UN Official Raises Alarm As Humanitarian Crisis In Gaza Keeps Worsening

GENEVA, Dec 8 (NNN-XINHUA) – The current humanitarian programme in Gaza “is no longer functioning well,” said head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at a press conference here yesterday. Martin Griffiths expressed his grave concerns, saying, the relentless military assault has obliterated the once-established…

Israeli Army Arrests Dozens Of Palestinians In Gaza

GAZA, Dec 8 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Israeli army arrested, yesterday, dozens of Palestinians, during its incursion into the town of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, said Palestinian sources. Palestinian security sources told Xinhua that, Israeli troops made the arrests during their storming of residential neighbourhoods in Beit Lahia.…

UN School Attacked By Israeli Army In Gaza: UN Agency

GAZA, Dec 8 (NNN-XINHUA) – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), yesterday accused the Israeli army of directly targeting a UN school-converted shelter, in the Gaza Strip. In a press statement to Xinhua, the UN agency said that, its school in…

Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force Seized Over 400 Kg Drugs, Seven Arrested

ISLAMABAD, Dec 8 (NNN-APP) – Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), conducted multiple operations in different areas of the country, recovering over 400 kg of drugs and arresting seven suspects, the ANF said, yesterday. During the anti-narcotics operations, the ANF recovered drugs, including opium, hashish, heroin, methamphetamine and others, the ANF said…

World’s 1st 4th-Generation Nuclear Power Plant Goes Into Commercial Operation In China

BEIJING, Dec 7 (NNN-XINHUA) – The world’s first fourth-generation nuclear power plant, China’s Shidaowan high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) nuclear power plant, has officially gone into commercial operation, according to the National Energy Administration and China Huaneng Group, yesterday. The project, located in Shandong Province and with China owning fully…

Indonesia’s Ibu Volcano Erupts, Ash Up To 1,200 Metres

JAKARTA, Dec 7 (NNN-ANTARA) – The Ibu volcano on Halmahera Island, in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku, erupted at around 11.00 a.m. local time today, for about 90 seconds, throwing ash up to 1,200 metres above its peak, according to the country’s Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard…

China-Laos Railway Records Over 100,000 Cross-Border Passengers

KUNMING, Dec 7 (NNN-XINHUA) – The China-Laos Railway, which launched its international passenger service on Apr 13, has transported over 100,000 cross-border passengers, as of Tuesday, the Mohan border checkpoint said. Some 14,900 of those passengers were foreigners, according to Mohan’s entry-exit frontier inspection station, on the China-Laos border. The…

Japan Passes Bill To Legalise Medical Use Of Cannabis

TOKYO, Dec 7 (NNN-NHK) – Japan’s parliament approved a bill yesterday, to legalise cannabis-derived medical products, while criminalising the use of the chemical, other than for medicinal purposes. The upper house of the National Diet of Japan, passed the revised cannabis and narcotics control laws during the day, which will…

Japan PM Kishida To Quit As Ruling Party Faction Leader

TOKYO, Dec 7 (NNN-NHK) – Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, will step down as chief of his faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), amid a growing slush funds scandal, local media reported, today. Kishida, also president of the LDP, is set to announce his resignation as the leader…

Police Discover Drug Lab In W. Afghanistan

FARAH, Afghanistan, Dec 7 (NNN-ANA) – Police have discovered and smashed a drug lab in west Afghanistan’s Farah province, a statement by the provincial counter-narcotics police, said today. Contrabands were discovered in the provincial capital, Farah city, recently and police found huge quantity of the objects used in manufacturing heroin,…