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UNITED NATIONS, Mar 28 (APP): The International Labour Organization (ILO), a Geneva-based UN agency, Tuesday called for urgent support to prevent a slide into poverty and an increase in child labour and hand-to-mouth jobs, following the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria in February. In […]

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, March 28 (AFP/APP): Several people at an immigration detention center in a Mexican city on the US border died in a fire that broke out at the facility overnight, local media reported on Tuesday. An AFP journalist saw firemen and rescuers placing […]

Rotterdam, Netherlands, March 27 (AFP/APP): Germany has delivered promised Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday, providing Kyiv with much-needed heavy weaponry against Russia. “Yes, we delivered Leopard tanks as we announced,” Scholz told a press conference with Dutch Prime Minister […]

Budapest, March 27 (AFP/APP): The Hungarian parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s right-wing Fidesz party, ratified Finland’s NATO membership Monday after months of diplomatically charged delay. A large majority of lawmakers — 182 votes for versus six against — approved the accession of the […]

Islamabad (PNI) Pakistan strongly condemns the raid by Israeli forces on Al Aqsa Mosque on the third day of the holy month of Ramadan, expelling the worshippers and violating the sanctity of the Mosque – one of the holiest sites of Muslims. Such reprehensible attacks […]

Tirana, March 27 (AFP/APP): A security guard was killed in a gun attack on Albania’s largest broadcaster early Monday, with the country’s premier calling the assault on the media outlet “worrying”. The 60-year-old guard was in a booth outside the Top Channel headquarters in Tirana […]

ISTANBUL , Mar 26 (AA/APP): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s trip to war-hit Ukraine “signaled strong solidarity” of the West with Kyiv, according to experts who spoke to Anadolu. “The timing of the visit is also symbolic,” said Jingdong Yuan, an international affairs scholar at […]

SainteSoline, France, March 25 (AFP/APP): French police again clashed with protesters on Saturday as campaigners sought to stop the construction of reservoirs in the southwest, the latest in a series of violent standoffs as social tensions erupt nationwide. The violent scenes in Sainte-Soline in western […]

New Delhi, March 25 (AFP/APP): Top Indian opposition figure Rahul Gandhi said Saturday his disqualification from parliament was retribution for his demanding a probe into Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relationship with a controversial tycoon. Gandhi was stripped of his parliamentary seat on Friday, a day […]

NEW DELHI 24 Mar (Online): India’s parliament disqualified the leader of the opposition Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday, a day after a magistrate’s court jailed him for two years in a defamation case linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname. Gandhi “stands disqualified from […]