Southeast Asia To Be Increasingly Important In China’s “International Circulation”: Singapore Deputy PM

SINGAPORE, Sept 16 (NNN-CNA) – Southeast Asia will be an increasingly important part of China’s “international circulation,” Singapore Deputy Prime Minister, Heng Swee Keat, said, while addressing a virtual forum. He made the remarks while referring to China’s new economic development pattern of “dual circulation” of “domestic circulation” and “international…

Japan’s Suga Fills Key LDP Executive Posts With Veteran Lawmakers, Cabinet Takes Shape

TOKYO, Sept 16 (NNN-NHK) – Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s presumptive prime minister, following his landslide win in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s presidential vote a day earlier, yesterday picked veteran lawmakers to assume top posts in the party’s new executive lineup, while his Cabinet is also taking shape before being officially…

Spotlight: Turkey’s Youth Struggle For Jobs Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

ANKARA, Sept 16 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Selim Altun has been looking for a job for over a year, as the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic has made things worse for Turkey’s economy and the declining laboUr market, reducing the possibility for him to find long-term employment. The 21-year-old young man failed…

Indonesia Reports 3,507 Newly-Confirmed COVID-19 Cases, 124 New Deaths

JAKARTA, Sept 16 (NNN-ANTARA) – The COVID-19 cases in Indonesia rose by 3,507 within one day, to 225,030, with the death toll adding by 124 to 8,965, the health ministry said yesterday. According to the ministry, 2,660 more people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the total number of recovered patients…

Morocco Reports 1,517 New COVID-19 Cases, 88,203 In Total

RABAT, Sept 15 (NNN-MAP) – Morocco reported 1,517 new COVID-19 cases and 36 deaths on Monday, raising the tally of infections to 88,203 and the death toll to 1,614. The total number of recoveries increased to 68,970, after 1,442 new ones were added, said the Ministry of Health in a…

Car Bomb Explosion Kills Seven In Syria’s Aleppo

DAMASCUS, Sept 15 (NNN-SANA) – At least seven people were killed and 30 others wounded on Monday, when a car bomb went off in a rebel-held city in the Syrian northern province of Aleppo, a war monitor reported. The car exploded in the Ashrafiyeh neighbourhood in the centre of the…

777 New COVID-19 Cases Reported In UAE, 80,266 In Total

DUBAI, Sept 15 (NNN-WAM) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday, announced 777 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 80,266. 530 more patients have recovered, taking the tally of recoveries in the UAE to 69,981, UAE’s Ministry of Health and Prevention said. It…

Israel Reports Highest 4,764 Daily COVID-19 Cases, 160,368 In Total

JERUSALEM, Sept 15 (NNN-MA’AN) – Israel’s Ministry of Health reported 4,764 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total infections in the country to 160,368. It is the highest daily rise since the outbreak of the pandemic in Israel in late Feb, as the previous record was 4,429 registered on…

Iran Rebuts Report On Its Alleged Plot To Kill U.S. Ambassador

TEHRAN, Sept 15 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry, on Monday, lambasted an American press report about an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the U.S. ambassador to South Africa, in revenge for the killing of top Iranian commander, Qasem Soleimani. “We advise U.S. officials to refrain from resorting to repetitive and…

Former Senator, Five Guards Killed In Taliban Ambush In W. Afghanistan

QALA-E-NAW, Afghanistan, Sept 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Taliban militants killed a former Afghan senator and five of his guards, in the country’s western Badghis province yesterday, the acting provincial governor confirmed. The incident happened when a vehicle carrying Rangeen Mushkwani, a former member of Meshrano Jirga, or upper house of the…