Chinese Firms Sign 184-Million-USD Deals To Purchase Goods From Laos

KUNMING, China, Nov 24 (NNN-XINHUA) – Chinese companies, signed contracts worth 1.3 billion yuan (about 184 million U.S. dollars) to purchase goods, mainly agricultural products, from their Laos counterparts. The deals were signed as the 2019 Sino-Laos Investment Fair concluded Friday, in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province. A…

Orthodox Jews Opening Up Their Wallets For Trump In 2020

NEW YORK, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Hanukkah came a month early for Donald Trump this year. Though he polls as generally unpopular with Jews and has even been accused of making anti-Semitic remarks in office, New York’s Orthodox enclaves are kvelling over the president — and even raised $4 million…

Israel Closes Down West Bank Mosque As Settlers Flock To Mark Jewish Holiday

RAMALLAH, Palestine, Nov 24 (NNN-WAFA) – Israeli forces closed down the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank’s southern city of Hebron to Palestinians, as thousands of Israeli settlers flock into the city, to mark a Jewish holiday. Israeli forces also shut a main road leading to Hebron’s central market, to…

5.9-Magnitude Quake Jolts New Zealand, Felt By Thousands

WELLINGTON, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A 5.9-magnitude earthquake hit North Island, New Zealand, on Sunday (this) morning and was felt by thousands of people. More than 5,000 people reported feeling the earthquake, which happened offshore around 5:34 a.m. local time. There is no report of human casualty yet. The earthquake,…

34 Illegal Immigrants With Infectious Disease Deported From Eastern Libya

TRIPOLI, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The Illegal Immigration Control Department of the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk, deported 34 Egyptian and Sudanese illegal immigrants to their countries, it was reported. The deported immigrants were infected with AIDS and hepatitis, the report said. The illegal immigrants were deported through the Egyptian…

AU Expresses Deep Concern Over UK’s Continued Colonial Administration Of Chagos Archipelago

ADDIS ABABA, Nov 24 (NNN-ENA) – Chairperson of the African Union (AU), Moussa Faki Mahamat, expressed deep concern, over the continued “colonial administration” of the UK to the Chagos Archipelago. “The Chairperson expresses his deep concern over the continued colonial administration of the United Kingdom, to the Chagos Archipelago, in…

Turkey To Seek Alternatives If Can’t Acquire U.S. F-35 Fighter Jets

ANKARA, Nov 24 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey would seek alternatives, if it could not acquire the U.S. F-35 fighter jets, Turkish Defence Minister, Hulusi Akar, said. “All should be aware that Turkey will have to look for alternatives, if the F-35’s cannot be acquired for any reason,” Akar said, during an…

Iran Condemns U.S. Sanctions On Information Minister

TEHRAN, Nov 24 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry, on Saturday, condemned the U.S. fresh move, to sanction the Iranian minister of information and communications technology (ICT). U.S. Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, announced sanctions on the Iranian Minister, Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, over what he called, Jahromi’s alleged role in the…

Suspected Daesh “Liaison” To Abu Sayyaf Killed In Southern Philippines

MANILA, Nov 24 (NNN-PNA) – Philippine security forces have killed an alleged liaison of the Daesh to the Abu Sayyaf militants, operating in the remote island provinces in southern Philippines, the military confirmed on Saturday. The military’s Joint Task Force Sulu (JTFS), identified the slain militant as Talha Jumsah, also…

Dozens Of Animal Mummies, Statues Discovered In Egypt’s Giza Necropolis

CAIRO, Nov 24 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, announced the discovery of dozens of ancient mummies and statues of animals, dating back to some 2,700 years ago, inside a cache at Saqqara necropolis in Giza province, near the capital, Cairo. “The unearthed objects, including mummified lion cubs, cats, crocodiles…