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Nigeria cuts phone network in restive northern state

Abuja, Sept 4 (AFP/APP):Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has for security reasons asked operators to shut down mobile phone lines in Zamfara State, days after other restrictions were announced in the region plagued by violence. Gangs of criminals known locally as bandits snatched 73 children from a […]

Thai protesters hit the streets as PM clings to power

Bangkok, Sept 4 (AFP/APP):Pro-democracy protesters vented their anger in Bangkok’s heavy rain Saturday after Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-cha survived a no-confidence vote in parliament. More than 300 demonstrators marched in central Bangkok’s main shopping mall district carrying red flags and wearing ponchos in the […]

Iran calls on US to stop its addiction to sanctions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

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