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KUALA LAMPUR – November 24 (ONLINE) Malaysia’s King Al Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah on Wednesday appointed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim as country’s next prime minister, media reports said. Anwar was sworn in by the king at 0900 GMT. His wife, Was Azizah Wan Ismail […]

ISLAMABAD, Nov 24 (APP):Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Thursday that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decided to appoint Lt. Gen. Sahir Shamshad Mirza as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee and Lt. Gen. Syed Asim Munir as the […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Nov 23 (AFP/APP):All three nuclear power plants still under Ukrainian control disconnected automatically from the electricity grid on Wednesday after fresh Russian air strikes hit the country, Ukraine’s nuclear operator said. The strikes activated emergency protocols at the Rivnenska, Pivdennoukrainska and Khmelnytska plants […]

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 23 (AFP/APP):A sea of streamers and mini-Brazilian flags flutters over Freedom Alley, one of myriad narrow streets criss-crossing Rio de Janeiro’s biggest favela, Rocinha, which decks itself out in World Cup splendor every four years. But residents vetoed a graffiti portrait […]

Beijing, Nov 22 (AFP/APP):Thirty-eight people were killed and two were injured in a fire at a factory in central China, state media said Tuesday, with authorities blaming workers for illegal welding. The fire broke out at a plant in Anyang City in Henan Province on […]

Cianjur, Indonesia, Nov 22 (AFP/APP):Rescuers searched for survivors buried under rubble on Tuesday after an earthquake on Indonesia’s main island of Java killed 162 people, injured hundreds and left more feared trapped in collapsed buildings. As bodybags emerged from crumpled buildings in Indonesia’s most populous […]

ISTANBUL 20 Nov (Online): A total of 89 targets were destroyed in the ongoing Operation Claw-Sword in northern Iraq and Syria, and “many terrorists” were “neutralised,” the Turkish Ministry of National Defence has announced. “Among the terrorists neutralised by the air operation are the so-called […]

TEHRAN 20 Nov (Online): Iranian security forces have killed at least 378 people (including 47 children) in a crackdown on protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, a rights group said in an updated toll on Saturday. The Islamic republic has been gripped by protests that […]

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (APP):UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres termed as a “step towards Justice” the agreement at the COP27 climate summit to establish a funding mechanism to compensate vulnerable nations for ‘loss and damage’ from climate-induced disasters, after days of intense negotiations that stretched into […]

Seoul, Nov 18 (AFP/APP):North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday in one of its most powerful ever tests, with Japan saying the weapon may have had the range to hit the United States mainland. The missile was believed to have landed in Japan’s […]