Gunmen snatch migrants from Mexican hotel

Mexico City, Sept 15 (AFP/APP):Gunmen on Tuesday abducted around 20 migrants, mostly Haitians and Venezuelans, from a hotel in central Mexico, authorities said. “A search was immediately launched to find out what happened and to locate the whereabouts of these people,” the prosecutor’s office in […]

Guinea junta hosts talks on post-coup transition

Conakry, Sept 14 (AFP/APP):Guinea’s military strongman opened a four-day series of talks on Tuesday, intended to pave a return to civilian rule after a coup that one attendee said he blamed on “the failure of the entire political and military class”. Coup leader Lieutenant Colonel […]

Vital to engage with Taliban: UN chief

Geneva, Sept 13 (AFP/APP):UN chief Antonio Guterres called Monday for international engagement with the Taliban to avert an economic collapse in Afghanistan, insisting aid could be used as leverage to improve human rights. Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a donor conference for the […]

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