Palestinian President Hails UN’s Decision To Extend Mandate For Palestinian Refugees

RAMALLAH, Palestine, Dec 14 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, hailed the United Nations General Assembly’s resolution, to extend the mandate of the UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees. The UN Agency to relief Palestinian refugees is acting in five different areas in the Middle East, which…

Captive Israeli Soldiers Only To Be Freed Via Swap Deal: Hamas

GAZA, Palestine, Dec 14 (NNN-WAFA) – A high-ranking Islamic Hamas movement official, said that, his movement will release captive Israeli soldiers only through a comprehensive swap deal. “Any captive Israeli soldier won’t be released, until all Palestinians, imprisoned in Israeli jails are freed,” said Fathi Hammad, adding, Hamas “is seeking…

UN Refugee Agency Calls For Intensified Support For Displaced Afghans

GENEVA, Dec 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The UN refugee agency UNHCR, appealed for intensified support for displaced Afghans, saying that, Afghans are the single largest group of asylum seekers arriving in Europe. Speaking ahead of the first ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva next week, Babar Baloch, spokesperson for UNHCR, told…

Former Turkish PM Forms New Party

ANKARA, Dec 14 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey’s former Prime Minister and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Ahmet Davutoglu announced the establishment of his Future Party on Friday. “The future is our nation’s, the future is Turkey. Despite all the pressures and the climate of fear, we came…

Update: New Zealand Rescue Team Recovers Six Bodies From Volcanic Island Despite Eruption Risk

WELLINGTON, Dec 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – The recovery team retrieved six bodies from New Zealand’s White Island volcano, despite eruption risks, four days after it erupted. Efforts are still being made to recover two more bodies, including one that was spotted in the water, near the shore of the volcano Island,…

Expo 2020 Dubai Appoints Dubai Media Incorporated As ‘Official Host Broadcaster’

DUBAI, Dec 12 (NNN-WAM) – Expo 2020 Dubai announced, Dubai Media Incorporated, DMI, as the ‘Official Host Broadcaster’ for the first World Expo in the Arab world. The Official Host Broadcaster will play a vital role in managing and facilitating broadcasting activities from the Expo 2020 site, and will be…

Air Quality In Indian Capital City Continues To Be Severe

NEW DELHI, Dec 12 (NNN-PTI) – The air pollution level in the Indian capital city, New Delhi, and the outskirts of the national capital region (NCR) today (Thursday), continued to be severe for the second straight day. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the overall air quality index…

Taliban claims responsibility for attack on U.S. base in Afghanistan

KABUL, Dec 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Taliban outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack on the main U.S. military base in Bagram, 50 km north of Kabul that left eight dead including six attackers, two civilians and over 70 civilians injured. In the bloody offensive, which begun with a truck…

Afghan Woman Dead, Over 60 Wounded In Explosions Outside U.S. Military Airbase

KABUL, Dec 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – Several militants and one Afghan woman were killed and 62 civilians wounded, after assailants launched bomb attacks in Bagram district, eastern province of Parwan. Two massive explosions occurred roughly at 05:50 a.m. local time, when the first group of attackers exploded two car bombs outside…

Japan’s Nuclear Watchdog Green-Lights Plan For Reactors To Be Scrapped In Fukui

TOKYO, Dec 12 (NNN-NHK) – Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA), green-lit plans for two reactors at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture to be scrapped. The plant’s operator, Kansai Electric Power Co., believed, decommissioning of the reactors would be cheaper than the costs necessary to upgrade them, to…