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New Delhi/Kabul, Oct 2 (EFE).- The Afghan Embassy in India has announced the cessation of its operations in New Delhi, noting the lack of resources and support from the government of India. The embassy in the Indian capital had for more than two years been functioning independently despite the fall...
Islamabad, Oct 1 (EFE).- The death toll in the recent suicide bombings at two mosques in Pakistan rose to 60 on Sunday, officials told EFE, meanwhile government officials have publicly accused Indian agencies of carrying out terrorist activities in the country. «The death toll has reached 60 and more than...
Baku, Oct 1 (EFE).- A United Nations mission arrived Sunday in Nagorno-Karabakh to assess the humanitarian situation in the region, Azerbaijan president’s office told EFE. More than 100,000 of the 120,000 inhabitants of Nagorno-Karabakh have fled to Armenia in the last one week, The mission arrived in six white off-road...
New Delhi, Sep 30 (EFE).- Maldivian opposition Mohamed Muizzu was to become the Maldives’ new president after surpassing outgoing President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih at the polls, a triumph representing a great change for the country’s political panorama. “I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the people of...
New York, Sep 30 (EFE).- The United States on Saturday faces the possibility of a shutdown of the federal government, which comes at a delicate moment for the world’s biggest economy. The government shutdown has become almost an annual affair given the divide between Republicans and Democrats in the different...
Moscow, Sep 29 (EFE).- The Taliban government, on Friday during a summit in Russia, called on regional countries to refrain from proposing alternative governance models for Afghanistan and instead support the current administration in rebuilding the war-ravaged country. “We hope that our neighbors will refrain from proposing governance models, and...
Moscow, Sep 29 (EFE).- Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Andrei Troshev, the former chief of staff of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), to organize and lead volunteer combat units in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday. “Last time we met, we discussed that you would focus on creating...
Tokyo, Sep 29 (EFE).- Tokyo has recorded temperatures above 30 degrees for 90 days in 2023 so far, marking the highest number of such days ever recorded for a year, Japanese weather authorities said Friday. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said that unusually high temperatures for this time of the...
Islamabad, Sep 29 (EFE).- At least 52 people were killed and over 50 wounded on Friday in a suicide bombing during a religious procession at a mosque in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, authorities told EFE. “The death toll has reached 52 with more than 50 have been injured, said Mohammad...
Quito, Sept 28 (EFE). – The defense of Ecuadorian Nelson Serrano, the oldest prisoner on death row in the United States, reported Thursday that he has allegedly received death threats inside Florida’s Union Correctional Institution. Attorney Óscar Vela said Serrano, 84, told his son that he was moved from a...
New Delhi, Sep 28 (EFE).- Indian agronomist Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, known for developing techniques that ended the famine in India six decades ago and helped turn the nation into a wheat powerhouse, died Thursday at age 98 due to age-related conditions. The eminent scientist and humanist passed away at his...
Beijing, Sep 28 (EFE).- The Chinese government on Thursday said that communication channels between Chinese and US militaries remained “open,” urging Washington to take concrete steps to bring the inter-military relations back on the right track. «We have pointed out many times that military exchanges between China and the United...
