Japan Experienced Hottest July On Record

TOKYO, Aug 2 (NNN-NHK) – Japan’s weather agency said yesterday that, the past month was the hottest July since records began in 1898. The national average temperature for July was 2.16 degrees Celsius above the baseline average calculated from 1991 to 2020, marking the highest recorded in over 120 years,…

Japan’s Nikkei Plummets Over 2,000 Points

TOKYO, Aug 2 (NNN-NHK) – Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, saw a significant drop this morning, plunging more than 2,000 points, and falling below the 37,000 mark. This represented one of the steepest declines since early Feb, during intraday trading. The sharp downturn in the…

New H5N1 Bird Flu Case Raises To Eight In Cambodia This Year

PHNOM PENH, Aug 2 (NNN-AKP) – Another human case of H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed on a four-year-old boy from south-east Cambodia’s Svay Rieng province, raising the number of cases to eight, since the start of 2024, said a Ministry of Health’s statement late yesterday. “Laboratory results from the…

Lightning Strikes Killed 10 In India’s Bihar

NEW DELHI, Aug 2 (NNN-PTI) – At least 10 people were killed, due to lightning strikes, in India’s eastern state of Bihar, in the last 24 hours, the state-run broadcaster, All India Radio, said yesterday. Heavy rains and thunderstorms accompanied by lightning strikes lashed the state during the past 24…

99 Killed, 214 Injured In Rain-Related Accidents In Pakistan Last Month

ISLAMABAD, Aug 2 (NNN-APP) – Torrential rains and flash floods killed 99 people and left 214 others injured, in different parts of Pakistan during July, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), said, yesterday. Thirty-nine people lost their lives in the eastern Punjab, 29 in the north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 22 in…

Former Iranian FM Zarif Appointed VP For Strategic Affairs

TEHRAN, Aug 2 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, yesterday appointed former Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, as vice president for strategic affairs, and head of the Centre for Strategic Studies. Pezeshkian made the appointment in a decree, after taking oath of office before the Iranian parliament on Tuesday, the…

Saudi FM, Blinken Discussed Mideast Tensions Over Phone

RIYADH, Aug 2 (NNN-SPA) – Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, and U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, discussed regional developments in the Middle East, over the phone yesterday. Both sides highlighted the significance of reducing escalation and reaching a sustainable ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the…

35 More Palestinians Killed By Zionist Bombing In Gaza City: Latest death toll – 39,480

GAZA, Aug 2 (NNN-WAFA) – At least 35 more Palestinians were killed, during a Zionist bombing of another school, sheltering displaced families in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, yesterday. The Zionist airstrike targeted the Dalal Mughrabi school, and the victims included women and children. Meanwhile, the Zionist Defence Forces,…

Sri Lanka To Issue Updated Passports From Oct

COLOMBO, Aug 2 (NNN-XINHUA) – Sri Lanka will start issuing passports with updated colours and designs for diplomatic, official and regular passports from Oct, a minister said, yesterday. Minister of Public Security, Tiran Alles, said at a meeting with ministry officials that, most other countries in the region have updated…

Iraq Signs Deal With British Oil Giant To Develop Four Oilfields

BAGHDAD, Aug 2 (NNN-NINA) – Iraq signed a memorandum of understanding with British oil giant, BP, yesterday, to develop four oil and gas fields in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk. Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani, oversaw the signing ceremony of the memorandum between the Iraqi Oil Ministry and BP,…