Iran Hails Progress In Cooperation With Saudi Arabia

TEHRAN, May 14 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, hailed the success in the expansion of cooperation between Tehran and Riyadh, following their normalisation of bilateral ties. He made the remarks at the third Iranian-Arab Dialogue Conference, in Iran’s capital Tehran, which was attended by Iranian officials, foreign ambassadors…

Weaponries, Ammunition Discovered In East Afghanistan

KHOST, Afghanistan, May 13 (NNN-ANA) – Personnel of counter-terrorism, discovered a variety of arms and a quantity of ammunition, during a series of operations in east Afghanistan’s Khost province within the last two months, local official reported, yesterday. The confiscated armaments and ammunition included 14 Kalashnikovs, five pistols, a PK…

New Zealand Sees Price Increase For Food, Int’l Airfares

WELLINGTON, May 13 (NNN-RNZ) – New Zealand’s monthly food prices rose 0.6 percent in Apr, compared with March this year, while international airfares rose 7.2 percent in the same month, according to the statistics department Stats NZ, today. Last month was the first monthly rise in food prices in three…

Laos Donates Pair Of Asian Elephants To Cambodia

TAKEO, Cambodia, May 13 (NNN-AKP) – Laos, yesterday, handed over a pair of rare Asian elephants to Cambodia, in order to further deepen the bond of friendship and solidarity between the two countries and peoples. Linkham Douangsavanh, Lao minister of agriculture and forestry, delivered the mammals, a male and a…

Wall Collapse Killed Three Children In Hanoi

HANOI, May 13 (NNN-VNA) – Three children in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, were found dead, in wall collapse rubble, following torrential rain last night, it was reported today. Two children were three years old and another was five. All were living in Ba Vi district. The incident happened at a hillside…

34 Killed As Lava Floods Hit West Sumatra

JAKARTA, May 13 (NNN-ANTARA) – The death toll from lava floods that struck Indonesia’s West Sumatra province on Saturday, rose to 34, with at least five others missing, a senior official of the local disaster agency, said yesterday. The rains poured down the area at the slope of the Marapi…

S. Korea’s Export Rose 16.5 Percent In First 10 Days Of May

SEOUL, May 13 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s export rose in double digits, in the first 10 days of this month, due to solid demand for locally-made semiconductors and automobiles, customs office data showed, today. Export amounted to 16.81 billion U.S. dollars in the May 1-10 period, up 16.5 percent compared…

Israel Renews Massive Strikes On Northern Gaza, Thousands Displaced Again

GAZA, May 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – Israeli warplanes bombed several areas in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday, while fierce clashes erupted between Hamas and the Zionist forces, carrying out fresh operations in those areas. Palestinian security sources told Xinhua that, Israel carried out heavy air and artillery strikes on residential buildings…

Kuwait Announces New Government

KUWAIT CITY, May 13 (NNN-KUNA) – A Kuwaiti Emiri decree was issued last night, announcing the forming of a new cabinet, led by Prime Minister-designate, Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. The new cabinet consists of 13 ministers, with nine of them from the previous government, including the First Deputy Prime…

Egypt To “Formally Back” South Africa’s ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel

CAIRO, May 13 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt announced yesterday that, it will “formally back” South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), over the ongoing Israeli aggression in the besieged Palestinian Gaza Strip. Egypt’s announcement came, in light of Israel’s “continued perpetration of systematic practices against…