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UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 (APP): The UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, has said that genocide denial and the glorification of war criminals continue to present a “serious challenge” to reconciliation efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Raising concerns over such […]

ISLAMABAD 25 Feb (Online): A popular Indian ‘news’ agency – Asian News International (ANI) – continues to push fake narratives using non-existent sources and “fake experts” to target rivals, particularly China and Pakistan, revealed a report by EU DisinfiLab. The revelation by EU DisinfoLab was […]

ISLAMABAD, FEB 25 (Online): The Central Apex Committee has agreed that the elimination of terrorism, economic revival and political stability are interlinked. The Committee which met in Islamabad with Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in chair concurred that since Pakistan cannot afford internal instability, national […]

Berlin, Feb 24 (AFP/APP): Germany said Friday it would supply four extra Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv, assembling with Portugal and Sweden a full battalion to help Ukraine repel the Russian invasion. The German army would send a total of 18 Leopard 2 A6 tanks […]

OVIEDO, SPAIN, Feb 24 (AA/APP): Spanish police said on Thursday that they busted two criminal rings dedicated to falsifying documents for British citizens who wanted to stay in Spain longer than the law would allow post-Brexit. The police arrested 47 people in Marbella – 42 […]

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (XINHUA/APP):The US starkly warned China on Thursday against providing arms to Russia amid reports that the Biden administration is internally deliberating whether to publicly release intelligence suggesting Beijing is mulling the option. State Department spokesman Ned Price said that should China decide […]

WASHINGTON 23 Feb (Online): US President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled on Thursday a long-awaited overhaul of arms export policy with increased emphasis on human rights, backing off a Trump-era policy of giving more weight to commercial concerns. As Reuters reported on Wednesday, the new Commercial […]

Washington, Feb 23 (AFP/APP): US President Joe Biden said Thursday that Washington is nominating former Mastercard Chief Executive Ajay Banga as a candidate to lead the World Bank, after its current head announced plans to step down early. The development lender has just started accepting […]

Paris, Feb 22 (AFP/APP):Participants at a global UN conference in France’s capital on Wednesday urged the international community to find better safeguards against online disinformation and hate speech. Hundreds of officials, tech firm representatives, academics and members of civil society were invited to the two-day […]

Tehran, Feb 21 (AFP/APP):A Tehran court on Tuesday sentenced to death an Iranian-German dual national accused of being the leader of a “terrorist” group behind a deadly 2008 mosque bombing, the judiciary said. “The Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Jamshid Sharmahd, the leader of the Tondar […]