UNITED NATIONS : United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday condemned the massive killing in a Malian village, where reports said at least 134 civilians were killed. “The secretary-general is shocked and outraged by reports that at least 134 civilians, including women and...
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SEOUL : South Korea has suffered a sharper drop in exports than other OECD member countries, due largely to its heavy dependence on semiconductors and petrochemical goods, data showed Sunday. According to the data compiled by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, South...
BAMAKO : More than 130 people were killed in an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali on Saturday, the United Nations said, as a delegation visited the country. Survivors accused traditional Dogon hunters of carrying out the deadly raid in Ogossagou, according to Boubacar Kane, the governor...
West Palm Beach (US) : The US will host a delegation from China led by Vice Premier Liu He early next month, following a trip by US officials to China in an effort to improve trade relations, the White House said Saturday. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said President Donald Trump is...
JAKARTA : A 6.3-magnitude quake jolted Indonesia’s eastern North Maluku province on Sunday with no tsunami alert issued, the meteorology and geophysics agency said here. The quake struck at 1:37 p.m. local time (0437 GMT) with the epicenter at 139 km northwest Jailolo of the province and the...
BUENOS AIRES : The United Nations (UN) agreed to promote cooperation to achieve sustainable development goals at the Second High-level UN Conference on South-South Cooperation concluded here Friday. The conference issued a political declaration to advance cooperation to achieve the 2030 Agenda for...
DAMASCUS : The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Saturday the defeat of the Islamic State (IS) militant group in eastern Syria, the SDF spokesman said. The town of Baghouz, the last IS redoubt in eastern Syria, has been fully liberated, announced Mustafa Bali. He also sent...
Islamabad [Pakistan] : Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi on Saturday said that his country wants to “resolve all issues” with India through a comprehensive dialogue, but added that this “desire for peace should not be considered as weakness.” Addressing a gathering...
PANAMA CITY :Panama’s ex-president Ricardo Martinelli faces up to 21 years in jail for spying on political foes, reporters and business leaders while in power, prosecutors said Friday. Martinelli created and directed “an organized state apparatus” for domestic espionage when in...
BEIJING : The death toll in a chemical plant explosion in China rose to 64 Saturday but rescuers found a survivor among more than two dozen still missing in the debris of one of the country’s worst industrial accidents in recent years. Thursday’s explosion in the eastern city of...
