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Helsinki, April 20 (AFP/APP): Finland’s parliament Wednesday will open a debate on whether to seek NATO membership, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked a surge in political and public support for joining the military alliance. Despite Russia warning of a nuclear build-up in the Baltic […]

MOSCOW – April 19 (ONLINE) Ilya Kiva, a former legislator from Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada belonging to the Opposition Platform – For Life party has said that he intends to request protection and political asylum in Russia. “I officially state that nowadays in Ukraine, the government […]

UNITED NATIONS, Apr 19 (APP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Tuesday’s deadly attacks on schools in Kabul, saying assault against civilians and civilian infrastructure is a crime under international law. At least six people were killed and many more injured in the blasts which […]

ISLAMABAD, April 18 (Online): Pakistan has strongly condemned the campaign of violence and targeted attacks against Muslims by fanatic Hindu mobs in various Indian states. In a statement on Monday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said recent despicable attempt to hoist the saffron flag […]

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court in Lahore sentenced 6 murderers to death involved in Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara in December Seven sentenced to life imprisonment, while 76 people from the mob were sentenced to 2 years in jail. A first information report (FIR) was registered […]

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  LHASA, Apr 18 (XINHUA/APP):More than 1.1 million folios of 3,281 ancient books and documents have been archived over the past three years at the Potala Palace in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region.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