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WEST BANK 20 Sep (Online): Palestinian gunmen clashed with Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and one man was killed in the confrontations, which broke out after the arrest of two militants, witnesses and medics said. Armed group Hamas, […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 20 (APP): The President of 77th session of the UN General Assembly Csaba Korosi said Tuesday that devastation left behind by the unprecedented foods in Pakistan “can be a window into our future.” “I stand in solidarity with the people of Pakistan, […]

Nairobi, Sept 20 (AFP/APP): Ethiopia on Tuesday rejected a report by UN investigators that accused Addis Ababa of possible ongoing crimes against humanity in its war-torn Tigray region, including using starvation as a weapon. The Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia said it had […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 (APP):Marking one year since the Taliban decreed that girls should be excluded from high school, UN chief Antonio Guterres has urged the defacto rulers to “let them back in” without delay. In a strong personal appeal, the UN Secretary-General tweeted Sunday […]

TAIPEI 18 Sep (Online): A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, the island’s weather bureau said, causing damage including derailed train carriages, and sparking tsunami warnings. The weather bureau said the epicentre was in Taitung country and followed […]

Izumi, Japan, Sept 18 (AFP/APP):Typhoon Nanmadol made landfall in southwestern Japan on Sunday night, as authorities urged millions of people to take shelter from the powerful storm’s high winds and torrential rain. The storm officially made landfall around 7 pm local time (1000 GMT) as […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Sept 17 (AFP/APP): Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is receiving power from the national grid once again, the UN’s atomic agency (IAEA) said Saturday, after it was cut off from external power, raising the risk of an accident. The Russian-occupied plant had been cut […]

Hanoi, Sept 17 (AFP/APP):Vietnamese authorities have arrested the owner of a karaoke bar where a fire killed 32 people earlier this month, police said Saturday. The blaze ripped through a three-storey entertainment venue nine days ago in a dense residential neighbourhood of Thuan An city, […]

Samarkand, Sep 16 (Online): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif held a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 22nd SCO Council of Heads of State in Samarkand, today. This was the Prime Minister’s first meeting with the President of China since […]

Matadi, DR Congo, Sept 15 (AFP/APP): At least seven people were killed and 16 others badly burned when a tanker truck exploded in a village in western Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial chief said Thursday. The blast occurred overnight in the village of Mbuba, […]