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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, […]

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) […]