Cambodia Urges People To Minimise Direct Exposure To Sun With Soaring Temperature

PHNOM PENH, Apr 28 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia’s Ministry of Health, today called on people, to minimise direct exposure to the sun, as temperature can reach 43 degrees Celsius these days. “People should avoid staying out in the sun for too long without sunshades,” the ministry said in a statement. The…

Vietnam’s National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue Resigns

HANOI, Apr 28 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam’s Communist Party Central Committee, on Friday, accepted the resignation of Vietnam’s National Assembly Chairman, Vuong Dinh Hue, upon his personal request.– NNN-VNA

At Least 22 Palestinians Killed In Gaza By Israeli Airstrikes Yesterday; Total Death Toll: 34,388

GAZA, Apr 28 (NNN-WAFA) – At least 22 Palestinians were killed and several others injured, yesterday due to Israeli airstrikes on central and southern Gaza, according to Palestinian sources. Palestinian security sources said that, Israeli warplanes targeted a populated house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, with a…

At Least 14 Injured In Israeli Airstrike On S. Lebanon

BEIRUT, Apr 28 (NNN-NNA) – At least 14 people were injured yesterday, in an Israeli airstrike on Lebanon’s southern town of Sarbin, Lebanese military sources, said. The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that, an Israeli warplane targeted a house in Sarbin with two air-to-surface missiles, weighing 1,000 pounds each, leading…

China Beat Netherlands In Ice Hockey Men’s World Championship

VILNIUS, Apr 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – China won the first match in the Ice Hockey World Championship Division I-B, beating the Netherlands 3-0, in Lithuania’s capital here, yesterday. After a goalless first period, China’s Hou Yuyang opened the scoring in the second period. In the last period, Zheng Mingju and Zhang…

Four Trampled To Death By Wild Elephant In India’s Assam

NEW DELHI, Apr 28 (NNN-PTI) – At least four people, including two forest officials, were trampled to death, by a wild elephant yesterday, in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, local media reported. The incident took place in Dhiraimajuli area of Sonitpur district, about 147 km north-east of Dispur, the capital…

6.5-Magnitude Earthquake Hit Off Western Indonesia, No Tsunami Alert Issued

JAKARTA, Apr 28 (NNN-ANTARA) – An undersea quake, with a magnitude of 6.5, jolted western Indonesia’s West Java province, last night, without triggering giant waves, the country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency, said. The earthquake occurred at 23:29 Jakarta time (1629 GMT) yesterday, with its epicentre located 151 km south-west…

Three U.S. MQ-9 Reaper Drones, Worth About $30 Million Each, Have Crashed In Or Near Yemen Since Nov

YEMEN, Apr 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – A U.S. Air Force MQ-9 drone crashed in Yemen, early Friday, according to a U.S. military official, who updated earlier information that indicated, it had crashed off the coast. An investigation into the incident is underway. According to the official, there were no reported injuries. …

37 Million Tonnes Of Debris In Gaza Could Take Years To Clear: UN

GENEVA, Apr 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – There are some 37 million tonnes of debris to clear away in Gaza, once the Israeli offensive is over, a senior official with the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said, yesterday. And unexploded ordnance buried in the rubble would complicate that work, said Pehr Lodhammar,…

Yemen’s Houthis Claim Responsibility For Attacks On British Oil Tanker, U.S. Drone

SANAA, Apr 27 (NNN-SABA) – Yemen’s Houthis said early today that, they had launched a missile attack and hit a British oil tanker in the Red Sea, and shot down a U.S. drone in northern Yemen. “Our naval forces (yesterday) targeted a British oil ship, Andromeda Star, in the Red…