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Iran calls on US to stop its addiction to sanctions

Posted on September 4, 2021 by News Desk

Tehran, Sept 4 (AFP/APP):Iran urged the United States Saturday to stop its addiction to sanctions against the Islamic republic and accused President Joe Biden of following the same “dead end” policies as Donald Trump. Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh made his remarks a day after […]

Sri Lanka offers help with New Zealand knife attack probe

Posted on September 4, 2021 by News Desk

Colombo, Sept 4 (AFP/APP):Sri Lanka will cooperate with New Zealand’s investigation into a knife rampage by an Islamic State-inspired assailant from the South Asian nation, authorities said Saturday. Police shot dead the 32-year-old Sri Lankan after he attacked seven people in an Auckland supermarket on […]

15 dead in tractor-truck collision in NE China

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Tuba Zafar

HARBIN, Sept. 4 (Xinhua/APP):Fifteen people have been confirmed dead and another injured after a tractor collided with a truck in the city of Qitaihe, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Saturday morning, according to the local authority. The Ministry of Public Security has sent a team to […]

South Sudan facing ‘new wave of repression’, Amnesty warns

Posted on September 4, 2021 by News Desk

Nairobi, Sept 3 (AFP/APP):South Sudan is witnessing a “new wave of repression”, global rights group Amnesty International warned Friday, with many activists now in hiding after a string of arrests in the conflict-wracked country. The world’s newest nation has suffered from chronic instability since independence […]

Citing its information, Pakistan says Taliban not carrying out reprisals in Afghanistan

Posted on September 4, 2021 by News Desk

WASHINGTON, Sep 03 (APP):Pakistan has reportedly questioned reports that the Taliban are carrying out revenge attacks in Afghanistan — including claims that the group has been executing its perceived enemies in door-to-door raids, saying they were not doing so, Politico, an American online news service, […]

Top Iraqi Shiite cleric dies in Najaf

Posted on September 4, 2021 by News Desk

Najaf, Iraq, Sept 3 (AFP/APP):Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Said al-Hakim, one of Iraq’s top Shiite clerics, died on Friday aged 85 in the holy city of Najaf after a heart attack, sources close to him said. Funeral ceremonies will be held on Saturday in Najaf and […]

Japan PM Suga won’t seek re-election after year in office

Posted on September 3, 2021 by News Desk

Tokyo, Sept 3 (AFP/APP):Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said Friday he will not run for his ruling party’s leadership, effectively ending his tenure and throwing wide open the race for the next premier. The shock decision after just a year in office comes with Suga’s […]

Improving air quality ‘key’ to confronting global environmental crises: UN report

Posted on September 3, 2021 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 03 (APP):With environmental events becoming increasingly interconnected, a new global report on air pollution published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has underscored that improved air quality is “key to tackling the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and […]

All is set for formation of new Taliban government in Afghanistan

Posted on September 3, 2021 by News Desk

ISLAMABAD, Sep 02 (APP): Taliban Rahbari Shura headed by Amir ul Monineen Mullah Haibat Ullah Akhunzada on Thursday after three-days consultative meeting in Kandahar, approved to form a new government in Afghanistan, expected to be announced after Friday prayers. The sources informed APP that the […]

Abbas, Abdullah, Sisi meet in Cairo

Posted on September 3, 2021 by News Desk

Cairo, Sept 2 (AFP/APP):Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas met in Cairo on Thursday with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II for talks on Jerusalem. Abbas condemned “the aggressions of (Jewish) settlers… under the protection of the Israeli army”, in reference to the […]

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Iran calls on US to stop its addiction to sanctions

Sri Lanka offers help with New Zealand knife attack probe

15 dead in tractor-truck collision in NE China

South Sudan facing ‘new wave of repression’, Amnesty warns

Citing its information, Pakistan says Taliban not carrying out reprisals in Afghanistan

Top Iraqi Shiite cleric dies in Najaf

Japan PM Suga won’t seek re-election after year in office

Improving air quality ‘key’ to confronting global environmental crises: UN report

All is set for formation of new Taliban government in Afghanistan

Abbas, Abdullah, Sisi meet in Cairo

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