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Italian parties to elect outgoing president, leaving Draghi as PM

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

Rome, Jan 29 (AFP/APP): Italy’s parties were set Saturday to vote for outgoing President Sergio Mattarella to stay on for another term, averting the political chaos a failure to elect his successor could have sparked in the eurozone’s third-largest economy. Electing the 80-year-old would end […]

Kazakh leader rejects international probe into deadly unrest

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

NurSultan, Kazakhstan, Jan 29 (AFP/APP): Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Saturday rejected calls for an international probe into a bloody crisis in the ex-Soviet country and said he had no plans to change the constitution to extend his rule. Over 200 people were killed and thousands […]

Pentagon chief orders reforms to reduce civilian deaths

Posted on January 29, 2022 by News Desk

Washington – January 28 (ONLINE): US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered Pentagon officials Thursday to undertake reforms to reduce the number of civilian deaths from military strikes after multiple unjustified fatal incidents. “The protection of civilians is fundamentally consistent with the effective, efficient and decisive […]

US Coast Guard searches waters off Puerto Rico after boat capsizes

Posted on January 29, 2022 by News Desk

Miami, Jan 28 (AFP/APP):US Coast Guard authorities searched waters off Puerto Rico Friday after a boat carrying more than 20 people capsized in the second migrant smuggling accident in a week. The Coast Guard said it received a call around 1:00 am (0500 GMT) reporting […]

14 protesters killed in east Chad amid ethnic tensions

Posted on January 29, 2022 by News Desk

N’Djamena, Jan 28 (AFP/APP):Fourteen protesters have been killed amid ethnic tensions in eastern Chad, a government official said Friday, while rights groups said some had died in clashes with the security forces. Residents of Abeche, the capital of Ouaddai province, protested on Monday against plans […]

In setback for NIA, Kerala High Court acquits two Muslim men in UAPA case

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Tuba Zafar

New Delhi, January 28 (online): In a major setback to Indian’s notorious, National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Kerala High Court acquitted two accused – Thadiyantevida Nazeer and Shafaz – in a case related to a twin bomb blast at the Kozhikode Mofussil bus stand and […]

UN chief tells Security Council: Afghanistan ‘hanging by thread’

Posted on January 28, 2022 by News Desk

Washington-January 27 (ONLINE): Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council, calling for countries to authorize all transactions needed to carry out humanitarian activities in Afghanistan. He also pushed for a suspension of any rules or conditions constricting […]

Sexual harassment made a crime in US military

Posted on January 28, 2022 by News Desk

Washington-January 27 (Online): US President Joe Biden signed an executive order making sexual harassment a crime under the military justice code, in an attempt to relieve a long-term issue with which the Pentagon has struggled. The move, called for in the 2022 National Defense Authorization […]

Ocean Viking migrant ship released by Italian port

Posted on January 28, 2022 by News Desk

Rome, Jan 27 (AFP/APP): Migrant search and rescue group SOS Mediterranee said on Thursday it planned to return to Mediterranean waters after Italian authorities released its Ocean Viking ship following inspections. The ship was detained on January 11 at the Sicilian port of Trapani after […]

Xiomara Castro sworn in as Honduras’s first woman president

Posted on January 28, 2022 by News Desk

Tegucigalpa, Jan 27 (AFP/APP): Leftist Xiomara Castro was sworn in Thursday as the first woman president of Honduras at a ceremony attended by international dignitaries, after seemingly resolving a rebellion in her own party. “I promise to be faithful to the Republic, to comply with […]

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Italian parties to elect outgoing president, leaving Draghi as PM

Kazakh leader rejects international probe into deadly unrest

Pentagon chief orders reforms to reduce civilian deaths

US Coast Guard searches waters off Puerto Rico after boat capsizes

14 protesters killed in east Chad amid ethnic tensions

In setback for NIA, Kerala High Court acquits two Muslim men in UAPA case

UN chief tells Security Council: Afghanistan ‘hanging by thread’

Sexual harassment made a crime in US military

Ocean Viking migrant ship released by Italian port

Xiomara Castro sworn in as Honduras’s first woman president

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