Indian Security Forces Gun Down Five Armed Rebels

NEW DELHI, Oct 22 (NNN-PTI) – Indian security forces killed five armed rebels, popularly known as Naxals, in the western state of Maharashtra, yesterday, police confirmed. An encounter between security forces and armed rebels took place in Maharashtra’s forest district of Gadchiroli. A search operation was ongoing in the area,…

Zionist Warplanes Bombed Hezbollah Financial Institution In Lebanon

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Oct 22 (NNN-XINHUA) – Zionist warplanes, on Sunday evening, began bombing branches of Al Qard Al Hassan, a financial institution affiliated with Hezbollah, al-Jadeed local TV channel reported. The TV channel confirmed that the branch of the financial institution in Chiyah in Beirut’s southern suburbs had been attacked, with…

Hamas Claims Killing Israeli Soldiers, Targeting Military Vehicles In N. Gaza

GAZA, Oct 21 (NNN-WAFA) – The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced yesterday that, they had killed and wounded Israeli soldiers in several operations in the northern Gaza Strip. In separate statements, the brigades reported that, its forces targeted in the west of the Jabalia camp an Israeli…

Native Americans Call For Action Against Violence, Trafficking Of Indigenous Women

NEW YORK, Oct 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – Indigenous Americans urged efforts against long-standing violence and sex trafficking of indigenous women, during the 3rd Annual National Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Parade here on Saturday. “We’re still going missing and we’re still not being reported as missing,” Junise Golden Feather Bliss, a…

Moldova To Hold Presidential Runoff

BUCHAREST, Oct 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – Moldova is set to hold a runoff presidential election on Nov 3, as none of the candidates gained the required over 50 percent of the votes, in the first round, after almost all the votes were counted early this morning. Under the country’s constitution, a…

Moldova Holds Presidential Election, EU Membership Referendum

BUCHAREST, Oct 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – Moldovan voters went to the polls yesterday, for the country’s presidential election and a referendum on joining the European Union (EU). The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Moldova, said yesterday in a press release that, 2,219 polling stations were open to an estimated 3.3 million…

Prabowo Subianto Sworn In As Indonesian President

JAKARTA, Oct 21 (NNN-ANTARA) – Indonesia’s former army general, Prabowo Subianto, was sworn in as the country’s eighth president yesterday, at the parliament building, succeeding Joko Widodo, who led the world’s fourth most populous nation for the past decade. Prabowo, who had been serving as defence minister, and his running…

Egypt Condemns Israel’s Senseless Killing Of Palestinians In N. Gaza; Death toll has risen to 42,603

CAIRO, Oct 21 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt condemned yesterday, the Israeli regime’s senseless bombing of a residential area in the northern Gaza Strip, which killed and injured more than a hundred Palestinians, as well as, its continued targeting of defenseless civilians and civilian facilities, in the Gaza strip. In a statement,…

Singapore Sees Oil Leak In Near Waters

SINGAPORE, Oct 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), reported an oil leakage from a Shell land-based pipeline, between Bukom Island and Bukom Kecil, yesterday. Shell has placed containment booms off the leak site, and deployed craft, equipped with dispersants to clean up the oil, MPA…

Labour Unrest Causes Nearly Half A Billion USD Production Loss In Bangladesh Garment Industry

DHAKA, Oct 21 (NNN-BSS) – The recent labour unrest that erupted in several major readymade garment industrial hubs, on the outskirts of Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, caused damage worth nearly half a billion U.S. dollars. “We’ve suffered a production loss of around 400 million dollars, due to the unrest in Sept…