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US to ease Venezuela oil, gas sanctions
AFP, Published on 19/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States will ease some oil and gas sanctions against Venezuela after the South American country's government and opposition agreed to hold elections next year.
Angolans vote for president in tightest ever race
AFP, Published on 24/08/2022
» LUANDA - Angolans started casting ballots on Wednesday in what is expected to be the most competitive vote in its democratic history, with incumbent president Joao Lourenco squaring up against charismatic opposition leader Adalberto Costa Junior.
Syrian Kurds hand IS relatives to Dutch authorities
AFP, Published on 06/06/2021
» QAMISHLI (SYRIA) - Syria's Kurds on Saturday handed four relatives of Islamic State group fighters, including three children, to Dutch diplomats for repatriation, a thorny issue for authorities in the Netherlands.
Race against time to relocate NATO's Afghan translators
AFP, Published on 03/06/2021
» LONDON - Like thousands of Afghan translators who served with NATO forces, Nazir Ahmad fears for his life as the US-led alliance scrambles to pull out of the country in the coming weeks.
Two Americans, 240 Yemen rebel backers freed in apparent swap
AFP, Published on 15/10/2020
» WASHINGTON - Two captive Americans were freed Wednesday in Yemen as more than 200 supporters of the country's Huthi rebels were allowed to return home, in an apparent swap involving Saudi Arabia and Oman.
Japan completes virus testing for quarantined ship
AFP, Published on 18/02/2020
» TOKYO: All passengers and crew on board a ship quarantined off Japan have now been tested for the new coronavirus, the government said Tuesday, as more countries moved to evacuate citizens from the boat.
Jailed Myanmar Reuters reporters file appeal
AFP, Published on 05/11/2018
» YANGON - Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists filed an appeal Monday against their seven-year jail sentence linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, the news agency said.
Suu Kyi defends jailing of Reuters reporters
AFP, Published on 14/09/2018
» HANOI: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday robustly defended the jailing of two Reuters journalists for reporting massacres by the military at the height of the Rohingya ethnic cleansing. She received quick global criticism for it.
Kim Jong Un asks second Trump meeting
AFP, Published on 11/09/2018
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has received a "very positive" letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seeking a follow-up meeting after their historic summit in Singapore, the White House said Monday.
Remains of US Korean War dead on way home
AFP, Published on 01/08/2018
» OSAN, South Korea: The remains of US servicemen killed in North Korea decades ago left for home Wednesday after a solemn ceremony at an American military base in South Korea.