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The Hague, March 30 (AFP/APP):Two people were killed after a gunman opened fire in a McDonald’s restaurant in the northern Dutch city of Zwolle, police and local media said on Wednesday. “Two people were killed in a shooting incident,” Dutch police tweeted, with local broadcaster […]

Mykolaiv, Ukraine, March 29 (AFP/APP): Several days of calm in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv came to an abrupt end around breakfast-time Tuesday, when a Russian missile tore through a government building, killing seven people. AFP journalists saw dust-covered rescue workers pull two bodies […]

Washington, March 29 (AFP/APP): President Joe Biden said Tuesday that the United States is forging “strongly” ahead on its growing Asia-Pacific priorities, despite the crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Hosting Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the Oval Office, Biden said the […]

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 […]