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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 […]

Mogadishu, March 23 (AFP/APP): Gunfire erupted near Mogadishu’s airport Wednesday as security forces clashed with armed men attempting to storm a heavily fortified area of the Somali capital, witnesses said, with Al-Shabaab insurgents claiming responsibility. Witnesses reported hearing heavy gunfire while public broadcaster Somali National […]

Wuzhou, China, March 23 (AFP/APP):A black box from the crashed China Eastern airlines was recovered on Wednesday as investigators try to determine what made the jet carrying 132 passengers nosedive into a mountainside in southern China. The cause of the disaster has mystified aviation authorities […]

BEIJING – March 22 (ONLINE) A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in mountains in southern China after a sudden plunge from cruising altitude at about the time when it would normally start to descend ahead of its landing. Media […]

CAIRO – March 22 (ONLINE) Egypt has set a fixed price for unsubsidised bread in an effort to counter rising food prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine closed off access to lower-priced Black Sea wheat. Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly on Monday set the price of […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 22 (APP):A senior Pakistani diplomat Tuesday called for “full compliance” of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan, a country which figures among top ten water scarce countries in the world. “Pakistan’s water-scarcity is owed to Pakistan’s status as a […]