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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 […]

Tokyo, Aug 24 (AFP/APP): Japan’s prime minister on Wednesday called for a push to revive the country’s nuclear power industry in a bid to tackle soaring imported energy costs linked to the war in Ukraine. Such a move could prove controversial, after the 2011 Fukushima […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug 23 (AFP/APP): Washington warned on Tuesday that Russia could attack Ukrainian government facilities in the coming days as Moscow said it would show “no mercy” over an assassination it has blamed on Ukraine. World leaders also reasserted their support for the country […]

Baghdad, Aug 23 (AFP/APP):Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr held a sit-in outside the top judicial body for several hours on Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions in a showdown with a rival Shiite alliance. Caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi cut short a visit to Egypt […]

Washington, Aug 22 (AFP/APP): Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease expert who became the face of America’s fight against Covid-19, announced Monday that he will leave government service after more than 50 years in December, stepping down as advisor to President Joe Biden. In the […]

WASHINGTON / SEOUL – August 22 (ONLINE) South Korea and the United States have launched their largest joint military drills in years, officials said, as the allies seek to tighten readiness over North Korea’s potential weapons tests. The annual summertime exercises in Korea, renamed Ulchi […]

KYIV – August 21 (ONLINE) President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged vigilance ahead of Wednesday’s celebrations of 31 years of Ukraine’s independence from Soviet rule, as shells rained down near Europe’s biggest nuclear plant and Russian forces struck in the south and east. Ukrainians must not allow […]

MOSCOW – August 21 (ONLINE) The daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue who advocates Russia absorbing Ukraine was killed in a suspected car bomb attack outside Moscow, Russian state investigators said on Sunday. Darya Dugina, daughter of prominent ideologue Alexander Dugin, was killed on Saturday […]

Karbala, Iraq, Aug 21 (AFP/APP):Iraqi rescue workers were Sunday battling to free at least six pilgrims trapped under rubble after a landslide hit a shrine in the central province of Karbala. It was feared that “between six and eight people are still caught” under the […]