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Almaty, Kazakhstan, June 5 (AFP/APP): Voting was underway in Kazakhstan Sunday for a referendum to overhaul the constitution after deadly unrest in January ended the founding leader Nursultan Nazarbayev’s three-decade grip on Central Asia’s richest country. The bloodshed — which grew out of peaceful protests […]

Belgrade, June 3 (AFP/APP): While the European Union scrambles to isolate Russia and reduce energy imports from the country, EU candidate Serbia is tightening its bond with Moscow through a new gas supply deal. Belgrade has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the United […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 03 (APP): A truce between the Government in Yemen and Houthi rebels has been renewed for an additional two months, UN Special Envoy for the Arab country Hans Grundberg announced Thursday. “By agreeing to implementing and now renewing the truce, the parties […]

Sloviansk, Ukraine, June 2 (AFP/APP):The bombing in eastern Ukraine is becoming more intense and, with no water or electricity, 100 people or so heeded the mayor’s call on Thursday to evacuate the city of Sloviansk which sits in Russia’s crosshairs. “The situation is getting worse, […]

Dakar, June 2 (AFP/APP): In Rwandan playwright Dorcy Rugamba’s latest work, a young African steps into an austere European museum and tells an ancient mask he is looking for the soul of Africa. The artefact comes to life as a woman. “you will find neither […]

Dakar, June 2 (AFP/APP): The head of the African Union, Senegalese President Macky Sall, will speak with President Vladimir Putin in the southwestern Russian city of Sochi on Friday, Dakar said. The visit is aimed at “freeing up stocks of cereals and fertilisers, the blockage […]

Uvalde, United States, June 1 (AFP/APP): The Texas town of Uvalde on Wednesday laid to rest one of the two teachers gunned down in last week’s elementary school massacre, along with her husband who died days later — leaving their four children orphaned. Irma Linda […]

WASHINGTON – June 1 (ONLINE) US President Joe Biden has announced the US will send medium-range rocket systems to Ukraine to aid its forces as they struggle to stall Russian progress, in an apparent change of mind. The US president said on Monday that Washington […]

Port Vila, Vanuatu, June 1 (AFP/APP):China has insisted it has “no intention to compete” for influence in the South Pacific as foreign minister Wang Yi and his Australian counterpart Penny Wong again jetted around the region Wednesday on duelling diplomatic charm offensives. In a statement […]

London, June 1 (AFP/APP): West Ham defender Kurt Zouma was on Wednesday ordered to carry out 180 hours of community service after he admitted kicking and slapping his pet cat. A judge at Thames Magistrates Court in east London also banned the 27-year-old France international […]