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Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18 (AFP/APP):Russian strikes on Monday killed at least eight civilians in the embattled eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, local authorities said. Four died as they tried to escape the city of Kreminna which Russian forces captured earlier on Monday, Lugansk […]

  LHASA, Apr 18 (XINHUA/APP):More than 1.1 million folios of 3,281 ancient books and documents have been archived over the past three years at the Potala Palace in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.   The progress was announced at a relics protection conference in the […]

ISLAMABAD, Apr 18 (APP):Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned the campaign of violence and targeted attacks against Muslims by fanatic Hindu mobs in various Indian states. The Foreign Office said the recent despicable attempt to hoist the saffron flag at Jahangirpuri’s Jamia Masjid in New Delhi […]

YANGON, Apr 18 (XINHUA/APP):Myanmar reopened the Yangon International Airport on Sunday, more than two years after the country suspended all commercial flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An airport official told Xinhua that a flight of Singapore Airlines that arrived at around 9 a.m. (0230 […]

Moscow, April 18 (AFP/APP):Russian state TV broadcast a video Monday of what it described as “Britons” captured fighting for Ukraine demanding that Prime Minister Boris Johnson negotiate their release. The two haggard-looking men identified as British nationals, Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin, asked to be […]

ISLAMABAD, Apr 16 (APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammad Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Saturday agreed to work together to further augment and diversify their bilateral ties in all spheres, in particular trade, investment and […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 16 (APP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed deep concern over the deteriorating security situation in Jerusalem, and called on Palestinian and Israeli leaders to help defuse the situation. At least 152 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli riot police and […]

JERUSALEM – April 15 (ONLINE) Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli police clashed at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound Friday morning, medics and witnesses said. “Seven injured people were taken to hospital to be treated for upper body injuries,” a member of the Palestinian Red Crescent told AFP. […]

MOSCOW – April 15 (ONLINE) Moscow will take required security and defense measures if Sweden and Finland join NATO, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told TASS on Thursday. “It is clear that our border with Finland is 1,300 km long. This will mean a […]

WASHINGTON 15 April (Online): US state department spokesperson Ned Price said on Friday, that US agreed with the statement given by the Inter Services Public Relation (ISPR) Director General a day ago to dismiss an impression of a foreign “conspiracy” to oust former Prime Minister […]