Ruling Party Tops List In Georgia Parliamentary Elections With Over 99 Percent Ballots Counted

TBILISI, Nov 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) – After 99.77 percent of the total ballots were counted, the ruling Georgian Dream party won 48.16 percent of votes, while major opposition coalition of United National Movement and the Strength is in Unity, received 27.12 percent, data from the Central Election Commission (CEC) indicated. Seven…

Lebanon Shuts Down 115 Villages, Imposes New Curfew Amid Rising COVID-19 Infections

BEIRUT, Nov 2 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanon’s Caretaker Interior Minister, Mohammad Fahmi, issued a statement on Sunday, ordering complete lockdown in 115 villages and towns in the country, along with a nationwide curfew, due to the increase in COVID-19 cases. The curfew starts from 9.00 p.m. to 5.00 a.m. local time,…

Jordan To Impose Nationwide Lockdown After Parliamentary Elections

AMMAN, Nov 2 (NNN-PETRA) – In order to curb the surge in COVID-19 cases, Jordan’s Prime Minister, Bisher Khasawneh, announced that a five-day nationwide lockdown would be imposed from Nov 11, a day after the country’s parliamentary elections. According to the Jordanian Health Ministry, Jordan registered 3,259 new cases yesterday,…

Sri Lanka Groups Slam U.S. Disinformation About Sri Lanka-China Relations

COLOMBO, Nov 2 (NNN-SLNEWS) – Sri Lanka-China friendship groups condemned U.S. disinformation about Sri Lanka-China relations, following a recent visit to the country by U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. The groups also affirmed their country’s independent foreign policy. “In the last few weeks, the U.S. and its allies had…

New Zealand Reports Four New Cases Of COVID-19

WELLINGTON, Nov 2 (NNN-XINHUA) – New Zealand reported four new cases of COVID-19 from managed isolation, and no community cases. One case is an international mariner, staying at the Sudima in Christchurch, detected at day 15 testing, as a close contact of a day-six case. The person is now in…

Music Returns To Sydney Opera House After Virus Hiatus

SYDNEY, Nov 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The Sydney Opera House reopened to audiences yesterday evening, for the first time since Mar, when it was forced to close due to the pandemic, breathing life back into the country’s struggling performing arts sector. A special Jazz performance last night, followed by a theatre…

New Zealand New Cabinet Line-Up Focuses On COVID-19 Recovery

WELLINGTON, Nov 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Experienced ministers will hold key economic recovery and ongoing COVID-19 response portfolios, in the new Cabinet line-up, announced by New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, today. “The next three years will be very challenging for New Zealand. With the global outlook worsening, we won’t be…

Three Killed, Seven People Wounded In Attacks In N. Afghanistan

KUNDUZ, Nov 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Three Afghan Border Force (ABF) members were killed and seven people wounded, in two separate attacks in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province, late yesterday. In one incident, senior ABF commander, Daud Nijrabi, and two ABF soldiers were killed and two soldiers wounded, after their vehicle was…

S.Korea Announces New 5-Tier Social-Distancing Regulations

SEOUL, Nov 2 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea, yesterday, announced a new five-tier social-distancing regulations, replacing the existing three-tier scheme, in a bid to minimise close-down of shops and restaurants that hit hard the owners of microbusinesses and ordinary people. South Korean Prime Minister, Chung Sye-kyun, said that, the government redesigned…

Another Span Of Bangladesh’s Longest Padma Bridge Installed

DHAKA, Nov 2 (NNN-BSS) – China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co, Ltd (MBEC), installed another span of Bangladesh’s largest Padma Bridge, bringing a total of 5.25 km of its main structure into view so far. About 6.15 km of the 25-metre-wide and 10-km-long bridge is being built over Padma…