New Japan PM sends offering to Yasukuni shrine
AFP :Japan’s new prime minister on Sunday sent a ritual offering to the controversial Yasukuni shrine that honours war dead and is seen by neighbouring...
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Venezuela’s fugitive businessman extradited to US
BSS :A fugitive businessman accused of acting as a money launderer for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s regime was extradited Saturday to the United States from...
Iranian warship fends off pirate attack in Gulf of Aden
Al jazeera :Pirates on five boats attacked two Iranian oil tankers but were repelled by army vessels, authorities said.Tehran, Iran – An Iranian warship has...
Ship sinks in Brazil, 6 dead
BSS :At least six people died and another one is missing after a ship sank in the Paraguay River in the central-western Brazilian state of...
Up to 17 US missionaries and family kidnapped in Haiti
Reuters :As many as 17 American Christian missionaries and their families, including children, were kidnapped on Saturday by gang members in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince,...
Myanmar junta chief excluded from ASEAN summit
BSS :Myanmar junta chief will be excluded from an upcoming ASEAN summit, the group said on Saturday, a rare rebuke as concerns rise over the...
US offers to pay families of Afghans killed in drone attack
Al Jazeera :The Pentagon had said earlier that the August 29 attack targeted an ISKP suicide bomber who posed an imminent threat to US-led troops...
WTO again fails to agree on Covid vaccine patent waive
BSS :The World Trade Organization said on Friday that its member nations had again failed to agree to suspend intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines,...
3 killed, 7 injured as quake hits Indonesia’s Bali
BSS :Three people were killed and seven others suffered broken bones with another one still buried under rubbles of a building after a 4.8-magnitude quake...
Russia chased out US navy ship from its waters
BSS :Moscow said that one of its warships chased away a US Navy destroyer recently after it attempted to violate Russia’s territorial waters in the...
US Navy says sailors who refuse vaccine will be expelled
BSS :The US Navy said on Thursday that personnel who refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19 will be expelled from the force, ahead of the...
Russia urges restraint in Lebanon
BSS :Russia’s foreign ministry on Friday called on all sides in Lebanon to “show restraint” after deadly clashes rocked itscapital Beirut as tensions rise over...