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Catania, Italy, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):Three migrants rescued from the Mediterranean and brought to a Sicilian port but then banned from disembarking jumped into the sea in desperation Monday, trapped in a standoff between charity ships and Italy’s new hard-right government. The men were quickly pulled […]

Washington, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):More than 42 million Americans have cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, surpassing the numbers from 2018, the US Elections Project said Monday. Americans will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect 435 members of the House of Representatives, […]

Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Nov 7 (AFP/APP):UN chief Antonio Guterres warned world leaders at a climate summit in Egypt on Monday that humanity faces a stark choice between working together or “collective suicide” in the battle against global warming. Nearly 100 heads of state and […]

MUNICH – November 6 (ONLINE) German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is facing allegations that the numbers of refugees arriving in Germany since the start of the year have been manipulated, local media reports have said. Saturday’s reports said that while Faeser claims only 57,647 refugees […]

ISLAMABAD / LAHORE – November 6 (ONLINE) Former Prime Minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday announced his party will resume marching towards Islamabad this Tuesday from the very point in Punjab’s Wazirabad where he was shot at. Imran’s ‘Haqiqi Azadi March’ was disrupted […]

Rome, Nov 6 (AFP/APP):Italy on Sunday took in families with babies and vulnerable migrants rescued in the Mediterranean as charities slammed Rome’s decision to order the others back into international waters. As humanitarian vessels waited in the port of Catania to disembark those saved, a […]

Cairo, Nov 6 (AFP/APP):Jailed Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah has stopped drinking water, his family said Sunday, escalating his hunger strike as world leaders arrive in the country for the COP27 climate summit. A major figure in the 2011 revolt that toppled longtime president Hosni […]

Seoul, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):North Korea fired four short-range ballistic missiles into the sea on Saturday, the South Korean military said, the latest in a blitz of weapons launches by Pyongyang this week. The flurry of North Korean launches has included an intercontinental ballistic missile and […]

Seoul, Nov 5 (AFP/APP):A US B-1B long-range heavy bomber will participate in ongoing joint air drills with South Korea on Saturday, a defence ministry official in Seoul told, ramping up a show of force after North Korea’s blitz of missile launches. Pyongyang’s flurry of launches […]

Moscow, Nov 4 (AFP/APP):Moscow was pushing ahead Friday with a civilian pullout from the Russian-occupied Kherson region amid a mounting Ukrainian counter-offensive, with President Vladimir Putin saying residents must be “removed” from danger zones. The Russian army said “more than 5,000 civilians” were being led […]