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Doha, June 29 (AFP/APP): Iran said it was “serious” about nuclear talks with the United States but that negotiations could end after just two days on Wednesday, as they try to revive a landmark deal. The indirect negotiations in Qatar are an attempt to reboot […]

Paris, June 29 (AFP/APP):A French court is to hand down verdicts Wednesday against 20 men accused over the November 2015 terror attacks in Paris, after a marathon 10-month trial that reopened the scars of modern France’s worst peacetime atrocity. One hundred and thirty people were […]

Paris, June 29 (AFP/APP): A French appeals court on Wednesday turned down Italy’s request to extradite 10 former members of left-wing Italian extremist groups exiled in France for their involvement in violence decades ago. The ultra-leftist Red Brigades and other armed groups sowed chaos during […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 29 (APP):A top Pakistani diplomat has urged the G-7 industrial countries, which are meeting at summit level in Germany, to demand from India to lift its “massive restrictions on information”, including all the Pakistan accounts New Delhi has blocked. In a tweet […]

Vienna, June 29 (AFP/APP): One person has died, while another has been reported missing, officials said on Wednesday, after landslides caused by heavy rains cut off access to several communities and waged widespread damage in southern Austria. Record rain falls overnight Tuesday to Wednesday sparked […]

Gorongosa, Mozambique, June 29 (AFP/APP): As Mozambique battles a brutal insurgency, the legacy of a decades-long civil war still haunts the African nation where many former rebels refuse to disarm. “It’s hard to live alone, with nothing, living without family nearby,” said Aurelio Capece Mudiua, […]

ISLAMABAD, Jun 29 (APP):Journalists should not be jailed for what they write, tweet and say, a spokesperson for UN chief Antonio Guterres said in response to the arrest of Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair in India, asserting that it is important that people be allowed […]

Oksbøl, Denmark, June 29 (AFP/APP): Built on the site of a camp for German World War II refugees, a new Danish museum opening Wednesday shines fresh light on personal stories of forced migration, past and present. The new FLUGT (“flee” in Danish) Refugee Museum of […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 29 (APP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked both the United States and Mexican authorities to probe and bring to justice those responsible for the death of a number of migrants found in the trailer of an abandoned truck in San Antonio […]

Caracas, June 29 (AFP/APP): The main bloc of Venezuelan opposition parties said Tuesday that their representatives had met with a visiting US delegation and that they were ready to restart negotiations with President Nicolas Maduro’s government. On Monday, Maduro announced the US delegation had arrived […]