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Paris, May 20 (AFP/APP):French President Emmanuel Macron named new foreign and defence ministers on Friday as part of a government re-shuffle intended to create fresh momentum ahead of parliamentary elections next month. France’s ambassador to London, Catherine Colonna, was picked as foreign minister, making her […]

Melbourne, May 20 (AFP/APP):Anthony Albanese, the centre-left frontrunner to become Australia’s next prime minister, predicted a “close” result in Saturday’s election, as he barnstormed the country in a bid to end a decade of conservative rule. Wrapping a four-state pre-election blitz, Albanese closed his campaign […]

Pyeongtaek, South Korea, May 20 (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden arrived in South Korea Friday, his first Asia trip as US leader, aiming to cement ties with regional security allies despite growing fears of a North Korean nuclear test. He received a warm welcome from […]

Athens, May 20 (AFP/APP): Greece’s culture ministry on Friday said the Nobel Foundation in Sweden had returned an ancient gold ring stolen from the island of Rhodes during World War II. The announcement came just days after a UNESCO body said Greece and Britain had […]

Jenin, Palestinian Territories, May 20 (AFP/APP): Weeks of Israeli raids and clashes with Palestinians have filled residents of the flashpoint Jenin refugee camp with fear and anxiety, and a longing to “live in dignity”. A hub of armed Palestinian groups, the Jenin area in the […]

  JAKARTA, May 20 (Xinhu/APP): Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta was inaugurated and sworn in early Friday morning as the president of Timor Leste for the period of 2022 to 2027, making it the second time for him to lead Southeast Asia’s youngest nation. […]

TOKYO, May 20 (Xinhua/APP):The Japan Coast Guard said a two-day search operation inside a tourist boat that sank off Hokkaido was concluded on Friday with no bodies of the 12 missing people found. The deep sea divers, operating at a depth of 120 meters below […]

ABUJA – May 18 (ONLINE) Nigeria is monitoring Meta Platforms Inc’s (FB.O) Facebook and other platforms to ensure they comply with demands to curtail hate speech on their sites, as it steps up its campaign for responsible use of social media, Information Minister Lai Mohammed […]

The Hague, May 18 (AFP/APP): One of the last five fugitives wanted for his role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Pheneas Munyarugarama, died in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002, UN prosecutors said Wednesday. Munyarugarama, a local army commander, “died of natural causes” and […]

Moscow, May 18 (AFP/APP): Belarus has introduced the death penalty for attempts to carry out acts of terrorism, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday, charges that several opposition activists face in the ex-Soviet country. Belarus — a close ally of Russia — is the only country […]