Nearly Half Of Australians Hit By Wild Weather During Summer: Report

SYDNEY, Mac 19 (NNN-AAP) – A new report has estimated that 47 percent of Australians were hit by wild weather conditions in summer, with record heatwaves, intense storms, and cyclones sweeping through the country during the season. In the latest edition of the Wild Weather Tracker report, released today, a…

Pakistani Forces Carry Out Anti-Terrorist Operations Inside Afghanistan: Pakistani Foreign Ministry

ISLAMABAD, Mac 19 (NNN-APP) – Pakistani forces, yesterday morning, carried out intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations in the border regions inside Afghanistan, Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. “The target of the operation was the terrorists belonging to Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, which, along with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), is responsible…

Second Batch Of Indian Military Personnel To Withdraw From Maldives By Apr 10

MALÉ, Mac 19 (NNN-IPS) – The Second batch of Indian military troops will leave Maldives on Apr 10, the Maldives Foreign Ministry said in a statement, at the third meeting of the High-Level Core Group between the Maldives and India, held on Mac 17, in Malé. The Maldives Foreign Ministry…

China, New Zealand Pledge Efforts To Further Strengthen Relations

WELLINGTON, Mac 19 (NNN-RNZ) – Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, and New Zealand Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, met here yesterday, with both sides pledging further efforts to strengthen cooperation and relations. Wang, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee,…

UN Chief Calls On Israel To Ensure Gaza Humanitarian Access

UNITED NATIONS, Mac 19 (NNN-XINHUA) – UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, yesterday, called on the Israeli authorities to ensure complete and unfettered access for humanitarian goods throughout Gaza. Guterres made the plea after the latest acute food insecurity analysis for Gaza, warns that famine in the northern part of Gaza is…

Iraqi Kurdish Party To Boycott Regional Parliamentary Elections

BAGHDAD, Mac 19 (NNN-NINA) – The Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), announced yesterday, its decision to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections, in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, citing the “unconstitutional” amendments, issued by the Federal Supreme Court, regarding the regional parliamentary elections law. The KDP, the main party in northern Iraq’s…

Israeli Soldier Killed In Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital Raid

GAZA, Mac 19 (NNN-WAFA) – An Israeli soldier was killed, during the regime army’s raid on the Al-Shifa complex in Gaza City yesterday, the Israeli military said. According to Israeli public radio, the soldier was a sergeant from the Hanahl Brigade, whose death brings the total number of Israeli fatalities…

World Bank To Provide Six-Billion-USD Support To Egypt: Minister

CAIRO, Mac 19 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation, Rania Al-Mashat, said yesterday that, the World Bank Group (WBG) will offer a financing package for the Egyptian economy, worth six billion U.S. dollars for the next three years. In a statement, the Egyptian minister said, the WBG intends to…

Death Toll Rises To 10 From Bangladesh’s Last Week’s Cylinder Blast

DHAKA, Mac 19 (NNN-BSS) – The death toll from last week’s gas cylinder explosion in Gazipur, on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, has hit 10, with four more injured succumbing to their injuries, an official said yesterday. The victims died in the Intensive Care Unit of the Sheikh Hasina…

DPRK Top Leader Guides Artillery Firing Drill

PYONGYANG, Mac 19 (NNN-KCNA) – The top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), guided a firing drill by the country’s super-large multiple rocket launcher battery, yesterday, the first company-level salvo firing demonstration of the powerful weapon.– NNN-KCNA