The French military said on Friday that it is ready to respond if any renewed tensions in Niger target its military and diplomatic facilities in the conflict-hit West African country. “The French army is ready to respond to any renewed tension that would target French military and diplomatic facilities in Niger,” the French General Staff […]
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Islamabad: Pakistan witnessed a sharp rise in militant attacks in August, with 99 incidents reported across the country, the highest number in any single month since November 2014. The attacks resulted in 112 deaths and 87 injuries, mostly among security forces personnel and civilians. There was a 83 percent rise in militant attacks compared with […]
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After his death sentence for taking part in anti-government protests was overturned by Iran’s supreme court, an Iranian man who was imprisoned last year passed away in custody on Thursday, the BBC reported. Javad Rouhi, 35, who was arrested last year during protests over Mahsa Amini’s death in custody for allegedly wearing “improper” hijab, died […]
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The caretaker government has pushed through a sharp hike in the price of petrol by Rs14.91 per litre and high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs18.44 per litre. The increase brings the price of petrol to Rs305.36 per litre and HSD to Rs311.84 per litre, the Ministry of Finance said in a post on X (formerly Twitter) […]
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Finland’s government has agreed on a policy to fight racism after months of accusations against the right-wing coalition government. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, whose conservative National Coalition Party (NCP) narrowly won the April election, said on Thursday that his government agreed to tackle racism and discrimination. “Every minister in the government will renounce racism and […]
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China’s President Xi Jinping is not expected to attend the G20 summit in India next week and will send Premier Li Qiang in his stead, a senior EU official said Thursday. “My last information… was that Xi didn’t intend to travel, it would be the prime minister,” the official told reporters in Brussels ahead of […]
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Nine soldiers were martyred while five others were injured in a suicide attack at a military convoy in the Jani Khel general area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Thursday. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a “motorcycle-borne suicide bomber exploded himself on a […]
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A growing crisis in China’s “shadow banking” sector is threatening further damage to an economy reeling from multiple problems, even as a new report questions the ability of the government in Beijing to come to the rescue via fiscal stimulus. On Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported that Chinese authorities have enlisted the Citic Trust Co., a […]
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The European Union’s fossil fuel energy production hit a record low the first half of the year, think tank Ember Climate has reported, although green sources are struggling to fill the gap. The decline in coal and gas generation was driven by a drop in electricity consumption across the bloc of 4.6 percent amid high […]
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At least 73 people were killed and over 50 injured in a fire in the central business district of South Africa’s biggest city Johannesburg, the municipal government said on Thursday. Firefighters and emergency vehicles were on the scene, while bodies lay covered on a street near the site of the deadly blaze, Reuters photographs showed. […]
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