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BEIJING 10 Mar (Online): Xi Jinping on Friday secured a precedent-breaking third five-year term as China’s president as he tightens his grip as the country’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. Nearly 3,000 members of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), voted unanimously […]

HAMBURG 10 Mar (Online): A gunman believed to have been acting alone killed several people on Thursday in a Jehovah’s Witness church in the German city of Hamburg, police said, as they focused their investigation on the motive for the attack. Police declined to say […]

Tbilisi, March 10 (AFP/APP): Georgia’s young protesters, having forced parliament into a U-turn on controversial new legislation, are determined to maintain the pressure on the government, which they believe is steering the country away from Europe. Thousands of young and mainly peaceful protesters flooded the […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 09 (APP): Afghanistan under the Taliban remains the “most repressive country in the world [for] women’s rights”, the senior UN official in Kabul has told the Security Council, while nevertheless voicing a nuanced position on the importance of continuing to engage with […]

MazariSharif, Afghanistan, March 9 (AFP/APP): The Governor of Afghanistan’s Balkh province, known for fighting against IS militants, was killed in a suicide attack at his office on Thursday, officials said. The killing, a day after he met top government officials visiting from Kabul, makes Mohammad […]

Sydney, March 8 (AFP/APP): The leaders of the United States, Britain and Australia will meet in the United States next week to discuss security and foreign policy, the British Prime Minister’s office announced on Wednesday, ahead of an expected nuclear submarine deal aimed at countering […]

HATAY, Türkiye, Mar 8 (AA/APP): The locals of Hatay, the southernmost province of Türkiye and home to several civilizations and religions, are working to revive the rich culture of the city despite the challenges and damage suffered in the Feb. 6 earthquakes. The 7.7 and […]

Mexico City, March 7 (AFP/APP): Two of the four US citizens kidnapped after crossing the border into crime-plagued northeastern Mexico have been found dead, Mexican authorities said Tuesday. The attorney general’s office confirmed that of the four abductees “two of them are dead, one person […]

Kabul, March 6 (AFP/APP): Afghan universities reopened on Monday after a winter break, but only men returned to class with a “heartbreaking” ban by the Taliban authorities on women in higher education still in force. The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on […]

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 06 (APP):A month after the two catastrophic earthquakes that struck Turkiye and Syria, more than 850,000 children remain displaced after being forced from their damaged or destroyed homes amid millions in dire need of aid, UN agencies said. Families forced from their […]