Los Angeles, Sept 14 (AFP/APP):A mother who says her young son developed a rare form of cancer because of his exposure to Roundup sued the maker of the weed killer in California on Monday. Ezra Clark was only four years old in when he was […]
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 […]
Washington, Sept 13 (AFP/APP):A California man espousing white supremacist views and armed with a bayonet and a machete was arrested on Monday outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in Washington, police said. Donald Craighead, 44, of Oceanside, California, was arrested for possession of prohibited […]
Kano, Nigeria, Sept 13 (AFP/APP):Nigerian gunmen have freed dozens of schoolchildren kidnapped this month in northwest Zamfara State, the local government said, following an army offensive on criminal gangs. Nigerian troops also came under attack in Zamfara at the weekend after an armed group raided […]
JUBA, Sep 13 (XINHUA/APP):The World Food Program (WFP) warned Monday it will suspend food assistance for more than 100,000 displaced people in parts of South Sudan for three months from October due to funding shortages. Matthew Hollingworth, representative and country director of the WFP in […]
Athens, Sept 12 (AFP/APP):Greece and the US are in talks to extend their defence deals by five years, instead of one-year renewals now in force, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday. “We are discussing a five-year extension to the defence cooperation agreement, so that […]
Washington, Sept 12 (AFP/APP):Centrist Senate Democrat Joe Manchin flexed his political muscle Sunday, warning the White House and US lawmakers returning from summer break that he could doom President Joe Biden’s immense $3.5 trillion spending package unless they hit the brakes and forge a compromise. […]
Kabul, Sept 12 (AFP/APP):Qatar’s foreign minister, who is also the country’s deputy premier, was briefly in Afghanistan Sunday, becoming the most senior diplomat to visit the country since the Taliban’s takeover on August 15. A Taliban official tweeted that Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani met […]
Tehran, Sept 12 (AFP/APP):Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi met Iran’s recently-elected President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday to discuss the neighbours’ economic relations, official sources said. Kadhemi is the first foreign leader to visit the ultra-conservative Raisi, and brought along a “high level political and economic […]
ISLAMABAD, Sep 12 (APP):In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Indian troops launched a cordon and search operation (CASO) in Rajouri district on Sunday. According to Kashmir Media Service, the troops launched the operation in higher reaches of Barote Village of the district. The […]
