Floods, Landslides In Philippines Killed 10

MANILA, Sept 3 (NNN-PNA) – Floods and landslides triggered by tropical storm Yagi, have killed at least 10 people and left at least one missing, authorities said yesterday. The storm, which landed yesterday in the northern Philippines, has dumped rain on most of the country’s main Luzon Island, including Metro…

Singapore Authority Seizes Over Three Kg Drugs

SINGAPORE, Sept 3 (NNN-XINHUA) – Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), arrested two drug offenders, in a recent operation, and seized more than three kg of drugs, according to a statement published yesterday. The CNB officers seized 2.8 kg of heroin and 385 grams of Ice, among other drugs, with an…

Rallies, Partial Strike Resume In Israel Over Hostage Deaths

JERUSALEM, Sept 3 (NNN-MA’AN) – Rallies and a partial strike continued across Israel for the second day in a row yesterday, as the discovery of the bodies of six hostages in a Gaza tunnel over the weekend has intensified national outage. Protesters descended on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and other cities,…

Jordan Records First Mpox Case This Year

AMMAN, Sept 3 (NNN=PETRA) – Jordan’s Health Ministry announced yesterday that, the country registered the first case of mpox in 2024. The ministry said that, the infected individual is a 33-year-old non-Jordanian male resident, who developed mpox rash and was then diagnosed with the disease through a laboratory test. It…

Yemen’s Houthis Claim Attacking Oil Ship In Red Sea

SANAA, Sept 3 (NNN-SABA) – Yemen’s armed Houthi group, yesterday claimed responsibility for attacking the Panama-flagged “BLUE LAGOON I” oil ship, in the Red Sea. “We carried out a qualitative military operation targeting the ship, BLUE LAGOON I, in the Red Sea, with a number of appropriate missiles and drones,…

Sri Lanka Customs Handed Over Three Million Smuggled Cigarettes For Destruction

COLOMBO, Sept 3 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka Customs transferred approximately three million cigarettes, confiscated during the first half of this year, at Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), for destruction, state media reported yesterday. The estimated street value of the cigarettes handed over to the Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC) for destruction,…

43.5 Kg Drugs Seized In Central Myanmar

YANGON, Sept 3 (NNN-MNA) – Myanmar authorities have seized 43.5 kg of drugs in central Myanmar, state-run media Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV), reported late yesterday. Acting on a tip-off, anti-narcotics police searched a motorcycle in Thazi township of Mandalay region, on Aug 29. During the search, they seized 37…

Suicide Attack Killed Six, Injured 13 In Kabul

KABUL, Sept 3 (NNN-ANA) – Six people were killed while 13 others were injured, in a suicide attack yesterday afternoon, in a south-western area of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, Kabul police spokesperson, Khalid Zadran, said. According to Zadran, a person carrying an improvised explosive device on his body, detonated it in…

Hamas Claims Responsibility For Two Attacks Against Israelis In West Bank

GAZA, Sept 3 (NNN-WAFA) – The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, claimed responsibility yesterday, for shooting and bombing attacks earlier this week in the city of Hebron in the southern West Bank. The Brigades identified the attackers as Mohammed Marqa and Zahdi Abu Afifa, members of the armed…

Japan Logs Joint Hottest Summer, 1.76 Degrees Higher Than Average

TOKYO, Sept 3 (NNN-NHK) – Japan’s weather agency, said yesterday, the country witnessed its joint hottest summer this year since records began, tying the previous record logged last year. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the national average temperature between Jun and Aug was 1.76 degrees Celsius higher than…