China Starts Shipping Tracks For Indonesia’s High-Speed Railway

NANNING, Nov 30 (NNN-XINHUA) – A southern Chinese port, shipped the first batch of made-in-China steel tracks, to be used in Indonesia’s Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway (HSR). China Railway Nanning Group said, the track bars were loaded onto a ship in Fangchenggang, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, after arriving on trains from…

Yemen’s Houthi Rebels Launch Rocket At Gov’t Military Camp

SANAA, Nov 30 (NNN-SABA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels said that, they fired a rocket towards a government military training camp, in neighbouring province of Marib last night, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported. “The rocket targeted the operations room in the Tadawin camp, in northern Marib, killing at least eight soldiers…

Russia’s COVID-19 Cases Up 26,683 To 2,269,316

MOSCOW, Nov 30 (NNN-TASS) – Russia registered 26,683 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking its national total to 2,269,316, the country’s COVID-19 response centre said in a statement yesterday. Meanwhile, 459 new deaths were reported, taking the nationwide count to 39,527. Moscow, the country’s worst-hit region, reported…

Indonesia Reported 6,267 Newly-Confirmed COVID-19 Cases, 169 New Deaths

JAKARTA, Nov 30 (NNN-ANTARA) – The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 6,267 within one day, to 534,266, with the death toll adding by 169 to 16,815, the Health Ministry said yesterday. According to the ministry, 3,810 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients…

Update: At Least 30 Killed, 24 Wounded In Suicide Car Bomb Explosion In E. Afghanistan

GHAZNI, Nov 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) – At least 30 military personnel were killed and 24 others wounded, after a suicide car bomb hit a military camp in Ghazni, capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province, yesterday. “Some 30 killed and 24 wounded were admitted at main civil hospital in Ghazni, following an…

Iraq Reports 1,614 New COVID-19 Cases As Total Infections Exceed 550,000

BAGHDAD, Nov 30 (NNN-NINA) – The Iraqi Health Ministry reported 1,614 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the nationwide infections to 550,435. It also reported 24 new deaths and 2,366 more recovered cases, raising the death toll from the infectious virus to 12,224, and the total recoveries to 480,903. The ministry also…

Clashes Between Gov’t Forces, Separatists Break Out In Southern Yemen, 16 Killed

ADEN, Yemen, Nov 29 (NNN-SABA) – Intense armed confrontations broke out between government forces and military units of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan. “Fighting began between government forces and the STC’s military units overnight and continued throughout the day, amid exchange of intense artillery…

Palestine Warns Against Israeli Plan To Legalise “Illegal” Settlement Outposts

RAMALLAH, Nov 29 (NNN-WAFA) – The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), warned against the Israeli government’s plan, to legalise dozens of “illegal settlement outposts” built in the West Bank. In an official report sent to the press, the PLO’s National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements noted that, Israel aims…

Yemen Launches Door-To-Door Polio Immunisation For Over Four Million Children

SANAA, Nov 29 (NNN-SABA) – Yemen’s health authorities, yesterday launched a polio vaccination campaign, for more than four million children, in the north of the country. The three-day campaign is supported by the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and other international aid agencies, local health authorities said. The door-to-door immunisation…

Daesh Militants Kill Two Villagers, Policeman In Iraq

BAGHDAD, Nov 29 (NNN-NINA) – The extremist Daesh militant group, yesterday killed two villagers and a policeman, in two attacks in the provinces of Salahudin and Anbar, a police source and a local official said. In Salahudin province, the militants kidnapped, at noon, two villagers from their farm, near the…