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Plane with 14 people on board crashes in the Comoros

Moroni, Comoros, Feb 26 (AFP/APP): Rescuers in the Comoros on Saturday scrambled to find survivors and the wreckage of a plane carrying 14 people that crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago on Saturday. Airline AB Aviation said its small Cessna plane disappeared from the radar […]

Guterres tells Ukraine that UN determined to ‘enhance’ humanitarian aid

United Nations, United States, Feb 26 (AFP/APP): The United Nations told Ukraine Saturday that it will work to increase humanitarian assistance in the wake of the Russian invasion. With the war already prompting tens of thousands of people in Ukraine to flee their homes, Secretary […]

Pakistan knows where US stands on Ukraine issue, US State Department

Washington: February 26 (ONLINE): US State department said that Pakistan knows where US stands on Ukraine issue as Pakistan has been briefed about our position before and during attack of Russia on Ukraine . Spokesperson US State Department Ned price said while addressing the media […]

Rights groups condemn Texas governor order on transgender youth medical care

Washington, Feb 26 (AFP/APP):”Unethical,” “scary” and “maddening” — human rights groups have reacted with fury to a Texas order that a state agency should investigate cases of transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care as child abuse. Earlier this week, Republican Governor Greg Abbott sent […]

Eight Polio vaccinators killed in Afghanistan

KABUL – February 25 (ONLINE): Eight members of polio vaccination teams working to eradicate the crippling virus in Afghanistan were killed on Thursday in four separate attacks, the United Nations said. Polio teams were frequently targeted by insurgent groups in Afghanistan until the Taliban’s takeover […]

‘Rooted in NATO’: Iran responds to Russia’s Ukraine attack

TEHRAN – February 25 (ONLINE): While Iran says it is opposed to war in Ukraine, it will not outright denounce Russia’s military operation, instead blaming the West for NATO’s presence in the region. Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, said in his first reaction on Thursday […]

Five MSF workers kidnapped in Cameroon

Yaoundé, Feb 25 (AFP/APP): Five workers with the French medical charity MSF have been kidnapped in Cameroon’s Far North, a region troubled by jihadist insurgents, MSF and a senior local official told AFP on Friday. Armed men in Fotokol, near the border with Nigeria, on […]

W.African envoy leaves Mali after inconclusive democracy talks

Bamako, Feb 25 (AFP/APP): An envoy from West Africa’s regional bloc left Mali on Friday, officials said, after inconclusive talks with the military junta over restoring civilian rule in the fragile Sahel state. Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, representing the 15-nation Economic Community of West […]

Greece fire ferry death toll climbs to eight

Athens, Feb 25 (AFP/APP): Greece’s coastguard on Friday raised the death toll from an Italian-flagged ferry that caught fire last week to eight, with three truck drivers still missing. The blaze ripped through the Euroferry Olympia last week near the Greek island of Corfu after […]

Belarus leader says his army not taking part in Ukraine invasion

Moscow, Feb 24 (AFP/APP): Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko said Thursday that his military is not taking part in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, state media reported. “Our armed forces are not taking part in this operation,” Lukashenko, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said. […]

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