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Kyiv: Ukraine said Sunday that its forces had retaken Klishchiivka, a tactically important town south of the key frontline city of Bakhmut, as it pursues a counter-attack against Russia’s grinding offensive. Battlefield victories are especially important for Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelensky prepares his second wartime visit to Washington next week in a bid to…
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The military leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger on Saturday signed a mutual defence pact, ministerial delegations from the three Sahel countries announced in Mali’s capital Bamako. The Liptako-Gourma Charter establishes the Alliance of Sahel States (AES), Mali’s junta leader Assimi Goita posted on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. Its aim…
Paris: A threatening letter sent by local education authorities to the parents of a boy who died by suicide after complaining of being bullied has embarrassed France’s government, which described the communication as “shameful”. The boy, named as Nicolas, 15, killed himself on September 5, one day after children went back to class in France…
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Evergrande is the world’s most heavily indebted real estate developer, at the center of a property market crisis that is dragging on China’s economic growth. File | Photo Credit: AP The police in a southern Chinese city said they have detained some staff at China Evergrande Group’s wealth management unit in the latest trouble for…
Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy chief Wang Yi. File | Photo Credit: AP White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Malta this weekend, a U.S. official said on Sunday, as the world’s two largest economies seek to stabilise troubled relations. Mr. Sullivan’s meeting with Mr. Wang was…
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Johannesburg: At least 20 employees of mining giant De Beers have been killed in a road accident in South Africa, local officials said Sunday. The bus involved was ferrying staff from the Venetia mine, one of the biggest diamond mines in the country, said a transport official in Limpopo province, in the north of the…
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China flew 28 warplanes around Taiwan on Sunday, with most crossing the median line of the Taiwan Strait for unspecified “long range” missions, Taipei authorities said. Taiwan’s defence ministry said 20 of the aircraft detected since Sunday morning crossed the median line of the waterway separating Taiwan and mainland China, and entered the self-ruled island’s…
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In this photo released by Government of Primorsky Krai Region, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un waves as he boards his train prior to leaving Artyom, near Vladivostok, Russian Far East on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Russia on Sunday after a rare six-day visit…
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A guerrilla fighter from the FARC dissidence Jaime Martinez stands guard near the town of Suarez, department of Cauca. File | Photo Credit: AFP Four Colombian Army soldiers were killed in fights with FARC dissidents a day before a meeting between the rebel group and the government to consolidate peace talks, Bogota’s Defense Ministry said…
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Joe Biden in a statement on Friday said Amini “inspired a historic movement” Sporadic protests continued in Iran on Sunday amid a widespread crackdown by security forces a year after a young Kurdish woman’s death in custody set off some of the worst political unrest in four decades. The death on September 16 last year…
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