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Australian lawmakers call for inquiry into Murdoch media

Sydney, Dec 9 (AFP/APP):Australian lawmakers Thursday backed calls for a full judicial inquiry into media ownership, at the end of their own year-long investigation sparked by a record-breaking petition demanding a probe into Rupert Murdoch’s dominance of the sector. The Senate committee recommended the establishment […]

Libya upper house calls for election delay

Tripoli, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Libya’s upper house on Wednesday proposed delaying December presidential elections by two months, the latest dispute over the vote intended to help end 10 years of violence. A United Nations-led political process targeting December 24 polls has been undermined by bitter divisions […]

Cavendish ‘distressed’ by armed robbery at his home

London, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Mark Cavendish said his family were “extremely distressed” after a group of armed burglars assaulted the record holder for Tour de France stage wins and threatened his wife in a raid while his children were in the house. Four intruders entered Cavendish’s […]

UNGA adopts four Pakistani resolutions aimed at underpinning regional, world peace

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 08 (APP):The United Nations General Assembly has approved Pakistan’s four disarmament-related resolutions that are aimed at strengthening regional and international peace and security. The resolutions were recommended by the 193-member Assembly’s First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) where the texts were adopted […]

Elephant kills two Sri Lanka cricket stadium staff

Colombo, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Two ground staff at an international cricket stadium in Sri Lanka were killed in an elephant attack, officials said Wednesday. The two workers were heading home on Tuesday evening when they were attacked outside the Suriyawewa Mahinda Rajapaksa international stadium in Hambantota. […]

20 sentenced to death for Bangladesh student killing: prosecutor

Dhaka, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Bangladesh sentenced 20 people to death on Wednesday for the brutal 2019 murder of a university student who criticised the government on social media, a prosecutor told AFP. “Twenty people have been sentenced to death and five people were sentenced to life […]

Northern Ireland Protocol stokes EU-UK tensions

Belfast, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):The Northern Ireland Protocol was signed separately from the Brexit trade deal between the UK and the European Union and aims to avoid a “hard” border on the island of Ireland. Physical infrastructure on the border between the province and EU member […]

UN court tells Armenia and Azerbaijan to cool feud

The Hague, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):The UN’s top court ordered rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan Tuesday to prevent racial hatred and avoid aggravating their feud following last year’s war between the Caucasus arch-foes. Azerbaijan was also told to protect Armenian prisoners from the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, and […]

France arrests man suspected of Khashoggi murder link

Paris, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):French police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of being a member of the hit squad that murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, multiple sources close to the case said. Investigators were seeking to confirm […]

Biden will consult European allies before Putin call, brief Zelensky after: official

Washington, Dec 6 (AFP/APP):US President Joe Biden will consult with European allies before a Tuesday call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, and will brief Ukraine’s president afterwards, a senior White House official said. “In advance of that call, the president will be speaking later […]

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