Prabowo Subianto Wins 2024 Indonesian Presidential Election

JAKARTA, Mac 21 (NNN-ANTARA) – Presidential and vice-presidential candidate pair, Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka, won Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election, the country’s General Elections Commission (KPU) announced, yesterday. According to the official counts released by KPU, Prabowo-Gibran received 96,214,691 votes, beating the Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar pair who got 40,971,906…

After 20 Years, Iraqis Still Suffer From Impact Of U.S. Use Of Banned Weapons

BAGHDAD, Mac 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – Twenty years after the U.S. military offensive in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, locals are still suffering from the lasting impacts of the use of internationally banned weapons by U.S. forces. In Apr, 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched an offensive in Fallujah, 50 km west…

Stormy, Snowy Weather Expected Across Japan: Weather Agency

TOKYO, Mac 20 (NNN-NHK) – Japan’s weather agency, today said, strong winds and high waves are expected across the country, and warned of heavy snow along mountainous areas. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said, winds are intensifying, mainly in western and eastern Japan, due to the influence of a low-pressure…

Explosion In Pakistan Coal Mine Kills 12 Miners

ISLAMABAD, Mac 20 (NNN-APP) – Twelve miners were killed and eight others rescued, after an explosion in a coal mine in south-western Pakistan, officials said today. “The rescue operation has been just completed,” said Balochistan province’s chief inspector of mines, Abdul Ghani Baloch, this morning. He said that, 20 miners…

10 Automakers In S. Korea Fined For Selling Cars With Subpar Safety Standard

SEOUL, Mac 20 (NNN-YONHAP) – Ten automakers in South Korea were fined for selling cars with subpar safety standard, the transport ministry here said, today. A total of 10.26 billion won (7.7 million U.S. dollars) in fines was imposed on the country’s biggest carmaker Hyundai Motor, and nine foreign companies,…

Doctors’ Strike Enters Sixth Day In Kenya

NAIROBI, Mac 20 (NNN-KBC) – Kenyan doctors have sustained their work boycott across the country, as the industrial action entered its sixth day yesterday. The health workers started the boycott on Mac 14, accusing the government of failing to address their grievances, including a demand to post 4,000 interns to…

Netanyahu Rejects U.S. Plea To Halt Rafah Attack, Agrees To Talk In Washington

JERUSALEM, Mac 20 (NNN-XINHUA) – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday, rejected the U.S. call to cancel a ground operation in Rafah city, where about 1.5 million displaced Palestinians resided, but agreed to send a delegation to Washington for discussions. The White House confirmed in a statement that Netanyahu and…

Brazil Registers Record Cases Of Dengue This Year

SAO PAULO, Mac 20 (NNN-CMA) – Brazil has registered a record 1,889,206 suspected cases of dengue so far this year, with 561 deaths, the health ministry said. In face of surging dengue cases, a health emergency was declared by South America’s largest city, Sao Paulo, following a wave of the…

Libya Produced Over 33.5 Million Barrels Of Oil In Feb

TRIPOLI, Mac 20 (NNN-LANA) – Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC), said yesterday, the country produced more than 33.5 million barrels of crude oil in Feb. The company said via its Facebook account that, the country last month produced 515,461 tonnes of petroleum products and 110,729 tonnes of petrochemicals. The…

Russia To Promote Tourism Overseas Under Brand “Discover Russia”

ST. PETERSBURG, Mac 20 (NNN-TASS) – Russia will promote tourism abroad, under the unified brand “Discover Russia,” which is currently being tested in overseas markets, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development announced, yesterday. In a statement released by the ministry, Nikita Kondratyev, director of the Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation…