Over 1,400 Recruits Join Afghan Army After Military Training

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A total of 1,410 youth, after completion of six-month military course and receiving certificates in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, have been commissioned into the army, said an army statement, released here Sunday (yesterday). The newly graduated soldiers would be deployed in the country’s…

62 Arrested For Illegal Mining In Ghana

ACCRA, Dec 15 (NNN-GNA) – Police said Saturday that, 62 people were arrested, on suspicion of illegal mining, at the western Ghanaian town of Kenyasi. The move came after a series of complaints from an international gold firm, Newmont Goldcorp, over the incursions of illegal miners into their concession, in…

6.9-Magnitude Quake Hits Southern Philippines — USGS

DAVAO, Dec 15 (NNN-PNA) – According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a powerful 6.9-magnitude tremor, has hit the island of Mindanao, near the city of Davao, in the Philippines. The epicentre of the quake was situated at 56 km (35 miles) southwest of the city, at a depth…

Bus Crash Kills At Least 14 In Central Nepal

KATHMANDU, Dec 15 (NNN-NEPALNEWS) – At least 14 passengers were killed, while 16 others were injured, in a bus crash at Sindhupalchowk district, in central Nepal, on Sunday morning, authorities confirmed. Ganesh Khanal, spokesperson at district police office Sindhupalchowk, said, “12 passengers died on the spot, while two breathed their…

Three Killed In Indian Capital’s Building Fire

NEW DELHI, Dec 15 (NNN-PTI) – Three women were killed and four people injured in a fire, that engulfed a four-storey residential building, in the Indian capital on Saturday, police said today (Sunday). The fire broke out Saturday evening at Shalimar Bagh locality, northwest of Delhi. “Last evening a fire…

Kuwait Launches Beach Cleaning Campaign

KUWAIT, Dec 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), launched on Saturday, a campaign to clean the country’s beach. Themed “We Lead the Change,” the campaign called on people, to clean the shore of Al-Sabah Medical Area, in Kuwait City, where dozens of volunteers, including those with disabilities,…

Iran’s IRGC To Stage Major Naval Drill Soon

TEHRAN, Iran, Dec 15 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), will hold a large-scale naval exercise, in the country’s southern waters, it was reported on Saturday. Commander of the IRGC’s Navy, Ali Reza Tangsiri, told Tasnim that the massive naval war game will be launched in the near…

Iran, Eurasian Preferential Trade Value Exceeds 194 Million USD In Nov

TEHRAN, Dec 15 (NNN-IRNA) – The value of Iran’s preferential trade with the Eurasian countries reached 194.2 million U.S. dollars in Nov, Head of Iran’s Customs Administration, Mehdi Mirashrafi, said. During the one-month period, Iran exported commodities worth 28.2 million dollars to the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) members, while importing…

Morocco Seizes 650 Kg Of Cannabis

RABAT, Dec 15 (NNN-MAP) – Moroccan security services, said that, it had seized 650 kg of cannabis, in the southern city of Agadir. Members of the judicial police, supported by the Regional Intervention Squad of Agadir, caught a vehicle loaded with drugs, said Moroccan police. The driver, who refused to…

Third World Youth Forum opens in Egypt

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Dec 15 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, inaugurated on Saturday, the third edition of Egypt’s annual World Youth Forum (WYF), at the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, with several topics to be thoroughly discussed, during the four-day international event. “From the blessed lands…