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N’Djamena, May 30 (AFP/APP): Around 100 people have died in clashes between gold miners in northern Chad, Defence Minister General Daoud Yaya Brahim said on Monday. Violence broke out on May 23 at Kouri Bougoudi near the Libyan border, sparked by a “mundane dispute between […]

Abuja, May 29 (AFP/APP): Nigeria’s main opposition party on Saturday named former vice president Atiku Abubakar as its candidate for the 2023 election to replace President Muhammadu Buhari. Abubakar, 75, a northern Muslim and stalwart of the People’s Democratic Party or PDP, has made numerous […]

Kathmandu, May 29 (AFP/APP):A passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in Nepal on Sunday, the operating airline and officials said, as poor weather hampered a search operation. Nepal’s air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas […]

GENEVA 27 May (Online): World Health Organization (WHO) member states have strongly condemned Russian army’s alleged attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine through a resolution. The resolution, according to radio Paskitan, was carried by 88 votes to 12 at the World Health Organization’s annual assembly […]

UNITED NATION 27 May (Online): China and Russia have vetoed a US-led move to impose more United Nations sanctions on North Korea over its renewed ballistic missile launches. The remaining 13 council members, according to radio Pakistan, all voted in favor of the US-drafted resolution […]

Moscow, May 27 (AFP/APP):Russian President Vladimir Putin told Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer Friday that attempts to blame Russia for difficulties in shipping grain worldwide were unfounded and pointed to Western sanctions instead, the Kremlin said. “Vladimir Putin stressed that attempts to make Russia responsible for […]

Tunis, May 26 (AFP/APP): Tunisia will hold a constitutional referendum for a “new republic” on July 25, President Kais Saied has announced, in defiance of critics who warn he wants to establish an autocracy. The vote will come exactly a year after Saied sacked the […]

MOSCOW – May 24 (ONLINE) Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has drawn attention to the United States’ heavy spending on the creation of new pathogens. In an interview to the weekly Argumenty i Fakty he commented on speculations that the Western pharmaceutical companies were […]

Islamabad, May 24, 2022 (Online): The Islamic Republic of Iran has dispatched an Ilyushin II-76 aircraft of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) to Baluchistan Province in Pakistan aimed at assisting the neighboring state in distinguishing wildfires in forests and pastures. Vast fires in jungles, […]

Davos, Switzerland, May 24 (AFP/APP): Swedish and Finnish delegations will meet Turkish officials Wednesday hoping to clear up differences with Ankara which opposes their applications to join NATO, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said. “When we see the problems coming, of course, we take this […]