Mediators make final push for Gaza truce deal
DOHA, Jan 15 (AFP): Mediators were making a final push Wednesday to seal a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, after a Qatari official involved in the talks expressed hope an agreement could be reached "very soon".Qatar, Egypt and the United States have intensified efforts to broker a ceasefire and...
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Pezeshkian warns Trump against risking 'war'
WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (AFP): Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran was not seeking "nuclear weaponry" and warned US President-elect Donald Trump against risking "war" with the Islamic republic, according to a US televised interview broadcast Tuesday."I do hope that Trump will conduce to peace in the region and the world...
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Imran defiant even as longer sentence looms
ISLAMABAD, Jan 15 (AFP): Imran Khan, Pakistan's most popular politician, is facing a 14-year prison term this month in a case his party says is being used to pressure him into silence.The former prime minister, long a source of frustration for the powerful military, has been in custody since August...
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Cuba to free 553 prisoners after removal from US terror list
HAVANA, Jan 15 (AFP): Cuba said Tuesday it would release 553 prisoners in response to an announcement from Washington that it will remove the communist country from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.The White House said earlier that President Joe Biden was removing Cuba from the list in a...
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Marburg kills eight people in Tanzania
ARUSHA, Jan 15 (AP): The World Health Organization said Wednesday an outbreak of suspected Marburg disease has killed eight people in a remote part of northern Tanzania."We are aware of 9 cases so far, including 8 people who have died," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. "We...
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