Afghan Air Raids Kill Two Taliban Commanders

HERAT, Afghanistan, Jan 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Two Taliban commanders have been confirmed killed, as fighting planes struck a Taliban hideout, in Zawal district of Afghanistan’s western Herat province, provincial governor’s spokesman, Jilani Farhad, said Wednesday (today). According to the official, acting upon intelligence report, the planes struck Taliban’s hideout in…

Update: Death Toll From India Bus Accident Rises To 26

MUMBAI, Jan 29 (NNN-PTI) — The death toll from a state transport bus accident on Tuesday afternoon, in India’s state of Maharashtra rose to 20, with 30 other injured passengers admitted to hospital, local police said. The accident happened when the driver of the bus lost control, after one of…

Cambodian Economy Projected To Grow 7.1 Percent This Year

PHNOM PENH, Jan 29 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia’s economy is projected to remain robust in 2020, despite stronger external headwinds, the Singapore-based ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) said. “Real GDP (gross domestic product) growth is forecast to moderate to a more sustainable rate of 7.1 percent in 2019 and 2020, supported…

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…