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Rabat, March 29 (AFP/APP):US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday visited Morocco, where he discussed regional security and met the United Arab Emirates’ de facto leader Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. His trip comes in the shadow of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which along with […]

Washington, March 28 (AFP/APP):US President Joe Biden refused Monday to back down on his weekend declaration in a major speech that Russian leader Vladimir Putin “cannot stay in power” — arguing that he was voicing personal “outrage.” “I’m not walking anything back… I want to […]

Washington, March 28 (AFP/APP):A federal judge ruled Monday that former US president Donald Trump “more likely than not” engaged in criminal conduct with his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Judge David Carter leveled the explosive accusation in a ruling dealing […]

Yerevan, March 28 (AFP/APP): Armenia on Monday called on Russian peacekeepers in Nagorno-Karabakh to take “concrete steps” after Azerbaijani forces seized control of a strategic village in the breakaway region. In a new flare-up of tensions in the region amid Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine, […]

Ottawa, March 28 (AFP/APP): Canada announced plans Monday to buy 88 US-made F-35 stealth fighter jets to replace its aging fleet, and meet new threats including from Russia. The F-35 “has proven to be a mature, capable and interoperable aircraft and that is why we […]

SYDNEY – March 24 (ONLINE) Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne doesn’t exclude the possibility of expelling Russian diplomats from Canberra in response to the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, but stressed that it is important to maintain a line of communication with Moscow. “We […]

Washington, March 24 (AFP/APP): North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile test Thursday exposed how thinly stretched US foreign policy risks becoming — with the Ukraine war putting President Joe Biden’s hoped-for pivot to Asia on the back burner. The first test of Kim Jong Un’s most […]

Kyiv, March 24 (AFP/APP): Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners, Kyiv and Moscow confirmed Thursday, in what Ukraine said was the first swap of soldiers since Moscow ordered troops into Ukraine one month ago. “Following an order from President Volodymyr Zelensky, the first fully-fledged exchange […]

Paris, March 24 (AFP/APP): French anti-terror prosecutors have opened a preliminary inquiry into torture and acts of barbarism allegedly committed by Emirati General Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi who in November became head of Interpol, judicial sources said on Thursday. The probe follows a legal complaint by […]

Wuzhou, China, March 24 (AFP/APP): Recovery teams deployed drones and thermal imaging equipment Thursday across a mountainous area where a China Eastern plane inexplicably crashed with 132 people on board. Four days after flight MU5735 ploughed into rugged terrain near Wuzhou in southern China, officials […]