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Moscow, Sept 29 (AFP/APP):Russia will annex four regions of Ukraine that its troops occupy at a grand ceremony in the Kremlin on Friday, Moscow said, after President Vladimir Putin threatened he could use nuclear weapons to defend the territories. The threats have not deterred a […]

Washington, Sept 29 (AFP/APP): The US Senate approved $12 billion in new economic and military aid for Ukraine Thursday as part of a stopgap extension of the federal budget into December. The measure, agreed by senators of both parties, includes $3 billion for arms, supplies […]

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 29 (APP): As the war in Ukraine stokes a crisis for countries that are struggling just to access the food they need, the world community needs to ensure that doesn’t spill over into a “food availability crisis”, the head of Food and […]

Brussels, Sept 28 (AFP/APP):The EU’s executive on Wednesday proposed a new round of sanctions on Moscow over its latest “escalation” in Ukraine, including an oil price cap and ban on Russian exports worth seven billion euros ($7 billion). It also plans to expand its travel […]

Stockholm, Sept 28 (AFP/APP): The UN Security Council will meet Friday to discuss the leaks in the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea, suspected to be sabotage, Sweden and the French council presidency said Wednesday. “As the current Security Council president France has informed […]

Sulaimaniyah, Irak, Sept 28 (AFP/APP): Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family when she encountered the notorious morality police and died after a “violent blow to the head”, her cousin living in Iraq said. “Jhina’s death has opened the doors of […]

KABUL 28 Sep (Online): Taliban government has signed an agreement to import oil, gas and wheat from Russian government. According to international news agency, Russian will provide one million tons of petrol and one million tons of Diesels to Afghanistan. Afghan minister for trade said […]

Conakry, Sept 27 (AFP/APP):Former Guinean dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and several co-defendants were sent to prison Tuesday, a day before their trial opens for the 2009 stadium massacre, their lawyers said. The prosecutor had “our six clients taken to the central house (prison) where they […]

Paris, Sept 27 (AFP/APP): Iranians on Tuesday staged a 12th straight night of protests over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, in defiance of a crackdown that a rights group says has killed more than 75 people. The women-led demonstrations flared after the 22-year-old […]

Tbilisi, Sept 27 (AFP/APP):Georgia and Kazakhstan said Tuesday that tens of thousands of Russians had flooded into their countries from neighbouring Russia since the announcement of partial mobilisation to fight in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week announced the call-up of thousands of reservists, […]