Japan To Allow More Airports To Accept Entrants From Abroad

TOKYO, Jun 1 (NNN-NHK) – Japan plans to let more regional airports to accept entrants from abroad, Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, said yesterday, amid the country’s gradual relaxation of strict border measures, implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We will enable regional airports, such as Sendai (in north-eastern…

Bangladesh To Start Week-Long Campaign To Expedite COVID-19 Vaccination With Booster Doses

DHAKA, Jun 1 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladesh will conduct a week-long special campaign from Jun 4, to expedite inoculation with COVID-19 booster doses. People aged 18 and above, who have received their second dose of COVID-19 vaccines, at least four months earlier, will be allowed to receive a booster jab during…

Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force Seizes 3,749 Kg Drugs, Arrests 82 In May

ISLAMABAD, Jun 1 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan’s Anti Narcotics Force (ANF), said yesterday that, its personnel have seized 3,749 kg drugs and arrested 82 people in May. The ANF said in a statement that, 98 counter-narcotics operations were conducted in May, in different areas of the country, adding, the arrested people…

Wheat Smuggling Bid Foiled In S. Afghanistan

KABUL, May 31 (NNN-ANA) – Afghanistan’s security forces, seized 50 trucks loaded with wheat, in the country’s southern province of Helmand, foiling a smuggling bid, the local government confirmed today. The seizure took place along the Kandahar-Herat highway, in Washer district in the province, 555 km in the south of…

Nepali Ruling Party Wins Most In Local Elections

KATHMANDU, May 31 (NNN-XINHUA) – The ruling Nepali Congress has emerged as the biggest winner in the recently-held local elections, as the vote count was completed yesterday. The Nepali Congress, led by Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, which contested the polls, held on May 13, by forming an electoral alliance…

Destructive Winds Trigger Power Outages Across Aussie State

SYDNEY, May 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A powerful cold front, descending on south-eastern Australia brought damaging winds and rain, which led to thousands of power outages and a sudden drop in temperature, in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). Winds between 90 and 100 km an hour, lashed much…

S.Korea Reports 17,191 New COVID-19 Cases

SEOUL, May 31 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea reported 17,191 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight, compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 18,103,638, the health authorities said today. The daily caseload was up from 6,139 the previous day, but it was lower than 26,341 tallied…

Five Killed, Over 13 Injured As Passenger Bus Overturns In S. Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, May 31 (NNN-APP) – At least five people were killed and over 13 others injured, after a passenger bus turned turtle on a motorway, near Ghotki district of Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, local media reported this morning. The motorway police told local media that, all the victims were shifted…

Last Body Found At Crash Site Of Nepali Plane

KATHMANDU, May 31 (NNN-XINHUA) – With the last dead body found this morning, all the 22 bodies left by a crashed Nepali passenger plane have been recovered, the Nepal Army said. “Last dead body has been recovered. Arranging to bring remaining 12 dead bodies from crash site to Kathmandu,” tweeted…

U.S. Mass Shootings Have A Lot In Common With Public Lynching: CNN

NEW YORK, May 31 (NNN-XINHUA) – Public lynchings of racial barbarity have not been relegated to the U.S. past, but are links in an unbroken chain of hate that continue, as recently manifested by the shooter, who identified himself as a White supremacist, and mowed down 10 Black people this…