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Paris, Jan 2 (AFP/APP): Two Iranian teenagers face the death penalty after being sentenced to be hanged over involvement in protests that have rocked the Islamic republic for months, a rights group said Monday. Two men aged 23 have already been executed over the protests […]

Kabul, Jan 1 (AFP/APP): An explosion at the entrance to a military airfield in the Afghan capital killed and wounded several people on Sunday, an official told AFP. The cause of the blast at the gate of the facility next to Kabul’s international airport was […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 30 (APP): The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, Friday called for a coordinated regional approach to protect thousands of Rohingya Muslims risking their lives on perilous sea voyages. “More than 2,400 Rohingya have sought to leave Bangladesh and Myanmar […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec 30 (AFP/APP):Ukraine said Friday it repelled a night-time drone attack from Russia, a day after Moscow launched a new wave of missile strikes in the run-up to New Year celebrations. The attacks came 10 months into President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, […]

Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Dec 30 (AFP/APP):Ousted Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to another seven years in jail as her long series of trials ended on Friday, with the Nobel laureate now facing more than three decades behind bars. A prisoner of the […]

PHNOM PENH 29 Dec (Online): At least 19 people were killed and up to 30 were missing after a huge fire tore through a casino-hotel complex in a Cambodian town on the Thai border, officials said on Thursday. About 400 employees and patrons were in […]

Moscow, Dec 29 (AFP/APP): Russia’s key ally Belarus said Thursday its air defence shot down a missile launched from Ukrainian territory, in the first such incident reported by Minsk since the start of Moscow’s Ukraine offensive. The Belarus defence ministry said a missile was shot […]

Belgrade, Dec 28 (AFP/APP): Kosovo’s biggest border crossing with Serbia was closed on Wednesday as months of tensions again flared, prompting Washington and Brussels to urge an immediate de-escalation of tensions. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, but Belgrade has refused to recognise it […]

Bakhmut/Lyman, Ukraine, Dec 27 (AFP/APP):Lisa Shtanko, 8, stood on the side of a muddy road watching Ukrainian soldiers pass by, one of only a few children left in a town hit hard by Russia’s invasion. There was hardly any heating or electricity. Most of her […]

Laweueng, Indonesia, Dec 27 (AFP/APP): Some died of sickness. Others of dehydration. But after more than a month adrift on the Andaman Sea without much food, medicine or a working engine, nearly 200 Rohingya reached western Indonesia’s Aceh province after their overcrowded, rickety wooden boat […]