Russian Submarine Passes Through Turkey’s Strait To Black Sea: Media

ISTANBUL, Feb 14 (NNN-ANADOLU) – A Russian Navy Kilo-class submarine, passed through Turkey’s Bosphorus strait yesterday, en route to the Black Sea, local media reported. The Kilo-class Rostov-Na-Donu submarine, entered the 30-km-long strait from Turkey’s inland Sea of Marmara, and headed to the Black Sea, according to the Sozcu daily.…

Mumbai To Hold 17th International Film Festival

MUMBAI, Feb 14 (NNN-PTI) – India’s financial capital, Mumbai, will hold the 17th international film festival for documentary, short fiction and animation, from May 29 to June 4, the state-owned Press Information Bureau said, yesterday. The online entry will open from tomorrow, Feb 15 to Mar 15, and filmmakers, who…

Bangladesh To Reopen Schools As COVID-19 Situation Improves

DHAKA, Feb 14 (NNN-BSS) – Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, said yesterday that, educational institutions will reopen at the end of Feb, as the COVID-19 situation is expected to improve in the country. Speaking virtually at a function, at the International Mother Language Institute, Hasina said, students were deprived of…

Clashes Erupt Between Palestinians, Jewish Settlers In E. Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, Feb 14 (NNN-WAFA) – Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli settlers broke out in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood early yesterday, after an Israeli lawmaker reopened his office in the neighbourhood. Israeli police said, six Palestinians had been arrested amid the clashes. The police said, the “riots,” injured “several” people,…

Iraqi Court Excludes Zebari From Running For President

BAGHDAD, Feb 14 (NNN-NINA) – The Iraqi Federal Supreme Court, decided yesterday, to cancel Hoshyar Zebari’s presidential candidacy, a week after suspending his nomination, over a corruption lawsuit against him. A statement by the court said, it decided to cancel Zebari’s candidacy for the presidency of the republic for not…

Ex-President Karzai Urges Washington To Return Afghanistan’s Assets

KABUL, Feb 14 (NNN-ANA) – Afghanistan’s former president, Hamid Karzai, yesterday urged the U.S. administration to return his country’s assets. “Holding Afghanistan’s money on any name is unfair and unjust. That money belongs to the people of Afghanistan … I am calling on President Joe Biden to return the money…

India To Participate In Singapore Air Show-2022

NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (NNN-PTI) – India’s indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA), will be showcased at the “Singapore Air Show-2022,” to be held from Feb 15 to 18, said an official statement, issued by the Ministry of Defence, yesterday. A 44-member contingent of Indian Air Force (IAF) has reached Changi…

DPRK Kicks Off New 10,000-Home Construction Project In Pyongyang

PYONGYANG, Feb 13 (NNN-KCNA) – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), started here yesterday, a new project of building 10,000 flats, it was reported today. Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the DPRK, said at the groundbreaking ceremony that, the construction of 10,000 flats, in the Hwasong area,…

Beach Ritual Accident Leaves 11 Drowned In Sea In Indonesia

JAKARTA, Feb 13 (NNN-ANTARA) – Eleven people were killed, after being swept away by tidal waves into the sea, from the southern coast of Indonesia’s East Java province, early this morning, said a local disaster management official. The accident occurred at about 00:25 a.m. local time, when 23 people were…

Brazil Registers 140,234 New COVID-19 Cases

SAO PAULO, Feb 13 (NNN-CMA) – Brazil registered 140,234 COVID-19 infections and 896 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing its nationwide counts to 27,425,743 and 638,048, respectively, the National Council of Health Secretaries, said yesterday. The national seven-day moving average of deaths reached 892, while that of daily infections…