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UNITED NATIONS, Mar 17 (APP): UNHCR Chief Filippo Grandi has called for sustained international support for Afghanistan’s people, where the country’s humanitarian crisis is worsening. Speaking from Kabul on Thursday, at the end of a four-day visit to Afghanistan, Grandi said that he had met […]

MOSCOW – March 16 (ONLINE) Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday the ‘arrogant’ US-led West ignored Moscow’s proposed security guarantees following many years of admonitions and exhortations from the Russian side regarding NATO’s steady eastward expansion. “Once the Warsaw Pact dissolved, and even […]

London, March 16 (AFP/APP):Two British-Iranians flew home on Wednesday after being released from years of detention in Iran, as the UK government confirmed it had paid a longstanding debt over a cancelled defence contract. “Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori will return from Iran today,” British […]

TASHKENT, March 16 (Xinhua/APP): Uzbekistan cancelled some COVID-19 restrictions starting from Wednesday and will resume issuing electronic visas for foreigners to open the country to tourists, said the Uzbek special commission on COVID-19. Foreigners arriving in Uzbekistan are still required to hold a vaccination certificate […]

Paris, March 16 (AFP/APP):Paris could offer Corsica “autonomy” to calm tensions between the Mediterranean island’s fierce independence movement and the French state that have flared this month, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said ahead of a visit Wednesday. “We are ready to go as far as […]

WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (APP): The United States has said there was no indication that the March 9 firing of a missile from India which hit a Pakistani city was anything other than accidental, an incident that Pakistan demanded should be investigated jointly. On Friday, India […]

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, March 15 (AFP/APP): The son of Turkmenistan’s autocrat leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov won a decisive victory in presidential elections, officials said Tuesday, paving the way to hereditary succession in one of the world’s most tightly-controlled countries. Serdar Berdymukhamedov, 40, won the ballot held on […]

Warsaw, March 15 (AFP/APP): The Polish, Czech and Slovenian prime ministers will travel to Kyiv on Tuesday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Polish government said in a statement. The visit comes amid deadly Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, which has nearly […]

Beijing, March 15 (AFP/APP): China’s foreign minister has said his nation does not want to be impacted by Western economic sanctions on Russia, state media reported Tuesday, as pressure grows on Beijing to withdraw support from an isolated Moscow. “China is not a party to […]