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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 […]

Idlib, Syria, Feb 21 (AFP/APP): Syrians have been moved by the fate of a brave nine-year-old girl called Sham that has captured the tragedy, hope and heartbreak of the earthquake which devastated her war-ravaged country. Trapped under the rubble for 40 hours, she was rescued […]

Tokyo, Feb 18 (AFP/APP): A suspected ballistic missile fired from North Korea on Saturday is believed to have landed within Japan’s exclusive economic zone, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said. “It appears the ballistic missile fired by North Korea landed within Japan’s EEZ, west of […]

Conakry, Feb 16 (AFP/APP):Anti-junta protesters clashed with security forces in Guinea on Thursday, AFP journalists saw, with the country’s main opposition coalition reporting “many arrests” and people suffering wounds from live ammunition. Young demonstrators hurled stones and erected barricades on a major road in the […]

Panama City, Feb 15 (AFP/APP): At least 39 people, most of them undocumented US-bound migrants who had just survived a perilous jungle crossing, died in a bus crash in Panama early Wednesday, officials said. Updating the toll from 33, Panama’s National Migration Service said the […]

New York, Feb 15 (AFP/APP):A white supremacist who murdered 10 Black people during a live-streamed supermarket rampage in New York state last year was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday during an emotional hearing that saw a man lunge for the shooter. Payton Gendron, 19, […]

ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (APP): The Federal Investigation Agency on Monday registered a first information report (FIR) against former finance minister Shaukat Tarin on charges of sedition for allegedly stalling talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case has been registered by FIA’s Cyber Crime […]

Kahramanmaras, Turkey, Feb 12 (AFP/APP): Rescuers on Sunday pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble nearly a week after a powerful earthquake devastated huge areas of Türkiye and Syria, killing more than 28,000 people. UN relief chief Martin Griffiths warned that […]