Thai Authorities Target Stores Selling Alcohol To Underage During New Year Holiday

BANGKOK, Dec 31 (NNN-TNA) – The Thai police warned all alcohol stores against selling alcoholic beverages to the underage, or face heavy penalties. The police are on a watch on retail stores that sell alcohol to those under the age of 20, especially during the New Year holiday, as death…

Six Killed In North India’s Road Mishap Due To Dense Fog

NEW DELHI, Dec 30 (NNN-PTI) – At least six people, including two minors, died, and five others injured, when the vehicle they were in, fell into a canal, in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, late on Sunday night, said media reports. The road mishap reportedly occurred due to the…

Sri Lanka’s Tea Industry Draws Up “Road Map 2030” For Rapid Modernisation

COLOMBO, Dec 30 (NNN-SLNEWS) – Sri Lanka’s tea industry, will launch an ambitious 10-year master plan titled “Road Map 2030,” to rapidly modernise the island country’s tea sector, through technological intervention, local media, quoting Sri Lanka Tea Board (SLTB) Chairman, Jayampathy Molligoda, said here. Molligoda was quoted as saying that…

Dense Fog Hits Indian Capital, Disrupting Rail, Air Transport

NEW DELHI, Dec 30 (NNN-PTI) – Dense blanket of fog covered Indian capital city New Delhi and outskirts Monday morning, leading to disruptions in air and rail transport, officials said. The fog, according to officials, caused zero visibility, impacting traffic. On the roads in the capital, the vehicular traffic was…

Iran To Hold Conference On Peace Plan For Strait Of Hormuz In Jan

TEHRAN, Dec 30 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s capital, Tehran, will host a conference next month, on its peace initiative for the Strait of Hormuz. The conference is scheduled for Jan 7-8, and will focus on regional cooperation plans, particularly on Iran’s initiative of Hormuz Peace Endeavour. Senior Iranian and regional political…

Australian Citizen Held In Iran On Security Charges: Spokesman

TEHRAN, Dec 30 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said, an Australian citizen is being held in detention in Iran, for violating the country’s national security, Tehran Times daily reported, on Sunday. Australian woman, Kylie Moore Gilbert, was arrested in Iran in Sept. She was accused of spying.…

Four Rockets Hit Military Base Housing U.S. Troops Near Iraq’s Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Dec 30 (NNN-NINA) – Four Katyusha rockets hit a base that houses U.S. troops, near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said. The incident took place in the evening, when the rockets struck al-Taji military base, some 30 km north of Baghdad, the official said. The attack…

Palestine Slams Israel’s Deduction Of Palestinian Tax Revenues

RAMALLAH, Palestine, Dec 30 (NNN-MA’AN) – Palestine slammed Israel’s decision to freeze millions of dollars from Palestinian tax revenues it collects, on behalf of the Palestinians. “The Israeli government’s decision to withhold 150 million shekels (43.4 million U.S. dollars) from Palestine’s tax revenues, is a blatant act of theft and…

Israel Appoints New Health Minister To Replace Corruption-Suspect Netanyahu

JERUSALEM, Dec 30 (NNN-WAFA) – A Jewish ultra-Orthodox lawmaker was appointed on Sunday, as Israeli health minister, succeeding Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was forced to resign from the post amid corruption indictment. The cabinet approved Yaakov Litzman, leader of the ultra-Orthodox party of United Torah Judaism, as the new…

19 Hashd Shaabi Members Killed In U.S. Attack In Western Iraq

BAGHDAD, Dec 30 (NNN-NINA) – Up to 19 paramilitary Hashd Shaabi members were killed and 35 wounded, when U.S. forces attacked their bases, near the border with Syria, in Iraq’s western province of Anbar. Jawad Kadhim al-Rebi’awi, a Hashd Shaabi leader, said, the attacks targeted headquarters of the Hashd Shaabi…