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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, […]

Strasbourg, France, Sept 15 (AFP/APP): Hungary reacted furiously Thursday to a vote in the European Parliament that declared that the country was no longer a “full democracy” and that the European Union needed to act. Their response came after MEPs voted 433 in favour, 123 […]

Stockholm, Sept 14 (AFP/APP): Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Wednesday announced that she would resign after an unprecedented right-wing and far-right bloc narrowly won Sunday’s election. Out of the Swedish parliament’s 349 seats, the right-wing opposition was set to win 176, thanks in part […]

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 […]