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ISLAMABAD March 20 (Online): Pakistan on Sunday has condemned Houthis ballistic missile attack on civilian’s infrastructure of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Pakistan foreign office spokesperson has called Houthis missile attack condemnation and violation of international laws. In a press release he has reaffirmed Pakistan’s support […]

Tunis, March 20 (AFP/APP): Thousands of Tunisians rallied in the capital Sunday, the country’s Independence Day, to protest against President Kais Saied and consultations over constitutional reforms proposed by him. Protesters shouted “the people want to overthrow the president” and “no to consultations”, according to […]

Brussels, March 20 (AFP/APP):A car ploughed into a crowd of early morning carnival-goers in Belgium on Sunday, killing six people and injuring dozens of others, authorities said. The tragedy took place just after 5:00 am (0400 GMT) at the carnival of Strepy-Bracquegnies, a district of […]

Kyiv, March 20 (AFP/APP): Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday that Russia had bombed a school sheltering 400 people in the besieged port of Mariupol, as Moscow claimed that it had again fired hypersonic missiles in Ukraine, the second time it had used the next-generation weapon […]

Lviv, Ukraine, March 17 (AFP/APP): The station in the west Ukraine city of Lviv teems with outgoing passengers, vying for seats on trains leaving the war-torn nation. But on a desolate platform, far from the main hall, carriages disgorge small huddles of refugees returning home […]

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 […]