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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 […]

NEW YORK, Sep 03 (Online): The United Nations has intensified drive to distribute relief materials to flood-hit people in Pakistan. UN Spokesperson Eri Kaneko in a briefing in New York said that the world body has also deployed 14 mobile clinics to provide health care […]

TEXAS 02 Sep (Online): A Google employee who became a high-profile opponent of the tech giant’s $1 billion artificial intelligence and surveillance contract with the Israeli military announced her resignation. Ariel Koren, a marketing manager with the company, cited what she said is its creation […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 02 (APP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Friday’s attack at a mosque in western Afghanistan that left 18 people dead and 23 injured, according to a UN spokesperson. “The Secretary-General condemns today’s attack and conveys his deep condolences to the families […]

ISLAMABAD, Sep 03 (APP):Pakistan on Friday strongly condemned the heinous terrorist attack on Guzargah Mosque in Herat, Afghanistan in which many precious lives of innocent people have been lost with several injuries. “The Government and people of Pakistan extend deepest sympathies and sincere condolences to […]

Srinagar, Sept 02 (ONLINE): In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, an Indian trooper died under mysterious circumstances in Jammu district. According to MEDIA reports, the Indian trooper identified as Anil Kumar died under mysterious circumstances in the Nagrota Military Cantonment area on the outskirts […]

COLOMBO 01 Sep (Online): Bankrupt Sri Lanka’s deposed former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is expected to end his self-imposed exile in Thailand and return home on Saturday, a top defence official told AFP. The 73-year-old fled the island under military guard in July after a huge […]

HERAT 01 Sep (Online): A blast outside a mosque in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan on Friday killed a high-profile pro-Taliban cleric as well as civilians, police said. “Mujib Rahman Ansari, with some of his guards and civilians, have been killed on their […]

TAIPEI 31 Aug (Online): Taipei and Beijing have traded barbs over a recent string of drone sorties from the Chinese mainland to an outlying Taiwanese island, as Taiwan’s president on Tuesday vowed “strong countermeasures” against such incursions. Photos and video taken by Chinese drones of […]

MUMBAI 31 Aug (Online): India will formally commission its first home-built aircraft carrier on Friday, the culmination of 17 years of construction and tests as the country seeks to catch up with regional rival China and its far larger naval fleet. The INS Vikrant, however, […]