district on Thursday night, but the […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 16 (APP): Turkish security forces “neutralized” two YPG/PKK terrorists in northern Syria, Türkiye’s National Defense Ministry said on Friday. The terrorists were planning an attack on the Operation Peace Spring zone, Türkiye’s cross-border anti-terror push, according to the ministry. Turkish authorities use the […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept 15 (AFP/APP): EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday that war-torn Ukraine would have Europe’s support for “as long as it takes”, as she visited Kyiv for talks on closer integration with the bloc. Her trip coincided with a meeting between […]

Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sept 15 (AFP/APP): Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met for their first face-to-face talks since the start of the conflict in Ukraine on Thursday, hailing their strategic ties in defiance of the West. Sitting across from each other at […]

Washington, Sept 15 (AFP/APP): The White House on Thursday slammed Republican governors for headline-grabbing transfers of undocumented migrants into Democratic-led areas as “cruel” and “shameful.” The use of migrants as “political pawns” in the debate over illegal immigration ahead of November midterm elections is a […]

Paris, Sept 14 (AFP/APP): France has rejected a request from a visiting delegation of Canadian Inuit to extradite a priest accused of sexual assault on young members of the Indigenous minority in the 1960s. The justice ministry said that in a meeting late Tuesday, the […]

Tehran, Sept 14 (AFP/APP):The crew of one of two Greek oil tankers seized by Iranian armed forces in May have been replaced by their company, Iran’s foreign ministry said Wednesday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized the ships in the Gulf days after Greece said […]