Retail Trade In Kazakhstan Grew By 9.8 Percent Last Year

ALMATY, Jan 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – The retail trade in Kazakhstan saw a 9.8 percent rise from Jan to Dec last year, reaching a total of 22.445 trillion tenge (about 42.51 billion U.S. dollar), the Bureau of National Statistics of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms said, yesterday. Retail sales…

Egypt Prepares For Rafah Crossing Reopening Amid Gaza Ceasefire Progress

CAIRO, Jan 14 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt heightened its preparedness for the reopening of the Rafah border crossing, in anticipation of a potential ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, as negotiations show signs of progress, an Egyptian official said, yester,day. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, authorities have…

Four Killed, Five Injured In Landslide In Western Indonesia

JAKARTA, Jan 14 (NNN-ANTARA) – Four people were killed in the Indonesian city of Batam, located in the Riau Islands province, after a landslide struck a housing complex, early yesterday. The disaster also injured five others and destroyed five houses, according to the province’s disaster mitigation agency. Hendrija, the agency’s…

Lebanon’s President Appoints Nawaf Salam As New PM

BEIRUT, Jan 14 (NNN-NNA) – Nawaf Salam, president of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, was named Lebanon’s new prime minister and tasked with forming a new government yesterday, the Lebanese presidency announced in a statement. The appointment followed Salam’s garnering of 84 out of 128 parliamentary votes,…

Death Toll Rises To 11 In SW Pakistan’s Coal Mine Collapse

ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (NNN-APP) – The death toll in the coal mine collapse, in Pakistan’s south-west Balochistan province, has risen to 11, as rescuers retrieved more bodies of the trapped miners, the chief mines inspector of the province said, yesterday. The incident happened in the provincial capital city of Quetta,…

One Dead After Car Crashes Into Sydney House

SYDNEY, Jan 13 (NNN-AAP) – A woman was killed, and a man has been hospitalised, after the car they were in crashed into a house in Sydney’s south-west, today. Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said that, officers were called to reports of a crash in the…

Six Killed After Van Crashed Into Grocery Store In Vietnam’s Central Region

HANOI, Jan 13 (NNN-VNA) – Six people, including four children, in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An, have been killed, after a van, losing control, crashed into a grocery store, local media reported today. The accident occurred around 5:00 p.m. yesterday, when the van lost control, at a slope in…

Sao Tome And Principe’s New PM Resigns

SAO TOME, Jan 13 (NNN-STP) – Prime Minister of Sao Tome and Principe, Ilza Amado Vaz, submitted her resignation to President Carlos Vila Nova, yesterday, citing the premature release of her proposed cabinet list to the public, before informing the president, according to a presidential decree that dismissed her from…

Death Toll Rises To 23 In Bus Crash In Libya, Five Injured

TRIPOLI, Jan 13 (NNN-LANA) – The death toll from a traffic accident, which took place in the vicinity of the Abu Qurain village, near Libya’s Al-Loud area, yesterday, has risen to 23, with five others injured, revising an earlier report of eight deaths and 20 injuries, by the Ministry of…

Zoran Milanovic Secures Landslide Victory In Croatian Presidential Runoff

ZAGREB, Jan 13 (NNN-CNA) – Incumbent Croatian President, Zoran Milanovic, convincingly won the presidential runoff held yesterday, beating his rival, Dragan Primorac, with a commanding lead, according to the Croatian State Election Commission (SEC). With 99.59 percent of the votes processed, Milanovic garnered 74.67 percent, leaving Primorac far behind with…