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Icebreakers Arktika and Sibir being assembled at the Baltic Shipyard, St. Petersburg At St. Petersburg’s historic Baltic Shipyard, cranes hover over the shining Neva River as hundreds of workers build four nuclear-powered icebreakers.Fronted by a Russian flag and named after the country’s northern regions, the giant vessels are meant to ensure Moscow’s dominance over the […]

FILE – Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam is seen in photo posted March 7, 2020, on her Twitter. MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – Somalia’s top leaders, all men, have struggled for years to tame the Horn of Africa nation’s insecurity and corruption. Lawmaker Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam says it’s time for a woman’s touch and on Tuesday announced […]

KABUL (Pajhwok): Former President George W. Bush on Wednesday criticized the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan and said civilians were being left to be “slaughtered” by the Taliban. “I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad,” he told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. “Afghan women and girls are going to suffer unspeakable harm. This is […]

FILE PHOTO: An Afghan security forces member keeps watch as he sits in an army vehicle in Bagram U.S. air base, after American troops vacated it, in Parwan province, Afghanistan July 5, 2021. © Mohammad Ismail, Reuters  Thousands of interpreters who aided US and NATO forces in Afghanistan will be evacuated beginning in late July, Washington announced Wednesday, […]

At least 12 people, including nine Chinese workers, were killed on Wednesday when the bus they were travelling in was struck by a ‘blast’ in the Kohistan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The bus was ferrying workers of the Dasu dam project. According to area officials, multiple passengers were also injured in the incident. “At around 7 am […]

FILE: Dozens of migrants, from Egypt, Morocco, Somalia and Sierra Leone, wait to be assisted by a team of aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, , Sept. 8, 2020.   –   Copyright  Santi Palacios/Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.  The number of migrants and refugees who died on dangerous sea routes to Europe more than […]

People walk near a tank of alleged Ethiopian army that is abandoned on the road near Dengolat, southwest of Mekele in Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 20, 2021. © Yasuyoshi Chiba, AFP Tigrayan forces claimed Tuesday to have launched a new offensive in the conflict-torn northern region of Ethiopia, two weeks after the federal government declared […]

 Turkey strongly condemned Israel for destroying Palestinian families’ homes in the Humsa al-Fawka village northeast of West Bank, saying that the displacement of Palestinians, including children, amounts to the violation of international law. Palestinian children play on top of the demolished house of Khalil Dweikat, in the occupied West Bank village of Rojeeb, Palestine, Nov. […]

Initial police reports suggested that an oxygen tank explosion inside the hospital’s COVID-19 ward was the likely cause of the fire Two health workers were among the dead RIYADH: The death toll in Iraq’s coronavirus hospital fire in the southern city of Nassiriya has risen to 64, and over 67 people were also injured, state news […]

KABUL: Kabul international airport has been equipped with an air defence system to counter incoming rockets, said the Ministry of Defense on Sunday, a measure to quell missile attacks as the Taliban militants continue to sweet across the country. “The defense system was fitted at Kabul Airport on Sunday and has proved useful in repelling […]