Iraq Signs 1.07-Billion-USD Deal With Chinese Company To Process Gas In Halfaya Oilfield

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 9 (NNN-NINA) – Iraq and a Chinese company signed, on Wednesday, a 1.07-billion-U.S. dollar agreement, to process associated gas, extracted from Iraq’s southern giant Halfaya oilfield. In the signing ceremony, at the Iraqi Oil Ministry in Baghdad, PetroChina, which is the listed arm of state-owned China National…

Two Killed In Motorcycle Blast In Northern Syria

DAMASCUS, Syria, May 9 (NNN-SANA) – At least two people were killed and four others wounded, on Wednesday, by the blast of a motorcycle in northern Syria, a war monitor reported. The booby-trapped motorcycle went off, in the western countryside of the Kurdish-controlled Manbij city, in the northern countryside of…

Turkey’s Main Opposition Appeals For Cancelling 2018 Elections

ANKARA, Turkey, May 9 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), on Wednesday appealed to the Supreme Election Council (YSK), for cancelling the results of last year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, along with the March 31 local polls across all Istanbul districts. “The election body should also revoke…

U.S. Blackmails Palestinians To Accept Upcoming Peace Plan: PM

RAMALLAH, Palestine, May 9 (NNN-WAFA) – The Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Mohammad Ishtaye, accused the United States of blackmailing the Palestinians to surrender, and accept its upcoming peace plan, known as “Deal of the Century.” “It is obvious that the recent U.S. measures, taken against the Palestinians, aimed at obliging…

Lebanese House Speaker Says Lebanon “Not Bankrupt”

BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 9 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanon’s House Speaker, Nabih Berri, slammed rumours about Lebanon being on the verge of bankruptcy. “Lebanon is not bankrupt and the rumours that are being spread do not reflect reality,” Berri said, during his weekly meeting with members of parliament in the capital, Beirut.…

Iraq Condemns Deadly Suicide Attack In Pakistan

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 9 (NNN-NINA) – Iraq on Wednesday, strongly condemned the terrorist attack outside a Sufi shrine, in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore that killed and wounded dozens of people. “Iraq strongly condemns the terrorist attack, and stresses that the principles of Islam are to save lives, spread peace,…

Syrian Refugees Return Home From Jordan, Rukban Camp

DAMASCUS, Syria, May 9 (NNN-SANA) – Batches of Syrian refugees returned from Jordan and a southern Syrian camp on Wednesday (yesterday). The refugees returned to Syria through the Nasib border crossing in the southern province of Daraa. It was reported that 19,600 refugees returned from Jordan, since the reopening of…

Six Paris Firemen To Be Charged Over Alleged Gang Rape Of Norwegian Student

PARIS, France, May 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Six firemen in Paris were set to be charged on Monday, over the alleged gang rape of a 20-year-old Norwegian student, at a fire station in the city, legal sources said. The woman filed a rape complaint after going to the fire station, in…

Czech Republic Marks 74th Anniversary Of End Of WWII In Europe

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Czech President, Milos Zeman, and other senior officials, including Prime Minister, Andrej Babis, and Defence Minister, Lubomir Metnar, laid wreaths at the National Memorial in Prague, to commemorate the 74th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. The reverent act…

18 Injured After Bangladeshi Plane Skids Off Runway At Myanmar’s Airport

YANGON, Myanmar, May 9 (NNN-BSS) – Some 18 people, including five crew members, were injured, after a passenger plane of the Biman Bangladesh airlines skidded off the runway, at Myanmar’s Yangon International Airport (YIA), on Wednesday, said the Department of Civil Aviation, Myanmar. The Biman Flight No. BG-60 from Dhaka…