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Chinese and US flags flutter outside a company building in Shanghai, China April 14, 2021. — Reuters Published in Dawn on June 11th, 2021, BEIJING: China on Thursday passed a new law to counter foreign sanctions, as it looks to …

Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen [File: Alexander Zemlianichenko/Reuters] Published in AlJazeera on June 11th, 2021, Turkey should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan under the 2020 deal for the pullout of foreign forces, a Taliban spokesman has said, effectively rejecting Ankara’s proposal …

Published in The Nation on June 10th, 2021, Xinhua The lab-leak theory that the COVID-19 virus escaped from a Chinese laboratory is “extremely unlikely,” a renowned German virologist has told Swiss digital magazine Republik. Asked about the origins of the …

Published in AlJazeera on June 09th, 2021, Effort to revive landmark pact blocking Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons in return for lifting US sanctions. Negotiations between Iran and world powers on how to revive the 2015 nuclear accord will resume …

Published in BBC News on June 09th, 2021, The number of undocumented migrants reaching the US-Mexico border has hit the highest level in more than 20 years in the latest sign of the humanitarian crisis facing the Biden administration. US …

Moscow helped secure a ceasefire in November that ended a six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region [File: Aziz Karimov/Reuters]   Published in AlJazeera on May 20th, 2021, Move by Moscow comes after Armenia accused Azerbaijan of …

  Published in The Nation on May 20th, 2021, The Holmegaard centre on the island of Langeland, located some 20 kilometres from the nearest town of over 1,000 residents, will be ready within a year. Taking a page from the …

The USS Curtis Wilbur during ‘freedom of navigation’ operations in the South China Sea on May 20 [Courtesy of US Navy 7th Fleet]   Published in AlJazeera on May 20th, 2021, Beijing accuses US of entering its waters around islands …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a briefing to ambassadors to Israel at a military base in Tel Aviv on May 19. — Reuters   Published in Dawn News on May 20th, 2021, GAZA CITY: While US President …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have cooperated closely on conflicts in Syria, Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh in recent years [File: Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via Reuters] Published in AlJazeera on May 24th, 2021, ‘Stop fuelling Kyiv’s …

Relatives in personal protective equipment (PPE) suits stand near the body of a person who died due to the COVID-19 coronavirus, at a cremation ground in New Delhi in India on Thursday [Prakash Singh/AFP] Published in AlJazeera News on May …

Published in The Nation on May 07th, 2021, Agencies Kiev   –  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday pressed Russia to pull troops and end its “aggressive” actions in Ukraine on a visit to Kiev in which he vowed …