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Final push for global pandemic treaty to begin on Tuesday in Geneva

Final push for global pandemic treaty to begin...

Geneva [Switzerland], April 13: Negotiators are entering the final stretch in protracted efforts to forge a global pandemic treaty aimed...

Bomb explodes outside Greece's railway company's offices in Athens

Bomb explodes outside Greece's railway company's offices in...

Athens [Greece], April 12: A bomb exploded Friday night outside the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece's railway company that operates...

Rwanda's urban inflation rises by 6.5% year-on-year in March

Rwanda's urban inflation rises by 6.5% year-on-year in...

Kigali [Rwanda], April 12: Rwanda's urban inflation rose sharply in March 2025, with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increasing by...

Zambia launches construction of power transmission line to Tanzania

Zambia launches construction of power transmission line to...

Lusaka [Zambia], April 12: Zambia on Friday launched the construction of a power transmission line connected to Tanzania as well...

Tanzanian opposition leader charged with treason

Tanzanian opposition leader charged with treason

Dar es Salaam [Tanzania], April 12: Tanzania's opposition leader Tundu Lissu has been charged with treason and dissemination of false...

Security beefed up following unrest in NE Ghana

Security beefed up following unrest in NE Ghana

Accra [Ghana], April 12: Ghanaian police have beefed up security in several communities in the northeastern region following recent unrest...

UN calls for peaceful, transparent presidential election in Gabon

UN calls for peaceful, transparent presidential election in...

Libreville [Gabon], April 12: Abdou Abarry, special representative of the UN Secretary-General for Central Africa and head of the United...

Namibia opens Africa's first green iron plant

Namibia opens Africa's first green iron plant

Windhoek [Namibia], April 12: Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Friday inaugurated Africa's first industrial-scale green iron plant, a facility that...

Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo to be held in Q3

Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo to be held in Q3

Harare [Zimbabwe], April 12: Zimbabwe will hold the first Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo in the third quarter of this year to...

Roundup: UN agencies warn of worsening humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan

Roundup: UN agencies warn of worsening humanitarian catastrophe...

Khartoum [Sudan], April 12: Officials from United Nations (UN) agencies and international organizations on Friday warned about the scale of...

Tunisian students celebrate Chinese Language Day

Tunisian students celebrate Chinese Language Day

Tunis [Tunisia], April 12: The Higher Institute of Languages of Tunis (ISLT) and the Confucius Institute at Carthage University held...

Nigeria to impose 15-USD daily fine on visa defaulters

Nigeria to impose 15-USD daily fine on visa...

Nigeria [Abuja], April 12: Nigeria will implement a new policy that imposes a 15-U.S. dollar daily fine on travelers who...

Sexual violence against children rises alarmingly in eastern DRC: UNICEF

Sexual violence against children rises alarmingly in eastern...

Washington DC [US], April 12: A child was reported raped on average every 30 minutes during intense January and February...

Column: Folly of "reciprocal tariffs": How America's trade war harms its own people, global economy

Column: Folly of "reciprocal tariffs": How America's trade...

Washington DC [US], April 12: In an era when global interdependence defines prosperity, the United States' recent embrace of "reciprocal...

Top U.S. bank leaders warn of risks from trade tensions

Top U.S. bank leaders warn of risks from...

New York [US], April 12: Leaders of top U.S. banks Friday warned of risks and uncertainties from U.S. tariffs and...

U.S. judge allows Trump admin to deport Columbia University student

U.S. judge allows Trump admin to deport Columbia...

Houston [Texas], April 12: A U.S. immigration judge ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil, a...

3 killed, 1 injured after small plane crashes in U.S. Florida

3 killed, 1 injured after small plane crashes...

Houston [Texas], April 12: A small plane crashed near Boca Raton Regional Airport in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida...

General Motors to initiate temporary layoffs in Canada

General Motors to initiate temporary layoffs in Canada

Ottawa [Canada], April 12: General Motors on Friday announced a temporary shutdown of one plant in Canada with hundreds of...

5.2-magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea region: GFZ

5.2-magnitude quake hits Papua New Guinea region: GFZ

New York [US], April 12: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Papua New Guinea region at 22:24:50 GMT...

Company fine doubled to $3m for workplace manslaughter

Company fine doubled to $3m for workplace manslaughter

Washington DC [US], April 12: The fine handed down to the first company prosecuted under Victoria's workplace manslaughter laws has...

Pennsylvania man charged over threats to kill Trump, immigration agents

Pennsylvania man charged over threats to kill Trump,...

Harrisburg [Pennsylvania], April 12: A Pennsylvania man has been charged with making threats online to murder President Donald Trump and...

Prisoners released by Israel show signs of torture

Prisoners released by Israel show signs of torture

Tel Aviv [Israel], April 11: Footage has shown 10 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arriving at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in...

Kiev's closest allies mull post-war mission amid US reluctance

Kiev's closest allies mull post-war mission amid US...

Brussels [Belgium], April 11: Defence ministers from the "coalition of the willing" nations, who are some of Kiev's closest allies,...

US secures release of dual national jailed in Russia for Ukraine aid

US secures release of dual national jailed in...

Washington [US], April 11: Ksenia Karelina, a US-Russian dual national sentenced to 12 years in Russia for donating about $50...

Argentinians join general strike over president's austerity measures

Argentinians join general strike over president's austerity measures

Buenos Aires [Argentina], April 11: Workers went on strike in Argentina on Thursday in protest at the harsh austerity programme...

More than 300 deaths reported in Austria's mountains in 2024

More than 300 deaths reported in Austria's mountains...

Vienna [Austria], April 11: A total of 309 people lost their lives in the Austrian Alps last year while taking...

European army cannot replace NATO, says German President Steinmeier

European army cannot replace NATO, says German President...

Koblenz [Germany], April 11: A European army would not be a replacement for NATO, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on...