Two Turkish Police Officers Killed In Northern Syria: Minister

ANKARA, Oct 12 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Two members of the Turkish special operation forces were killed in a guided missile attack, by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) from Tel Rifat town of northern Syria, Turkey’s interior minister said. The police officers were on duty in the Mare district of…

Iran Reports 13,504 New COVID-19 Cases, 5,716,394 In Total

TEHRAN, Oct 12 (NNN-IRNA) – The Iranian health ministry reported yesterday, 13,504 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country’s total infections to 5,716,394. According to an official release, the pandemic has claimed 122,868 lives in the country so far, after 276 new deaths were registered in the past 24 hours. A…

Iraq’s Electoral Commission Announced Preliminary Results Of Parliamentary Polls

BAGHDAD, Oct 12 (NNN-NINA) – The Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), yesterday announced the preliminary results of early parliamentary elections, with the political group led by prominent Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr in the lead. Judge Jalil Adnan Khalaf, chairman of the Board of Commissioners at IHEC, announced in a…

Turkey Reports 30,563 Daily COVID-19 Cases

ANKARA, Oct 12 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey yesterday confirmed 30,563 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 7,475,115, according to its health ministry. The death toll from the virus in Turkey rose by 188 to 66,368, while 33,861 more people recovered in the last 24 hours. A total of…

S.Korea Freezes Interest Rate At 0.75 Percent

SEOUL, Oct 12 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s central bank, today froze its benchmark interest rate at 0.75 percent, on worry about the COVID-19 resurgence, that slowed the economic recovery. Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor, Lee Ju-yeol, and other monetary policy board members, decided to leave the seven-day repurchase rate unchanged…

New Zealand Reports 43 New Community Cases Of COVID-19 Delta Variant

WELLINGTON, Oct 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) – New Zealand reported 43 new Delta variant cases of COVID-19 in the community today, bringing the total number of confirmed infections in the country’s community outbreak to 1,664. Forty of the new infections were recorded in the largest city Auckland, and three cases were in…

China Issues Commemorative Stamps For COP15

KUNMING, Oct 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – China Post issued a commemorative stamp yesterday, for the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), that opened in Kunming, the capital of south-west China’s Yunnan Province. A total of seven million of these stamps,…

Earthquake In Indonesia Triggers No Tsunami

JAKARTA, Oct 12 (NNN-ANTARA) – An earthquake that hit Bitung city, in Indonesia’s eastern province of North Sulawesi, was recorded at 5.7 magnitude, triggering no tsunami, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said, yesterday. The epicentre of the shallow quake was located 122 km to the south-east of Bitung,…

Singapore Reports 2,263 New COVID-19 Cases

SINGAPORE, Oct 12 (NNN-CNA) – Singapore reported 2,263 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total tally in the country to 129,229, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a press release. Of the new cases, 1,969 were in the community, 306 were in migrant workers’ dormitories, and eight were…

Maldives Parliament Speaker Returns After Injury Recovery From Terror Attack

MALE, Oct 12 (NNN-IPS) – The Maldives’ speaker of parliament and former President, Mohamed Nasheed, has returned, after spending four months abroad, recovering from injuries sustained in a terror attack, local media reported here yesterday. According to the SunOnline news, Nasheed flew back from the United Arab Emirates, and was…