Around 100 Criminal Suspects Detained In Afghanistan’s Kabul

KABUL, Dec 29 (NNN-ANA) – Police nabbed around 100 people, on involvement in criminal activities, over the past one week, in Afghan capital, Kabul, spokesman for Kabul police, Mubin Khan, said yesterday. All the arrested men, according to the official, had been involved in criminal activities, ranging from armed robbery…

Lebanese PM Calls For National Dialogue To Restore Ties With Gulf Countries

BEIRUT, Dec 29 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, yesterday called for a national dialogue among the different governing political parties, to discuss Lebanon’s ties with Gulf countries. “We need to reach an understanding to strengthen Lebanon’s ties with Arab nations, especially Gulf countries, by not offending them or…

Argentina Registers 20,263 New Daily COVID-19 Cases, 31 More Deaths

BUENOS AIRES, Dec 28 (NNN-TELAM) – Argentina reported 20,263 new cases of COVID-19 and 31 more deaths related to the disease in the past 24 hours, the country’s health ministry said yesterday. The daily cases was the highest in five months, only slightly lower than the previous record of 21,590…

Death Toll Rises To 20 From Heavy Rains In Brazil

BRASILIA, Dec 28 (NNN-CMA) – The death toll from heavy rains lashing the north-eastern Brazilian state of Bahia, rose to 20, with 358 people injured, according to a news report, released by the state’s civil defence authorities. The total number of people affected rose to 470,000, according to data from…

Turkey, Armenia Envoys To Hold First Meeting In Moscow: Turkish FM

ANKARA, Dec 28 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkish and Armenian special representatives will hold their first meeting in Moscow, the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said yesterday. “The first meeting will be in Moscow,” Cavusoglu told reporters that, the representatives will discuss a road map for the normalisation of bilateral ties. When…

Egypt, Palestine, Jordan Discuss Ways To Revive Mideast Peace Process

CAIRO, Dec 28 (NNN-MENA) – Senior officials from Egypt, Jordan and Palestine, discussed yesterday, a number of proposals aimed at breaking the deadlock in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. During a meeting in Cairo, the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan, the Palestinian minister of civil affairs, and heads of the…

Sudan Requires Investigation Into Rape Allegations Against Female Demonstrators

KHARTOUM, Dec 28 (NNN-SUNA) – Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council, asked concerned authorities to investigate rape allegations against female protesters, on Dec 19. During a regular meeting for the Transitional Sovereign Council, held at the Republican Palace in Khartoum and chaired by the council’s Chairman, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, the council directed…

German Insurers To Pay For Record Losses From Natural Disasters In 2021

BERLIN, Dec 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Insurers in Germany had never before paid for such high losses as in 2021, since the 1970s, caused by the devastating flood in July, and the hailstorm in early summer, the German Insurance Association (GDV) said yesterday. With insured losses to houses, household goods, businesses…

U.S. Farming, Profits From “Modern-Day Slavery”: The Guardian

LONDON, Dec 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – Findings from a multi-year investigation, have exposed a longstanding issue of “modern-day slavery” in the U.S. agricultural industry, as people were smuggled from Central American countries to the United States, and imprisoned as contracted farmworkers, The Guardian reported. The investigation, which was launched into a…

China-Invested Ferronickel Smelter Put Into Production In Indonesia

JAKARTA, Dec 28 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, attended, yesterday, the ceremony to mark a ferronickel smelter plant, invested by a Chinese company, starting production in Morowali Utara county, Central Sulawesi province. The smelter, PT Gunbuster Nickel Industry, located at the PT Virtue Dragon Nickel Industry park, can produce…