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Brussels, Aug 26 (AFP/APP):A van driver ploughed through a crowded cafe terrace in Brussels’ city centre shopping and tourism district on Friday, slightly wounding six people before escaping the scene. A suspect was later arrested in the northern port city of Antwerp and he is […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug 26 (AFP/APP): Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant occupied by Moscow’s troops came back online Friday, the state operator said, after Kyiv claimed it was cut from the national power grid by Russian shelling. The plant — Europe’s largest nuclear facility — was severed […]

SUKKUR, Aug 26 (APP): The federal government will provide a grant of Rs 15 billion to the Sindh government to overcome the heavy losses of lives and infrastructure in the wake of the massive destruction caused by flash floods, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on […]

KABUL 25 Aug (Online): Afghan women’s rights activists opened a library in Kabul on Wednesday, hoping to provide an oasis for women increasingly cut off from education and public life under the ruling Taliban. Since taking over Afghanistan a year ago, the Islamist Taliban have […]

Damascus, Aug 25 (AFP/APP): Syria said Thursday two civilians were wounded in a series of Israeli air strikes on the western Hama and Tartus regions, state news agency SANA reported. “Around 7:15 pm (1615 GMT) our air defences faced an Israeli attack coming from the […]

Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Aug 25 (AFP/APP): Thousands of Rohingya refugees held “Genocide Remembrance Day” rallies on Thursday across a huge network of camps in Bangladesh, marking five years since fleeing a military offensive in Myanmar. In August 2017 around 750,000 of the mostly Muslim minority streamed […]

Tehran 24 Aug (Online): Iran will not allow inspections beyond what is in a 2015 nuclear deal, the country’s nuclear chief said on Wednesday, as the United States prepares to respond to a proposal to revive Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers. “We are committed […]

DHAKA 24 Aug (Online): Bangladesh will close schools for one extra day a week and cut office timings by an hour to save power, a government official said on Monday, as the country battles a shortage after shutting down all of its diesel-run power plants. […]

Washington, Aug 24 (AFP/APP):Russia could begin announcing referenda designed to formalize its control of occupied parts of Ukraine as soon as this week, a senior White House official said Wednesday. The United States has learned “that Russian leadership has instructed officials to begin preparing to […]

Paris, Aug 24 (AFP/APP): French President Emmanuel Macron warned Wednesday that France faced “sacrifices” in a new era marked by climate change and instability caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that signalled “the end of abundance”. After a summer marked by drought, massive wildfires and […]