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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 […]

Ottawa, Sept 5 (AFP/APP): Canadian police scoured Saskatchewan and neighboring provinces on Monday in a massive manhunt for two fugitives suspected of carrying out a stabbing spree that killed 10 people and wounded 15. The killings in the James Smith Cree Nation Indigenous community and […]

NEW YORK, Sep 06 (APP):While drawing attention to the huge losses resulting from the deadly floods in Pakistan, Ambassador Munir Akram, the permanent Pakistani representative to the UN, has urged the world community to act in solidarity to combat the worsening effects of climate change […]

Nairobi, Sept 5 (AFP/APP):The UN’s humanitarian chief warned on Monday that drought-ravaged Somalia was on the brink of famine and time was running out to save lives. “Famine is at the door and we are receiving a final warning,” Martin Griffiths, head of the UN’s […]

Washington, Sept 5 (AFP/APP): One person was killed and rescue crews were searching for nine others after a small plane crashed along the coast of the US state of Washington on Sunday, the coast guard said. The US Coast Guard said it received a report […]

Nairobi, Sept 5 (AFP/APP): Raila Amolo Odinga has spent most of his adult life in politics, including eight years in prison as a pro-democracy campaigner, but despite five attempts has never achieved his goal of becoming Kenya’s president. The 77-year-old on Monday lost his fifth […]