London – September 7 (Online): Prime Minister Boris Johnson will address lawmakers on Tuesday on his plans to fix Britain’s social care system, with many in his own party furious that he wants to pay for it by hiking taxes in a clear breach of […]
New Delhi – September 7 (Online): Six minor girls in central India were stripped and paraded naked as part of a village ritual to summon rains. The incident took place in a drought-parched village in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh state. Videos that went […]
Berlin, Sept 7 (AFP/APP):German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday lauded her party’s candidate Armin Laschet as the best choice to succeed her, as polls showed the gaffe-prone Rhinelander still trailing badly ahead of this month’s election. Laschet, the chancellor candidate for Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc, […]
Kabul, Sept 7 (AFP/APP):The Taliban on Monday claimed total control over Afghanistan, saying they had won the key battle for the Panjshir Valley, the last remaining holdout of resistance against their rule. Following their lightning-fast victory in mid-August over the former Afghan government’s security forces […]
Algiers, Sept 7 (AFP/APP):Algerian police said Monday that they had arrested 27 people suspected of belonging to a separatist group that Algiers considers a “terrorist” organisation. The individuals were arrested over the previous 48 hours in a case involving “undermining national unity, harming public order […]
Washington, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):The United States on Monday denounced prison sentences handed down against two opposition figures in Belarus who challenged President Alexander Lukashenko. “The United States condemns the politically motivated conviction and shameful sentencing today of Belarusian opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Maxim Znak,” […]
Saint Petersburg, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):A Saint Petersburg court on Monday sentenced a Russian man to three years in a penal colony for hitting a police officer at a rally in support of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. According to the prosecutors, Ilya Pershin, a local […]
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):Qatar’s envoy to Gaza said Monday that aid from his country will be distributed soon in the Palestinian enclave, including to employees of the Hamas government. Qatari support is considered a crucial lifeline for impoverished Palestinians living in Gaza, […]
Kabul, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):Taliban fighters broke out into prayers as their banner fluttered from a flagpole in Panjshir on Monday, after the hardline Islamist group announced the capture of the last pocket of resistance to their rule. In videos circulating on pro-Taliban social media, fighters […]
Kabul, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):The Taliban said Monday they had captured the last pocket of resistance in Afghanistan, the Panjshir Valley, even as opposition fighters vowed to keep up their struggle against the Taliban. Following their lightning-fast rout of Afghanistan’s army last month and celebrations when […]
