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SHARJAH 09 Sep (Online): Three thousand Dirhams fine has been imposed on spectators, who found involved in post defeat violence in Sharjah Cricket ground. Sharjah Police has also issued warning for the next time that next time they will be jailed or deported. The amount […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept 9 (AFP/APP): Russian forces controlling Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have killed two staff at the facility and detained and abused dozens of others, the head of Ukraine’s nuclear energy agency told AFP on Friday. The Zaporizhzhia plant — the largest in […]

London, Sept 8 (AFP/APP):It is no secret that the UK’s plan for the eventual death of Queen Elizabeth II was codenamed London Bridge. But there were special provisions if the monarch died when she was in Scotland, called Operation Unicorn. The unicorn is the national […]

Paris, Sept 7 (AFP/APP): France’s top judicial court on Wednesday confirmed the conviction of Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in an “ill-gotten gains” case over wealth estimated at 90 million euros ($89 million). Rifaat al-Assad, 85, is the younger brother of Bashar’s […]

Nairobi, Sept 7 (AFP/APP): Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye replaced his prime minister and a top aide in a high-level political purge Wednesday after warning of a “coup” plot against him. Security minister Gervais Ndirakobuca was sworn in before parliament as new premier, capping a day […]

Brussels, Sep 6 (Online): The launching ceremony of the book titled “Conversations with my father – Forty Years on a Daughter Responds” by Moneeza Hashmi, the daughter of renowned Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, was held in Brussels last evening. The ceremony was organized by […]

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”: […]