Spring Flower Festival Opens In Australian Capital

CANBERRA, Sept 14 (NNN-AAP) – Floriade, Australia’s biggest celebration of spring, has opened in the nation’s capital, Canberra. The 37th edition of the annual flower and entertainment festival, launched today, in Canberra’s Commonwealth Park. One of Canberra’s largest events, Floriade is expected to attract over 450,000 people – almost the…

Latin American Bloc Condemns New U.S. Sanctions On Venezuelan Officials

CARACAS, Sept 14 (NNN-ABN) – The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) expressed its strong opposition yesterday, to the latest round of sanctions imposed by the United States on Venezuelan officials. “The ALBA-TCP forcefully repudiates this new attack against public officials, their human and civil…

DR Congo Military Court Sentences 37 Coup Plotters To Death

KINSHASA, Sept 14 (NNN-IRIN) – Thirty-seven alleged coup plotters, including three Americans, were convicted and sentenced to death, yesterday, by a Kinshasa military court, in a trial against the failed coup of May 19, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A total of 51 people were tried by…

Greek PM Requested EU Intervention For Distortions In Energy Market

ATHENS, Sept 14 (NNN-AMNA) – Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, requested yesterday, an immediate response from the European Union (EU) to distortions in European energy market. The distortions have resulted in extremely high electricity prices in central, eastern European and Balkan countries, compared to western European states, according to Mitsotakis.…

Landslides Killed At Least Six In Bangladesh

DHAKA, Sept 14 (NNN-BSS) – At least six people were killed, and many dwellings were damaged, in several rain-triggered landslides in Bangladesh’s south-eastern Cox’s Bazar district, a senior official said, yesterday. Mohammad Shamsuddouza Nayan, additional refugee relief and repatriation commissioner, said, a huge landslide took place Thursday, in a refugee…

DPRK Top Leader Met Visiting Russian Senior Official

PYONGYANG, Sept 14 (NNN-KCNA) – Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), met with visiting Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council, Sergei Shoigu, yesterday. During the talks, they had a wide…

One Killed, Seven Injured In Zionist Airstrike On Lebanese Town

BEIRUT, Sept 14 (NNN-NNA) – One person was killed and seven others were injured yesterday, in a Zionist airstrike on a residential apartment, in the town of Ahmadieh in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military sources. The military sources, said that, a Zionist drone fired two air-to-ground missiles at a…

First Round Of Gaza Anti-Polio Campaign Ends, 560,000 Children Vaccinated: UN

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – The United Nations and its partners have vaccinated against polio, more than 560,000 children under 10, in the Gaza Strip, UN humanitarians said yesterday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said, the World Health Organisation (WHO), reported that, the first…

ADB Approves 320 Million USD Loan To Enhance Climate Resilience, Upgrade Roads In Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Sept 14 (NNN-APP) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB), approved a 320-million U.S. dollar-loan, to support the rehabilitation of roads in Pakistan’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, enhancing safe and all-weather connectivity in rural areas, and climate resilience, the ADB said, yesterday. The loan will help upgrade around 900 km…

Sri Lanka adjusts personal income tax structures

COLOMBO, Sept 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Sri Lankan government announced proposed adjustments to the personal income tax structure, which will come into effect in Apr, next year, according to the president’s media division (PMD), yesterday. The PMD said, these changes aim to maintain fiscal responsibility, while providing relief to those…