South Korea’s Yoon calls for unification
South Korea’s president lambasted North Korea on Friday over what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula, weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rejected the idea of peaceful unification and threatened to occupy the South in the event of war. South...
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Medevac plane lands in Malaysia where Norwegian king is hospitalised
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Pakistan’s new president to be elected on March 9; Zardari frontrunner
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Nawaz Sharif’s party leader Sadiq elected Speaker of Pakistan’s National Assembly
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Barrister Gohar Khan re-elected PTI chairman
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Biden urged to withhold Pak govt’s ‘recognition’
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Musk sues OpenAI and its CEO Sam
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Haley hammers Trump for being all about himself
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Concern over Pope asking aide to read speech aloud for him
Pope Francis, who has been suffering from the flu, asked an aide to read out his prepared speech at a conference in the Vatican Friday, saying he has not yet fully recovered from his latest ailment that has raised concerns about his capacity to continue leading the Roman Catholic Church. ...
Stubb: It took final step into Western community by joining NATO
Alexander Stubb was sworn in Friday as Finland’s new president and said the Nordic country has taken “the final step into the Western community of values” by becoming a NATO member. The 55-year-old former prime minister replaced President Sauli Niinistö, who held the job for two six-year terms. Stubb, a...
Veteran British left-wing disruptor wins special election
A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a town in northern England with a big Muslim minority following a contest that was mired in chaos and controversy and dominated by the war in Gaza. George Galloway, 69, swept to victory in Thursday’s contest, winning almost 40%...
B’desh shopping mall fire in kills at least 46
A massive fire that ripped through a seven-storey shopping mall in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka that also housed several illegal eateries killed at least 46 people and injured 22 others, the government said on Friday, in one of the worst infernos to hit the country in recent years. The fire broke...
‘UK’s Rwanda deportation plan may cost 500 mn pounds’
The British government’s contentious plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda could cost nearly half a billion pounds, or about $630 million, plus hundreds of thousands for each deported person, a report said Friday. The National Audit Office report — issued at the behest of parliamentary...
Navalny, who galvanised oppn to Putin, laid to rest
Under a heavy police presence, thousands of people bade farewell Friday to Alexei Navalny at his funeral in Moscow after his still-unexplained death two weeks ago in an Arctic penal colony. The service followed a battle with authorities over the release of the body of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic....
Kishida vows no more fundraising parties
Japan’s beleaguered prime minister renewed his apology over his governing party’s corruption scandal, promising to not hold any more parties himself as leader during a political ethics committee Thursday. Fumio Kishida has fought against plummeting support ratings since his governing party’s corruption scandal rocked the government. The scandal, considered the...