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Catania, Italy, Nov 8 (AFP/APP):Hundreds of migrants aboard rescue ships waited Tuesday at a Sicilian port for permission to come ashore, as another charity vessel gave up hope of a welcome in Italy and appealed to France for safe harbour. Nearly 500 migrants are in […]

ANKARA, Nov 8 (AA/APP):The European Council on Tuesday decided to fully suspend the visa waiver agreement with Vanuatu, citing risks posed by its investor citizenship schemes. Following the partial suspension, which was imposed on March 3, the European Commission began a dialogue with the country […]

Washington, Nov 8 (AFP/APP):Polls opened Tuesday in crucial US midterm elections that could decide the political future of both President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump — who has all but announced he will seek the White House again in 2024. Biden’s Democrats are […]

Catania, Italy, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):Three migrants rescued from the Mediterranean and brought to a Sicilian port but then banned from disembarking jumped into the sea in desperation Monday, trapped in a standoff between charity ships and Italy’s new hard-right government. The men were quickly pulled […]

Washington, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):More than 42 million Americans have cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, surpassing the numbers from 2018, the US Elections Project said Monday. Americans will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect 435 members of the House of Representatives, […]

Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):UN chief Antonio Guterres warned world leaders at a climate summit in Egypt on Monday that humanity faces a stark choice between working together or “collective suicide” in the battle against global warming. Nearly 100 heads of state and […]

MUNICH – November 6 (ONLINE) German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is facing allegations that the numbers of refugees arriving in Germany since the start of the year have been manipulated, local media reports have said. Saturday’s reports said that while Faeser claims only 57,647 refugees […]

ISLAMABAD / LAHORE – November 6 (ONLINE) Former Prime Minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday announced his party will resume marching towards Islamabad this Tuesday from the very point in Punjab’s Wazirabad where he was shot at. Imran’s ‘Haqiqi Azadi March’ was disrupted […]

Rome, Nov 6 (AFP/APP):Italy on Sunday took in families with babies and vulnerable migrants rescued in the Mediterranean as charities slammed Rome’s decision to order the others back into international waters. As humanitarian vessels waited in the port of Catania to disembark those saved, a […]

Cairo, Nov 6 (AFP/APP):Jailed Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah has stopped drinking water, his family said Sunday, escalating his hunger strike as world leaders arrive in the country for the COP27 climate summit. A major figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled longtime president Hosni […]