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UNITED NATIONS, May 06 (APP): After hitting a record high in March, food prices around the world eased slightly in April, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a Rome-based UN agency, said Friday. The FAO Food Price Index averaged 158.2 points in April, down […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, May 6 (AFP/APP): Fifty Ukrainians were evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in the battered city of Mariupol Friday, officials in Kyiv said. “Today we were able to evacuate from Azovstal 50 women, children and elderly people,” Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said […]

The Hague, May 6 (AFP/APP): Two people were shot dead and two wounded on Friday at a “care farm” in the Netherlands for people with mental or social issues, police and local media said. Dutch police said they arrested a man and recovered a firearm […]

Helsinki, May 2 (AFP/APP): Finnish-led consortium Fennovoima said on Monday it has terminated a contract with Russian group Rosatom to build Finland’s third nuclear power plant, citing risks linked to the Ukraine war. “The war in Ukraine has worsened the risks for the project,” Fennovoima […]

Washington, May 2 (AFP/APP):Donald Trump vented fury at protesters outside the White House in 2020, saying “Can’t you just shoot them?” according to then defense secretary Mark Esper in book excerpts released Monday. Esper wrote that he sat in the Oval Office with “the president […]

Yerevan, May 2 (AFP/APP): Opposition parties in Armenia on Monday staged protests to demand Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resign over his policy on the long-contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Arch-foe Caucasus neighbours Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a dispute since the 1990s over the […]

Beijing, May 2 (AFP/APP): One person was pulled out alive Monday from the rubble of a building that collapsed three days ago in central China, state-run television said, with hopes of finding more survivors fading fast. The commercial building in Changsha city, Hunan province — […]

Addis Ababa, May 2 (AFP/APP): Ethiopian police using tear gas briefly clashed with young Muslims in Addis Ababa on Monday during prayers to mark the end of Ramadan, AFP reporters saw. The incident occurred outside the international stadium in the heart of the capital, where […]

Jerusalem, April 30 (AFP/APP):Israeli forces carried out a manhunt Saturday in the occupied West Bank after a Jewish settlement guard was shot dead in an attack claimed by a Palestinian armed group, in the latest wave of violence. Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, one of the main […]

London, April 30 (AFP/APP):A lawmaker from Britain’s ruling Conservative party announced Saturday he will resign, after admitting he had deliberately watched pornography on his mobile phone in the House of Commons chamber. Neil Parish, who represents a seat in southwest England, said he was standing […]