ShareBy Aluta News March 9, 2023 Pakistani government has raised sales tax on some imported luxury items to 25 per cent. According to the country’s Federal Board of Revenue, the new tax comes into effect on Thursday. Experts said the decision might have been taken in response to the promptingsContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 24, 2023 Nigeria and 140 Member States on Thursday demanded Russia to immediately and unconditionally withdraw its troops from Ukraine, marking the one-year anniversary of the war with a call for a “just and lasting” peace. The UN correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 23, 2023 Russia has accused Kiev of planning to invade Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria which borders Ukraine, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Thursday citing the Defence Ministry. According to the report, the ministry said Kiev was planning to carry out an armed operationContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 22, 2023 UN-appointed independent rights experts, on Wednesday condemned missile strikes targeting the eastern city of Kharkiv, decrying the deliberate destruction of the country’s cultural treasures by Russian forces to stop. According to humanitarian workers, at least six people were killed on Tuesday after Russian missilesContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 21, 2023 At least five people died in Syria after the latest earthquakes shook the Turkish-Syrian border region, activists said on Tuesday morning. Two earthquakes, three minutes apart and measuring 6.4 and 5.8 in magnitude, shook southern Turkey on Monday evening, according to Turkey’s disaster managementContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 19, 2023 The Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Amb. Lot Egopija, has said that 400 Nigerian passports remained uncollected at the Consulate, urging the applicants to come forward and claim them. Egopija disclosed this at the virtual 8th Town Hall Meeting with the NigerianContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 7, 2023 UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths on Tuesday said nearly eight million people have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict almost a year ago. According to Griffiths, almost eight million people fled from Ukraine to neighbouring countries, while another 5.3 million areContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Feb. 6, 2023 UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday expressed sadness over the passing of the former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf. Musharraf died in Dubai after a prolonged illness at Dubai American Hospital, according to a statement from the Pakistani military. He was 79 years old.Continue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 30, 2033 China’s Foreign Ministry sought to blame the United States for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, claiming Washington created the conditions that led to the war. Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, told reporters on Monday. The spokesperson also condemned the weapons deliveries forContinue Reading
ShareBy Aluta News Jan. 30, 2023 Officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Monday said that security measures had been increased ahead of Pope Francis’ visit to the country’s capital, Kinshasa. Several districts of Kinshasa have been cordoned off to protect the pontiff and his papal delegation duringContinue Reading
