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Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Sept 14 (AFP/APP):Local authorities in authoritarian Tajikistan said Wednesday that two of its border guards were killed after clashes broke out with its Central Asian neighbour Kyrgyzstan. Fighting regularly flares up between the mountainous ex-Soviet republics that share a 970 kilometre-long (600 miles) […]

ISLAMABAD 14 Sep (Online): Pakistan wrote letter to India on Wednesday for water treaty negotiations in next month. According to media reports Indian delegation will visit Pakistan to negotiate water treaties. Talk will undergo in accordance with Sindh-Tas agreement. Pakistani delegation has visited India in […]

Nairobi, Sept 14 (AFP/APP): Ten people were killed in a second day of air strikes on Ethiopia’s Tigray region Wednesday, hospital officials said, in attacks that came after authorities there expressed readiness for a ceasefire. Twin drone attacks hit a neighbourhood in Tigray’s capital Mekele […]

Berlin, Sept 13 (AFP/APP): German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to pull out his troops from Ukraine, as a counter-offensive by Kyiv’s forces made swift progress. Scholz in a 90-minute telephone call “urged” Putin to “come to a diplomatic […]

Washington, Sept 13 (AFP/APP): Russia has covertly sent at least $300 million to foreign political parties and candidates in more than two dozen countries since 2014 to gain influence, a declassified US intelligence assessment said Tuesday. US intelligence “assesses that these are minimum figures and […]

KYIV, Ukraine – September 13 (ONLINE) Ukrainian forces have seized even more territory from Russia as they continue their counter-offensive, the country’s president has said. Volodymyr Zelensky said troops have now retaken more than 6,000 sq km (2,317 sq miles) from Russian control in September, […]

Yerevan, Sept 13 (AFP/APP): Armenia said Tuesday that nearly 50 of its soldiers had been killed in the worst clashes with Azerbaijan since their war two years ago, but Russia said it had convinced the historic rivals to agree to a rapid ceasefire. After several […]

TUNIS – September 12 (ONLINE) At least 11 people are thought to have died in a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia, with 12 others still missing. Tunisia’s coastguard rescued 14 people after the boat, which was carrying 37 migrants to Italy, sank on Tuesday. […]

KYIV, Ukraine – September 11 (ONLINE) The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been shut down, according to Ukraine’s nuclear energy agency The last operating reactor at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) has been shut down after a transmission line linking the plant to Ukraine’s […]

Port Moresby, Sept 11 (AFP/APP): A 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook Papua New Guinea Sunday, damaging buildings, triggering landslides and killing at least two people, with several more severely injured. Residents in northern towns near the epicentre reported intense shaking mid-morning that cracked roads and sheared cladding […]