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VIENTIANE, May 7 (Xinhua/APP): The Lao government on Saturday announced a full reopening of all international checkpoints, allowing vaccinated arrivals to enter the country without any testing requirements. The government spokesperson and deputy head of the Prime Minister’s Office, Thipphakone Chanthavongsa, told a press conference […]

London, May 6 (AFP/APP):Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party lost control of key councils in London, according to partial results from local and regional UK elections on Friday, with a potentially historic change looming in Northern Ireland. The main UK opposition Labour party of Keir […]

Havana, May 6 (AFP/APP): Rescuers searched for victims Friday after a powerful explosion ripped through a hotel under refurbishment in central Havana, with no casualties immediately reported. Shortly after 11:00 am, a cloud of dust and smoke billowed from the Saratoga Hotel after the blast […]

London, May 6 (AFP/APP): Queen Elizabeth’s son Prince Andrew, her grandson Harry and his wife Meghan will not join her on the Buckingham Palace balcony for this year’s Trooping the Colour, royal officials said on Friday. Instead, the 96-year-old monarch has decided to limit numbers […]

UNITED NATIONS, May 06 (APP): After hitting a record high in March, food prices around the world eased slightly in April, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a Rome-based UN agency, said Friday. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 158.2 points in April, down […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, May 6 (AFP/APP): Fifty Ukrainians were evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in the battered city of Mariupol Friday, officials in Kyiv said. “Today we were able to evacuate from Azovstal 50 women, children and elderly people,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said […]

The Hague, May 6 (AFP/APP): Two people were shot dead and two wounded on Friday at a “care farm” in the Netherlands for people with mental or social issues, police and local media said. Dutch police said they arrested a man and recovered a firearm […]

Helsinki, May 2 (AFP/APP): Finnish-led consortium Fennovoima said on Monday it has terminated a contract with Russian group Rosatom to build Finland’s third nuclear power plant, citing risks linked to the Ukraine war. “The war in Ukraine has worsened the risks for the project,” Fennovoima […]

Washington, May 2 (AFP/APP):Donald Trump vented fury at protesters outside the White House in 2020, saying “Can’t you just shoot them?” according to then defense secretary Mark Esper in book excerpts released Monday. Esper wrote that he sat in the Oval Office with “the president […]

Yerevan, May 2 (AFP/APP): Opposition parties in Armenia on Monday staged protests to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resign over his policy on the long-contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Arch-foe Caucasus neighbours Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a dispute since the 1990s over the […]