Iranian Top Leader Calls For Political Solution To Yemeni War

TEHRAN, Oct 14 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Sunday, called for ending the Yemeni war politically. Iran “has long proposed a plan to end the war in Yemen, which, if implemented, can end the war in a proper way, which can have positive effects on the…

Israeli Scientist Injured In Explosion At Israeli Technion’s Lab

JERUSALEM, Oct 14 (NNN-MA’AN) – A senior Israeli researcher was severely injured, in an explosion in a laboratory, at the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) in the northern city of Haifa. Firefighters rushed to the scene, scoured the building and performed monitoring activities, to avoid additional material leakage, local media…

Erdogan Says Turkish Forces To Push 30-35 Km Into Syrian Territory

ISTANBUL, Oct 14 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that, Turkish forces would “go down to a depth of 30-35 km” into Syrian territory, as planned under Ankara’s safe-zone project. “Then, the operation would be completed, after taking control of Hasaka and Ayn al-Arab,” Erdogan said. He announced…

Nearly 60,000 Afghan Women Get Breast Cancer Annually: Media Report

KABUL, Oct 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – Some 60,000 Afghan women are reportedly developing breast cancer each year, mostly in the capital Kabul, a private English paper, the Daily Outlook Afghanistan, reported Sunday. According to the paper, a survey, conducted by the Afghanistan Cancer Foundation (ACF), in 10 of the country’s 34…

Turkish Forces Capture New Areas In Syria

DAMASCUS, Oct 14 (NNN-SANA) – Turkish forces, on Sunday, captured new areas in northern and northeastern Syria, as part of the declared military assault against Kurdish forces. Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels, captured parts of the town of Tell Abyad, in the northern province of Raqqa and stormed a…

Syrian Gov’t Rules Out Communication With Kurdish Forces Amid Turkish Assault

DAMASCUS, Oct 14 (NNN-SANA) – Jayez Mousa, governor of Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, ruled out any communication with the Kurdish forces, amid ongoing Turkish assault against them in northern Syria, pro-government al-Watan newspaper reported. Negotiation with Kurdish forces is unlikely, “as they were the reason behind the current Turkish…

Israeli Settlers Vandalise Palestinians’ Cars, Spray-Paint Graffiti In West Bank Village

In the village of Marda, southwest of Nablus city, eight cars were damaged and their wheels punctured, in addition to hate slogans painted on walls of residential homes, according to field researchers with Yesh Din, an Israeli-based human rights group. JERUSALEM, Oct 14 (NNN-WAFA) – Israeli settlers vandalised cars and…

Update: Death Toll Rises To 31 As Typhoon Hagibis Lashes Japan

TOKYO, Oct 14 (NNN-NHK) – At least 31 people have died, and another 16 missing as Typhoon Hagibis ripped through Japan, including the Tokyo metropolitan area, leaving more than 376,000 households in Tokyo and regions close-by without power. Meanwhile, some 100 people were injured across the country, according to a…

Roadside Blast Kills 11 Security Officers In Kenya

GARISSA, Kenya, Oct 13 (NNN-KBC) – A roadside blast killed at least 10 paramilitary police officers in Garissa, along Kenya-Somalia border, a security official said. A senior police officer said, the security officers from Harehare General Service Unit (GSU) Camp, lost their lives when their vehicle ran over an improvised…

At Least 16 Killed In Burkina Faso Mosque Attack

OUAGADOUGOU, Oct 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – At least 16 people were killed in a mosque attack, by unidentified gunmen Friday, in northern Burkina Faso. “Unidentified gunmen attacked Salmossi mosque, 20 km from Gorom-Gorom commune (in the Oudalan province, 269 km north-east of the capital Ouagadougou), where about 15 worshippers were killed…