Humanitarians Reach Eight Million Afghans In Three Months: UN

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Humanitarian partners reached eight million Afghans with food assistance, 150,000 people with relief items, and 130,000 children with community-based educational activities, in the three-month period of Sept through Nov, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, yesterday. In the period, more than…

Saudi To Invest Five Billion USD In Development Projects In Bahrain: Official Statement

MANAMA, Dec 10 (NNN-BNA) – Bahrain and Saudi Arabia yesterday signed key agreements, involving a Saudi investment of five billion U.S. dollars in development projects across Bahrain, according to an official statement. The agreements came, during the second meeting of the Saudi-Bahraini Coordination Council, in Bahrain’s Sakhir Palace, co-chaired by…

Israeli FM, Egyptian President Meet In Cairo To Strengthen Ties

JERUSALEM, Dec 10 (NNN-PNN) – Israel’s Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, yesterday made an official visit to Egypt, to meet the country’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, in a bid to strengthen bilateral ties. “Strengthening Israel-Egypt relations is a very important interest of Israel,” Lapid said. Lapid’s one-day visit also includes a meeting…

Afghanistan Receives Batch Of China-Donated Sinopharm Vaccines

KABUL, Dec 10 (NNN-XINHUA) – A batch of COVID-19 vaccines, donated by the Chinese government, arrived in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Wednesday. A handover ceremony was held at Kabul international airport, attended by Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan, Wang Yu, and deputy minister of Afghanistan’s Public Health Ministry, Abdul…

Water Supplying Network Inaugurated In Afghanistan’s Logar Province

PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan, Dec 9 (NNN-ANA) – Construction of a water supplying network has been completed and inaugurated in Pul-e-Alam city, the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province, the state-run news agency, Bakhtar reported. Completed at a cost of five million afghani (48,000 U.S. dollars) with the support of the United…

Tension Grips Yemen’s Oil-Rich Shabwa Amid Large Demonstrations

ADEN, Dec 9 (NNN-YPA) – Tension continued to escalate yesterday, as large Yemeni demonstrations were staged, across the oil-rich southern province of Shabwa, a security official said. “A number of demonstrations staged by local people, to condemn the skyrocketing prices and rampant corruption were oppressed, causing tension in Shabwa,” the…

20 Sentenced To Death In Bangladesh’s Sensational Student Murder

DHAKA, Dec 9 (NNN-BSS) – A court in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, yesterday handed down death sentences to 20 people, accused in a sensational student murder case. Judge Abu Zafar Md Kamruzzaman of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1, ordered the death penalty for 20, and jailed five others to life imprisonment,…

Indonesia Withdraws From BWF Tournament In Spain

JAKARTA, Dec 9 (NNN-ANTARA) – The Indonesian Badminton Association (PBSI), has withdrawn its participation from the BWF Championship 2021, for fear of the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, an official said yesterday. The badminton tournament is scheduled to take place in Huelva, Spain, from Dec12-19. PBSI’s Executive Chairman, Alex…

6.0-Magnitude Quake Strikes Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture, No Tsunami Warning Issued

TOKYO, Dec 9 (NNN-NHK) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0, today struck Japan’s Kagoshima Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The temblor occurred at around 11:05 a.m. local time, with its epicentre at a latitude of 29.4 degrees north and a longitude of 129.4 degrees east, and…

Philippine Columnist Slams “Summit For Democracy” As Pure Hypocrisy

MANILA, Dec 9 (NNN-PNA) – The U.S. proposed “summit for democracy,” scheduled to be hosted virtually today and tomorrow, is pure hypocrisy, a Philippine columnist, said. Mauro Gia Samonte, a columnist for the English daily, The Manila Times, said, the summit is U.S.’s “furtive effort to draw the line between…