20 Militants Killed, Nine Arrested In Afghan Special Forces Operations

KABUL, Sept 22 (NNN-XINHUA) – Units of the Afghan Special Forces, backed by fighter planes, killed 20 militants in western Badghis and northern Kunduz provinces, during overnight operations, officials said. In the first operation conducted against militants in Balamurghab district of western Badghis province, in the wee hours of Saturday,…

6.4-Magnitude Quake Strikes Off Eastern Indonesia, Not Potential For Tsunami

JAKARTA, Sept 22 (NNN-ANTARA) – A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia’s eastern Maluku province earlier Sunday (today), but there was no tsunami alert issued, the meteorology and geophysics agency said. The quake struck at 2:53 a.m. Jakarta time, Sunday (1953 GMT Saturday), with epicentre at 165 km northwest of Maluku Tenggara…

UN Security Council Extends Mandate Of UN Investigative Team On Daesh Crimes In Iraq

BAGHDAD, Sept 22 (NNN-NINA) – The United Nations (UN) Security Council voted unanimously on extending the mandate of a UN team, tasked with investigations in crimes committed by the Daesh group in Iraq. A statement by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said, the Security Council voted to extend…

China-Aided Hydro-power Station Project In Burundi To Expand Cooperation

RUMONGE, Burundi, Sept 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – The China-aided Ruzibazi hydro-power station project, located in Burundi’s Rumonge province, will expand bilateral cooperation, Burundian President, Pierre Nkurunziza, said Friday. Nkurunziza made the remark when attending a construction commencement ceremony for the project held onsite. The project, the largest China-aided project in Burundi…

Namibia To Join Global Sanitation Partnership To Improve National Situation

WINDHOEK, Sept 21 (NNN-NAMPA) – Namibia is set to join a global partnership — Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) — to improve the country’s sanitation situation. Joining SWA will enable Namibia to learn from other countries to adopt, monitor and evaluate water sanitation and hygiene, said Deputy Minister of…

Hamilton Fastest In Singapore GP Second Practise

SINGAPORE, Sept 21 (NNN-CNA) – Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton fired an ominous warning to his rivals, at this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, by topping the timing sheets in the second free practise session at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. Hamilton’s best time of 1:38.773 was over 0.1s faster than the Red…

Pilot Killed As Two-Seater Plane Crashes In Philippines

MANILA, Sept 21 (NNN-PNA) – A two-seater plane crashed into a rice field in Pampanga province, north of the Philippine capital of Manila, on Friday, killing a British pilot. Pampanga police said, the incident happened at around 3:00 p.m. in La Paz, a village in Arayat town on Luzon island.…

Two Pakistani Soldiers Killed In NW Pakistan’s Bomb Explosion

ISLAMABAD, Sept 21 (NNN-APP) – Two Pakistani security personnel were killed in an explosion of an improvised explosive device, in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal district of Mohmand, director-general of the Pakistani army’s media wing said. An officer and a soldier, with their squad, were on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, off the Mohmand…

Spotlight: Cambodia Raises Minimum Wage For Garment, Footwear Sectors For 2020

PHNOM PENH, Sept 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Cambodian government set a new monthly minimum wage for the country’s multi-billion-dollar garment and footwear industries, at 190 U.S. dollars for 2020, up 4.39 percent from the current 182 dollars, Labour Minister, Ith Samheng announced. The announcement came, after the National Council for…

Kuwait Raises Security Alert Level At Oil And Commercial Ports

KUWAIT, Sept 21 (NNN-KUNA) – Kuwait will raise its port security level of facilities, the Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA), said on Friday. The decision was issued by Khaled Al-Roudhan, Kuwait’s minister of commerce and industry, and state minister for services, KPA said in a statement. According to the ministerial decree,…