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Kyiv, Ukraine, July 17 (AFP/APP): The European Union will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, as Moscow is accused of using the continent’s largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and launch missiles on the surrounding regions of southern Ukraine. The situation at the […]

Banjul, Gambia, July 17 (AFP/APP): When Muhammed Sandeng first learned that his father, political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng, had been tortured to death at the Gambian national spy agency’s headquarters, he felt one emotion above all else. “It was all fear — fear, fear, fear […]

RYADH: Saudi Arabia and United States have affirmed the importance of resolving international disputes through peaceful and diplomatic means. US President Joe Biden who is on an official visit to Saudi Arab held meeting with King Salman Bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. […]

COLOMBO 16 July (Online): Sri Lanka’s ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled overseas this week to escape a popular uprising against his government, has said he took “all possible steps” to avert the economic crisis that has engulfed the island nation. Over 100 police and […]

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16 (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden is set to discuss volatile oil prices during a summit with Arab leaders on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, the final stop of his Middle East tour. The meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second city on […]

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16 (AFP/APP): A multinational peacekeeping force will leave a strategic Red Sea island by the end of the year, the White House said Friday, potentially boosting opportunities for future contact between Saudi Arabia and Israel. “International peacekeepers, including US troops, will […]

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 16 (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden is set to discuss volatile oil prices during a summit with Arab leaders on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, the final stop of his Middle East tour. On his first trip to the region as president, […]

Colombo, July 14 (AFP/APP): Sri Lanka’s president submitted his resignation shortly after reaching Singapore on Thursday, the parliamentary speaker’s office said, days after the head of state fled protests triggered by his country’s worst-ever economic crisis. Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s emailed resignation would be examined before a […]

Bali, Indonesia, July 9 (AFP/APP):The United States and China held “constructive” talks Saturday, Washington’s top diplomat said, after an unusually long meeting aimed at preventing bilateral tensions from spiralling out of control. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held their first […]

Tunis, July 9 (AFP/APP): Libya’s Fathi Bashagha, appointed as prime minister in a challenge to a unity government in Tripoli, plans to take office in the capital “in the coming days”, he told AFP. Libya’s parliament picked the former interior minister in February to lead […]