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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 17 (AFP/APP): President Joe Biden on Saturday assured Arab leaders the United States would remain fully engaged in the Middle East, as he wrapped up his first tour of the region since taking office. “We will not walk away and leave […]

Kavala, Greece, July 17 (AFP/APP): All eight crew members of a cargo plane that crashed near the Greek city of Kavala died in the accident, Serbia’s defence minister said on Sunday. The Ukrainian-operated Antonov An-12 was carrying mines and around 11 tonnes of weapons to […]

NEW DELHI 16 July (Online): An Indian court on Friday granted interim bail to Muslim journalist Muhammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking site Alt News, in another case relating to one of his tweets in 2018, however, he will stay in jail over two more cases, […]

isbon, July 16 (AFP/APP): A plane that was battling forest fires in northern Portugal crashed Friday, killing its pilot, the civil defence said. No one else was on board the single-engine air tanker that plunged to its end near Vila Nova de Foz Coa, as […]

San Francisco, July 16 (AFP/APP): A bomb scare at San Francisco airport sparked an evacuation of the international terminal on Friday evening, local police said. By about midnight (0700 GMT), operations had returned to normal, the airport said. Officers received a bomb threat and found […]

Bogota, July 15 (AFP/APP): Colombian forces have killed FARC dissident leader Nestor Vera and nine other rebels in a raid in the country’s southwest, the defense minister said on Friday. The operation “allowed us to neutralize nine individuals on the FARC dissident frontline as well […]

Bamako, July 14 (AFP/APP): Mali said Thursday it was suspending rotations of the UN’s peacekeeping mission for “national security” reasons, in the latest complication in ties between the ruling junta and international partners. Rotations of the MINUSMA mission are being suspended, including those that have […]

Colombo, July 9 (AFP/APP): Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence on Saturday shortly before protesters, angered by an unprecedented economic crisis, overran the compound and stormed his nearby office. Thousands of people had surrounded the leader’s home to demand his resignation, blaming […]

Druzhkivka, Ukraine, July 9 (AFP/APP): Russian troops pursued their “relentless” shelling of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Saturday as Ukrainian officials warned Moscow was preparing for further attacks and Washington promised new military aid to Kyiv. Having endured long battles to capture cities in the […]

Tokyo, July 8 (AFP/APP): World leaders condemned Friday’s assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and paid tribute to the 67-year-old, who was his country’s longest-serving leader. Here are some key comments: – United States – US President Joe Biden, who said he was […]