Feature: Young Palestinians Launch Initiative To Reduce Plastic Use In Blockaded Gaza

by Sanaa Kamal GAZA, Aug 1 (NNN-XINHUA) – Baraa al-Madhoun and Ghadeer al-Saqa, two young Palestinian women from the blockaded Gaza Strip, spend long hours sewing fabric bags, dedicated to their initiative of reducing the use of plastic bags in the coastal enclave. Together with five other natives of Gaza,…

Iran’s Top Leader Slams U.S. Sanctions Against Iran

TEHRAN, Aug 1 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, yesterday strongly condemned U.S. sanctions on the Iranian nation as “a grave crime.” “The sanctions the Americans exerted against the Iranian nation are for sure a grave crime,” Khamenei said, in a televised speech on the occasion of the…

Obama Warns, Voting Rights Under Threat, At John Lewis’ Funeral

WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Former U.S. President, Barack Obama, delivered an eulogy for the late U.S. congressman, John Lewis’ funeral on Thursday, warning that the voting rights, the late civil rights icon championed, are threatened, heading into the 2020 election. “There are those in power doing their darnedest to…

Highest Single Day Spike Takes India’s COVID-19 Tally To Over 1.6 Million

NEW DELHI, Aug 1 (NNN-UNI) – India recorded the highest ever single-day spike of 55,078 of fresh COVID-19 cases on Friday, taking the total tally to 1,638,870, according to the federal health ministry’s latest data. This is the second consecutive day when fresh COVID-19 cases have increased by more than…

Jordan To Hold Parliamentary Elections On Nov 10

AMMAN, July 30 (NNN-PETRA) – Jordan will hold its parliamentary elections on Nov 10, it was reported yesterday (Wednesday). The date was set hours after King Abdullah issued a royal decree, ordering the parliamentary elections to be held. Under the 2016 Elections Law, the Independent Election Commission will set the…

Assad, Special Russian Envoy To Syria Discuss Upcoming Meeting Of Constitutional Committee

DAMASCUS, July 30 (NNN-SANA) – Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, and the visiting Russian’s special envoy to Syria, Alexander Lavrentiev, discussed the upcoming meeting of the Syrian constitutional committee. Assad and Lavrentiev agreed that the committee, which will hold its meeting next month, should carry out its work without any external…

ADB Approves 20 Million USD Grant To Help Samoa Respond To COVID-19

MANILA, July 30 (NNN-PNA) – Asian Development Bank (ADB), today said, it has approved a 20-million-U.S. dollar grant, to help the government of Samoa respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Manila-based bank said, the grant will help fund measures to upgrade Samoa’s health sector and support the government’s economic stimulus…

Update: One Dead, 17 Injured In Blast In Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture

TOKYO, July 30 (NNN-NHK) – One person has died and at least 17 others have been injured, in an explosion this morning, at a restaurant in Koriyama City, in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, fire department officials said. Investigators said, the explosion occurred shortly before 9:00 a.m. local time, at a…

Vietnam’s Industrial Production Up Slightly In Seven Months

HANOI, July 30 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam’s national index of industrial production, advanced 2.6 percent year-on-year, in the first seven months of this year, according to the General Statistics Office today. The main driver of the rise, the processing and manufacturing sector, went up 4.2 percent, contributing 3.5 percentage points to…

New Zealand Reports One New Case Of COVID-19

WELLINGTON, July 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) – New Zealand reported one new case of COVID-19 today, with the number of active cases in the country reaching 24, all in managed isolation facilities, according to the Ministry of Health. It has been 90 days, since the last case of COVID-19 was acquired locally,…