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Washington, Aug 31 (UNI) US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul applauded the Biden administration announcing aid for Taiwan that for the first time ever will come through Foreign Military Financing (FMF), a program usually reserved for sovereign states or international organizations. “I am glad the administration is further implementing our bipartisan Taiwan Enhanced…

United Nations, (UNI) The Gabonese Mission to the United Nations is continuing its work in context of Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba house arrest, a UN source said on Wednesday. “The mission is working normally,” the source told Sputnik. Earlier today, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow is concerned with the situation in Gabon…

Moscow, (UNI) The Swiss government announced Wednesday that it would contribute to the Register of Damage launched by the Council of Europe, Europe’s top human rights body, to document alleged loss caused by Russia. “At its meeting on 30 August 2023, the Federal Council decided that Switzerland will join this Register of Damage,” the Federal…

St Petersburg, (UNI) The Pskov airport will remain closed until the end of the investigation launched after the overnight drone attack, it may resume operations on August 31, Pskov Region Governor Mikhail Vedernikov said on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Vedernikov said that the Russian Defense Ministry was repelling an overnight drone attack on the…

Manila, Aug 31 (UNI) Fifteen people were killed in a fire that gutted a house in the Philippine capital region before dawn on Thursday, the Bureau of Fire Protection of the Philippine government said. The bureau said three others survived the fire that broke out at around 5:30 a.m. local time, which firefighters put out…

Kabul, Aug 30 (UNI) A total of 75 Afghan inmates imprisoned in Pakistan have been set free and returned to their homeland Afghanistan through the Torkham border on Tuesday, the state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported on Wednesday. So far, Pakistan has handed over around 2,516 Afghans jailed in Pakistani prisons to Afghan authorities through the…

Baghdad, Aug 30 (UNI) Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani extended on Tuesday condolences to French President Emmanuel Macron over the death of a French soldier, who was killed during a joint military operation between Iraqi and French forces against the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq. According to an official statement from al-Sudani’s media…

Damascus, Aug 30 (UNI) Deadly infighting broke out between two United States-backed militias in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zour, killing 18 people and injuring 15 others, a war monitor reported on Tuesday. On Monday, clashes erupted in Deir al-Zour between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Deir al-Zour Military Council, an Arab-majority…

Canberra, Aug 30 (UNI) The remains of three U.S. Marines killed in a helicopter crash on an island off Australia’s north coast have been recovered. The U.S. Marine Rotational Force Darwin (MRF-D) said in a statement on Tuesday night that the bodies of the three Marines have been transported to Darwin, the capital of Australia’s…

Islamabad, Aug 29 (UNI) The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday suspended former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s conviction and three-year sentence in the Toshakhana case. The much-anticipated order was announced by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahan­giri on the former prime minister’s appeal against his prison term,…