India, Canada Held Talks To Boost Trade, Investment Ties

NEW DELHI, Nov 14 (NNN-PTI) – India and Canada held talks yesterday, to discuss ways to boost trade, promote investment, and deepen bilateral cooperation, officials said. The two sides discussed the issues at the 7th India-Canada Ministerial Dialogue on Trade and Investment, here. “The meeting marked a renewed phase of…

Illegal Israeli Settlers Set Fire To West Bank Mosque, Leave Hateful Graffiti

RAMALLAH, Nov 14 (NNN-WAFA) – Illegal Israeli settlers, set fire to a mosque, north-west of Salfit, in the West Bank yesterday, and wrote anti-Islam slogans on its walls, the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s Commission Against the Wall and Settlements said, in a brief statement. The settlers poured flammable material at the…

Cambodia, Singapore Launched Cross-Border QR Code Payment Connection

PHNOM PENH, Nov 14 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia and Singapore launched the first phase of cross-border QR code payment connection, said a press release, from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) yesterday. NBC’s Governor, Chea Serey, presided over the launch event, on the sidelines of the Singapore Fintech Festival 2025 in…

U.S. Longest Gov’t Shutdown Ends With Governance Problems Lingering

WASHINGTON, Nov 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – The record-breaking U.S. federal government shutdown ends, after the congressional approval of a spending package on Wednesday. However, as bipartisan power struggles show no sign of alleviating, the recurrence of this shutdown remains highly possible within just two months. The U.S. House of Representatives voted…

U.S. Weather Agency Issued Severe Geomagnetic Storm Warning

LOS ANGELES, Nov 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), issued a warning for a severe geomagnetic storm through today, following the arrival of a major coronal mass ejection (CME). According to NOAA, solar activity on Tuesday, produced an X5.1-class solar flare associated with a CME,…

Two Killed, 18 Injured In S. Korea Market Truck Sidewalk Crash

SEOUL, Nov 13 (NNN-YONHAP) – Two people were killed and 18 others were injured today, after a truck crashed into the sidewalk, at a market in South Korea. The truck, driven by a man in his 60s, plowed into the sidewalk at the market in Bucheon, west of the capital,…

Bosnian Authorities Seized 270,000-USD-Worth Smuggled Mobile Phones

SARAJEVO, Nov 13 (NNN-SRNA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Indirect Taxation Authority (ITA), seized a large quantity of smuggled mobile phones and other goods worth 450,000 convertible marks (266,700 U.S. dollars), the authority said, yesterday. Officials from the ITA’s Enforcement Department, and the Tuzla Regional Centre, discovered earlier this week, a…

ADB Approves 300 Million USD Loan To Boost Inclusive Finance In Uzbekistan

MANILA, Nov 13 (NNN-PNA) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB), said yesterday that, it has approved a 300-million-U.S.-dollar policy-based loan, to support Uzbekistan’s efforts, to expand access to finance for underserved micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises. The loan represents Subprogramme 2 of the ADB’s Inclusive Finance Sector Development Programme, which…

Kenyan Jurist Okowa Elected Judge Of Int’l Court Of Justice

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – Kenyan jurist, Phoebe Okowa, was elected a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) yesterday, to fill the seat vacated by Somalia’s Abdulqawi Yusuf, who resigned effective Sept 30. Okowa will serve the remainder of Yusuf’s term, which runs until Feb 5, 2027.…

Russia’s Seaport Cargo Turnover Down 1.5 Percent In First 10 Months

MOSCOW, Nov 13 (NNN-TASS) – Cargo turnover at Russian seaports reached 732.6 million tonnes, in the January-October period, down 1.5 percent from a year earlier, the Association of Commercial Sea Ports said, Tuesday. Dry cargo volumes fell 2.1 percent year on year, to 362.9 million tonnes, while liquid cargo declined…