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OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso was in mourning Wednesday after militants killed 35 civilians, almost all of them women, in double attacks in the north in one of the deadliest assaults in nearly five years of violence in the West African country.Seven soldiers and 80 militants also died in Tuesday’s simultaneous attacks on the town of Arbinda…
SAO PAULO: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday night that he briefly lost his memory after falling at his presidential residence in Brasilia, the capital, earlier this week.The president’s office disclosed on Monday that Bolsonaro, 64, had suffered a fall and was taken to a hospital Monday night for a brain scan, which detected…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday rejected a plea from the daughter of a convicted former prime minister to remove her name from the country’s no-fly list, as she sought to travel to London to see her sick father Nawaz Sharif. Maryam Nawaz, who is vice president of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N Party, has been on…
MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte has urged Malaysia and Indonesia to accept Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma). Duterte made the call on Monday as he expressed anew his solidarity with the persecuted minority group, reiterating his willingness to accept them in the Philippines. “I am prepared. I have communicated…
MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte has urged Malaysia and Indonesia to accept Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in the northern Rakhine province of Myanmar (Burma). Duterte made the call on Monday as he expressed anew his solidarity with the persecuted minority group, reiterating his willingness to accept them in the Philippines. “I am prepared. I have communicated…
KABUL: Afghanistan’s politics were in limbo Monday after President Ashraf Ghani’s main rival rejected the preliminary results of September’s election and his team filed thousands of complaints about the initial outcome. After a delay of nearly two months the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced Sunday that Ghani had secured 50.64 percent of the vote, while…
KABUL: Afghanistan’s politics were in limbo Monday after President Ashraf Ghani’s main rival rejected the preliminary results of September’s election and his team filed thousands of complaints about the initial outcome. After a delay of nearly two months the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced Sunday that Ghani had secured 50.64 percent of the vote, while…
TEHRAN: Dangerously poor air quality forced Iran’s government on Monday to extend school closures in the capital Tehran, a city home to over 10 million people.Schools have been closed since Saturday and will remain shut until Wednesday, the end of Iran's workweek, according to the official IRNA news agency.Nearby mountains were completely obscured by the…
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was announced on Sunday to be leading the preliminary presidential poll results by the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC). Addressing a press conference in Kabul, IEC chief Hawa Alam Nuristani said Ghani had secured 50.64 percent of the votes cast during the Sept. 28 election, while Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah got…
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was announced on Sunday to be leading the preliminary presidential poll results by the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC). Addressing a press conference in Kabul, IEC chief Hawa Alam Nuristani said Ghani had secured 50.64 percent of the votes cast during the Sept. 28 election, while Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah got…
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was announced on Sunday to be leading the preliminary presidential poll results by the country’s Independent Election Commission (IEC). Addressing a press conference in Kabul, IEC chief Hawa Alam Nuristani said Ghani had secured 50.64 percent of the votes cast during the Sept. 28 election, while Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah got…
NEW DELHI: Protests in India against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) intensified and spread further on Friday. The CAA gives citizenship to persecuted minorities from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan but excludes Muslims. Several areas in Uttar Pradesh witnessed violent protests, with reports of at least six deaths. In the city of Meerut in the northern Indian…
NEW DELHI: Protests in India against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) intensified and spread further on Friday. The CAA gives citizenship to persecuted minorities from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan but excludes Muslims. Several areas in Uttar Pradesh witnessed violent protests, with reports of at least six deaths. In the city of Meerut in the northern Indian…
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council said on Friday it would file a petition in the Supreme Court to defend a judge who wrote the verdict in the high treason case against the country’s former leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. The government had criticized the wordings of the ruling, saying it would file a reference against the judge…
MANILA: Ten years on from the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in which 57 people died — including 32 journalists and media workers — justice has finally been served. On Thursday, Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 221 found the principal accused — led by key members of the powerful Ampatuan clan based…
MANILA: Ten years on from the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in which 57 people died — including 32 journalists and media workers — justice has finally been served. On Thursday, Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 221 found the principal accused — led by key members of the powerful Ampatuan clan based…
BERLIN: Germany’s Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday calling for a national ban on the activities of Hezbollah and for the Lebanese militant group to be put on the EU’s terrorist list. Mathias Middelberg, the spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in Parliament, said the joint resolution was agreed upon with the junior coalition Social…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump was impeached by the US House of Representatives Wednesday night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors.The historic vote split along party lines, much the way it has divided the nation, over a charge that the 45th…
MANILA: A top Philippines general in charge of the troubled Mindanao region has said that the popularity of Daesh had diminished “significantly” as trust in the government had grown and insurgents had been crushed by a continuing military offensive. The Philippines has been concerned that Daesh supporters from the region and those fleeing Iraq and…
