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Geneva, April 29 (AFP/APP):More than 3,000 people died or went missing in the Mediterranean and Atlantic while trying to reach Europe last year — double the toll from 2020, the United Nations said Friday. A fresh report from the UN refugee agency demanded urgent action […]

Kabul, April 29 (AFP/APP): A blast ripped through a mosque in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing up to 10 people, an interior ministry official said. A wave of deadly bombings has rocked the country in the last two weeks of the fasting month of […]

JAKARTA – April 29 (ONLINE) Twelve women working in an illegal gold mine in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province were killed when a cliff collapsed and triggered a landslide that buried them, police said, AFP news agency reported. Unlicensed mines are common across mineral-rich Indonesia, with […]

Brussels, April 27 (AFP/APP): Poland and Bulgaria are now receiving gas from their EU neighbours after Russia’s state energy giant Gazprom turned off the taps, European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday. “We will ensure that Gazprom’s decision has the least possible impact […]

NAY PYI DAW – April 27 (ONLINE) Aung San Suu Kyi, the ousted civilian leader of Myanmar and Nobel laureate, was on Wednesday found guilty of corruption and sentenced to five years in jail, news agency AFP reported, citing sources. A Myanmar junta court accused […]

ISLAMABAD 27 April (Online): National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved 2.86 per unit increase on electricity price on Wednesday. This increase took place for fuel adjustment of March which will add 28.9 billion in consumers’ burden. In detail decision NEPRA told that less […]

ISLAMABAD, Apr 27 (APP): President Dr Arif Alvi and Begum Samina Alvi Wednesday arranged an Iftar dinner for the orphan children at here the Aiwan-e-Sadr. The iftar dinner was hosted to encourage the orphan children. The president and Begum Alvi very affectionately welcomed the children. […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, April 27 (AFP/APP): Ukraine said Wednesday that Russian forces had pushed deeper into the east of the country and captured several villages as part of Moscow’s offensive to take control of Donbas. Moscow said earlier this month it was withdrawing its invading troops […]

Paris, April 26 (AFP/APP): French President Emmanuel Macron faced the daunting challenge of uniting a deeply divided nation Monday after winning re-election in a battle against Marine Le Pen that saw the far right come its closest yet to taking power. Centrist Macron won 58.54 […]

ISLAMABAD, April 26 (Online): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has allocated portfolios to four federal ministers and one minister of state. Khurram Dastgir Khan has been given the portfolio of Power, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq Economic Affairs, Riaz Hussain Pirzada Human Rights and Murtaza Javed Abbasi has […]