US Recovers Remains From Air Force Plane Crash In Afghanistan

WASHINGTON, Jan29 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The U.S. military recovered remains of two personnel of U.S. Air Force aircraft, that crashed in Afghanistan. “The remains were found near the crash site, treated with dignity and respect by the local Afghan community, in accordance with their culture,” according to a U.S. Forces Afghanistan…

5.4-Magnitude Quake Strikes, Off Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture

TOKYO, Japan, Jan 29 (NNN-NHK) – An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4, on Wednesday (today), struck off Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at 8:39 a.m. local time, with its epicentre at a latitude of 27.2 degrees north, and a longitude of…

Jordanians Hold Sit-In Against Trump’s Mideast Peace Plan

AMMAN, Jan 29 (NNN-XINHUA) – Dozens of Jordanians held a sit-in near the U.S. embassy in Amman, on Tuesday night (last night), in protest against U.S. President, Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan. Chanting slogans against the United States, the protesters said, the deal is doomed to fail, as it…

Turkey Says Trump’s Mideast Peace Plan “Stillborn”

ISTANBUL, Jan 29 (NNN-ANADOLU) – The Turkish Foreign Ministry, said that, the peace plan announced by U.S. President, Donald Trump, to end the conflict between Israel and Palestine, is “stillborn.” “This plan is an annexation plan, aiming to destroy the two-state solution and seize Palestinian territories,” the ministry said, in…

Iran Rejects U.S. Mideast Peace Plan As “Disgraceful”

TEHRAN, Jan 29 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry, strongly rejected the U.S. Middle East peace plan as “disgraceful.” In a statement released hours after U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of the so-called Deal of the Century, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said, it is the “betrayal of the century”…

Bushfire Poses “Most Serious” Fire Threat Since 2003 To Australian Capital

CANBERRA, Jan 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A bushfire in the south of Canberra is recognised as the most serious bushfire threat to the Australian capital since 2003, according to local sources. The fire, believed to have started on Monday, by the landing of a defence helicopter, engulfed nearly 8,000 hectares as…

Israeli Watchdog B’Tselem Slams Trump’s ‘Peace Plan’ As Apartheid Against Palestinians

JERUSALEM, Jan 29 (NNN-DS) – Palestinians will be relegated to small, enclosed, isolated enclaves, with no control over their lives, as the plan eternalises the fragmentation of Palestinian space into disconnected slivers of territory, in a sea of Israeli control, not unlike the Bantus of South Africa’s Apartheid regime,” Israeli…

Netanyahu Formally Indicted In Court Over Corruption Charges

JERUSALEM, Jan 29 (NNN-MA’AN) – Criminal indictment, charging Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu with corruption, was filed in the Jerusalem District Court on Tuesday, the Attorney-General’s office said. The office of Attorney-General Avihai Mandelblit, said that, the indictment charges Netanyahu with three separate cases of corruption. The charges include bribery,…

Zoo Animals Starve To Death In War-Torn Yemen

SANAA, Jan 29 (NNN-XINHUA) – Animals are starving in a national zoo in Yemen’s rebel-held capital, Sanaa. The country’s civil war caused the collapse of local currency and escalation of food prices, making it hard to get food and medical care for animals in the zoo. “Four lions have died…

Indonesia’s Sinar Mars Group Donates 14.4 Million USD To Aid China Coronavirus Control

SHANGHAI, Jan 28 (NNN-ANTARA) – APP (China), a subsidiary of Indonesia-based Sinar Mars Group, donated 100 million yuan (14.4 million U.S. dollars) on Monday, to help curb the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), in China. The funds were transferred to the Overseas Chinese Charity Foundation of…