Uzbekistan Introduces Visa Free Regime For Tourists From China, Arab Countries

TASHKENT, Feb 10 (NNN-CAN) – Uzbekistan will introduce a ten-day visa free regime for tourists from China, including its special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao, as well as, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman, starting from Mar 1, a presidential decree said, yesterday. According to the document, to be…

Pakistani FM Apprises Chilean Counterpart Of Rescue Operation For Missing Mountaineer

ISLAMABAD, Feb 10 (NNN-APP) – Pakistani Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, held a telephone conversation with his Chilean counterpart, Andres Allamand regarding a missing Chilean mountaineer who attempted to scale the world’s second-highest peak K2, in winter. Chilean mountaineer, Juan Pablo Mohr, was attempting to scale K2 with Pakistan’s renowned…

Indonesia Reports 8,700 Newly-Confirmed COVID-19 Cases, 213 New Deaths

JAKARTA, Feb 10 (NNN-ANTARA) – The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 8,700 within one day, to 1,174,779, with the death toll adding by 213 to 31,976, the Health Ministry said last night. According to the ministry, 10,424 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered…

Afghan Forces Exert Pressure On Militants In Nangarhar Killing Scores In Days

JALALABAD, Feb 10 (NNN-XINHUA) – Scores of militants were killed over the past five days, in eastern Nangarhar province, as the Afghan security forces stepped up the crackdown on them, an army commander in the province said. According to General Karim Niazi, 22 militants were killed and 11 others injured,…

Indonesia To Be Lower-Middle-Income Country Due To Pandemic: Minister

JAKARTA, Feb 10 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia was projected to be a lower-middle-income country, as its economic growth in 2020 contracted by 2.07 percent, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a minister said. Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and gross national income (GNI) per capita, experienced a decline in 2020,…

Protests Continue In Myanmar Despite Ban On Gatherings

YANGON, Feb 9 (NNN-XINHUA) – Protests continued to be held in Yangon and other cities in Myanmar today, despite a ban on gatherings in certain townships, which was announced earlier. Gatherings of five or more persons in public areas are banned in some townships of regions and states, under Section…

Four Killed As Unknown Armed Men Open Fire On Car In Afghan Capital

KABUL, Feb 9 (NNN-XINHUA) – Four people were killed, as unknown armed men sprayed bullets, on a car of government employees in Afghan capital Kabul today, police spokesman, Ferdaus Faramarz, said. According to the official, the unidentified men opened fire on a car, in Bagh-e-Daud area of Police District 5,…

Taliban Key Commander Among Six Killed In N. Afghanistan

MAIMANA, Feb 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Six militants, including a Taliban key commander, have been confirmed dead, as government forces, backed by fighting planes struck a Taliban hideout in Qaisar district of Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province today, the national army, said. The crackdown, according to the statement, was launched in the…

“Lucky” Koala Rescued From South Australian Freeway Amid Traffic Chaos

CANBERRA, Feb 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A “lucky” koala has been rescued after a dash across a South Australian freeway caused a six-car collision. South Australia police confirmed that the pileup was caused, when a car stopped on Adelaide’s South Eastern Freeway, to try and rescue a koala on the road,…

Six Killed, 11 Injured In Vehicle Collision In India’s Uttar Pradesh

NEW DELHI, Feb 9 (NNN-PTI) – Six people were killed and 11 others injured, with some of them in critical condition, after a passenger vehicle collided head-on with a truck today, in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, police said. The accident took place in Jaunpur district, about 228 km…