Former Nazi camp guard, 101, faces German court verdict
BSS/AFP :A German court will give its verdict on Tuesday in the trial of a 101-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard, the oldest person so...
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Three dead, multiple injuries in US train derailment
BSS/AFP :Three people died on Monday when a long- distance train collided with a dump truck in a rural region of the US state of...
Putin guarantees supply of fertilizers to Brazil
BSS/AFP :Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday promised his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro that Russia “is committed” to maintaining its delivery of much-needed fertilizers to...
Ukraine pleads for air defence as Russia turns sights on Lysychansk
Agency :Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday urged Western leaders to supply anti-aircraft defence systems to his embattled nation as Russian forces assaulted Lysychansk, the...
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka shuts schools, urges work from home to save fuel
Agency :With its foreign exchange reserves at a record low, the island of 22 million is struggling to pay for essential imports of food, medicine...
Thousands of demonstrators rally in Madrid against NATO summit
AP :Thousands of demonstrators rallied here on Sunday to call for peace and protest against a NATO summit to be held here this week.Social, antimilitarist...
Village life left in ruins after deadly Afghan quake
BSS :Village life has always been tough for Afghans in the rugged mountains of the east, but compared to what they are enduring today it...
Saudi crown prince, Iraq PM discuss ‘regional stability’
BSSIraq’s prime minister met with Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in the kingdom on Sunday as part of Baghdad’s efforts...
Macron tasks French PM with new talks to form ‘government of action’
BSS :French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday “confirmed” his confidence in Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in an interview with AFP, after the premier came under...
WHO says monkey pox not currently a global health emergency
BSS :The World Health Organization’s chief said Saturday that the monkeypox outbreak was a deeply concerning evolving threat but did not currently constitute a global...
Erdogan signals no progress on Sweden’s NATO bid
BSS :Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signalled on Saturday that no progress had been made in Sweden’s bid to join NATO, urging Stockholm to take...
Ukraine war strains ties between Kazakhstan and Russia
BSS/AFP :Kazakhstan, which shares the world’s longest continuous border with Russia, has long balanced its status as Moscow’s most trusted ally in ex-Soviet Central Asia...