Cuba To Administer COVID-19 Booster Shots Next Month

HAVANA, Oct 14 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Cuba will start administering booster shots with its homegrown COVID-19 vaccines next month, Cuban Health Minister, Jose Angel Portal, said at a press conference. “In the very beginning, we will administer booster shots to vulnerable groups and frontline workers, including doctors, nurses, scientists, and…

Israeli FM calls for peace with Palestinians, more Arab nations

JERUSALEM, Oct 12 (NNN-PNN) – Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, yesterday called the Palestinians and other Arab nations to forge peace agreements with Israel. Lapid called more Arab countries to join the U.S.-brokered deals, signed in Sept, 2020, in which the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain agreed to normalise…

Scores Of Houthi Rebels Killed In Fighting Over Yemen’s Marib

ADEN, Oct 12 (NNN-YPA) – Scores of Houthi rebels were killed, during their military attacks to seize key areas in the country’s northern oil-rich province of Marib, yesterday, a government official said. “Several simultaneous Houthi attacks targeted Marib’s key district of Abdiya, that’s besieged for nearly three weeks, sparking non-stop…

Nuclear Talks Must Lead To Lifting Of Sanctions: Iran’s Parliament Speaker

TEHRAN, Oct 12 (NNN-IRNA) – The speaker of Iran’s parliament said here yesterday that, any dialogue regarding the 2015 nuclear agreement must lead to the lifting of the sanctions against Iran. “The United States withdrew from the agreement during the Trump era, and it was surprising that the world did…

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…