SEOUL, Oct 21, (APP/AFP) – South Korean activists floated hundreds of thousands of leaflets across the border into North Korea on Friday, protesting Pyongyang’s recent missile testing efforts in defiance of UN sanctions. “We launched the leaflets to protest against these provocative acts,” North Korean defector-turned-activist Park Sang-Hak told AFP. A total of 300,000 leaflets […]
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S. Korea activists leaflet North after missile tests
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Pakistan neither wants, nor engaged in arms race in South Asia: Tehmina Janjua
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 21 (APP): In an obvious reference to India, Pakistan has voiced concern over the growing transfers of conventional armaments in volatile regions, saying it has every potential of fueling instability and jeopardizing the delicate regional balance. “South Asia is a sensitive region where one state’s military spending grossly and vastly out-shadows all […]
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Ambassador Lodhi meets new UN chief Antonio Guterres
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 21 (APP): Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Maleeha Lodhi, briefed UN Secretary-General-designate Antonio Guterres on the situation in South Asia and Afghanistan when she called on him on Wednesday, according to informed sources. In her first meeting with Guterres after the General Assembly unanimously elected him as the new UN chief […]
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UN calls for protecting civilians as fighting continues in Rakhine
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 20 (APP): An atmosphere of fear and tension continues to grip the Muslim population in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine province even though fighting between security forces and a group, identified by the government as the Aqa mul moujahideen, has seen some reduction in severity, a spokesperson for the United Nations said Wednesday. “While […]
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Hungarian police arrest Budapest bombing suspect
BUDAPEST, Oct 20, (APP/AFP) – A Hungarian man has been arrested on suspicion of detonating a bomb in Budapest last month which seriously injured two police officers, authorities said Thursday. The man was detained for alleged premeditated attempted murder as well as misuse of explosive materials, said senior prosecutor Imre Keresztes. “It was a brutal […]
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UN hopes Aleppo medical evacuations will happen Friday
GENEVA, Oct 20, (APP/AFP): The United Nations said it hopes to carry out the first medical evacuations from eastern Aleppo on Friday after it got clearance from all warring parties in the devastated Syrian city. “We believe we now have all of the green lights that we need,” the head of the UN’s humanitarian taskforce […]