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Lima, Dec 12 (AFP/APP): Hundreds of protesters on Monday used burning tires, wood and rocks to block the airport runway in Peru’s second-largest city, Arequipa, demonstrating against the ousting of former president Pedro Castillo. Protesters have demanded fresh elections and the resignation of new President […]

London, Dec 10 (AFP/APP):One person was killed and several others were missing after a “devastating” explosion Saturday at a block of flats in Jersey’s capital St Helier, police on the Channel island said. A fire was put out but emergency services are still conducting “significant […]

RIYADH, Dec 9 (SPA/APP):King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa of the Kingdom of Bahrain expressed deepest thanks and gratitude to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for inviting him to attend the GCC Summit, the Riyadh Gulf-China Summit […]

Ramallah, Dec 8 (Online): The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces have shot dead three Palestinians during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in northern West Bank, as tensions continue to escalate across the occupied territories. Citing witnesses, Palestine’s official news agency reported that […]

Frankfurt, Germany, Dec 8 (AFP/APP): A German prince, known for his desire to revive the country’s monarchy and rejected by his own family as a “mad old man”, has emerged as a central figure in an alleged coup plot. Prince Heinrich XIII Reuss, descendant of […]

Moscow, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Viktor Bout, a notorious arms dealer who was released as a result of a US swap, arrived in Russia on Thursday, state television said. “Don’t worry, everything is OK, I love you very much,” he told his mother Raisa in comments broadcast […]

Moscow, Dec 7 (AFP/APP): President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday of a drawn-out military intervention in Ukraine more than nine months into a conflict the Kremlin had hoped would end after a days-long assault on Kyiv. His comments came after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said fresh […]

Paris, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):French prosecutors said Wednesday it was “impossible” to convict Air France and plane maker Airbus over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight, enraging victims’ families after an eight-week trial. In an unusual conclusion to proceedings, prosecutors said they could not recommend […]

Paris, Dec 7 (AFP/APP): Tesla owner Elon Musk briefly lost the top spot on Forbes’ billionaire list Wednesday to Bernard Arnault, whose family owns the world’s leading luxury group, LVMH. With US tech stocks sliding as interest rates and recession fears rise, Musk’s fortune briefly […]

Bogotá, Dec 6 (AFP/APP): At least six Colombian soldiers died Tuesday in clashes with holdout fighters from the former rebel group FARC, the army said. It was the worst attack by the renegade FARC fighters since they said in September they were willing to negotiate […]