Two Killed, 125 Injured As Quakes shook west Afghanistan

HERAT, Afghanistan, Oct 16 (NNN-ANA) – Two were dead and 125 injured people have been taken to hospital, following tremors in west Afghanistan’s Herat province yesterday, said Farhad Afzali, a medical doctor at the Herat hospital. However, locals say, two tremors which, in a span of minutes, rocked Herat and…

Syria To Resume Air Traffic At Aleppo Airport Following Israeli Attack

DAMASCUS, Oct 16 (NNN-SANA) – Syria’s Transport Ministry announced yesterday, the resumption of air traffic at the airport of the northern province of Aleppo, after the damage caused by the latest Israeli missile attack was fixed. In a statement, the ministry said, the airport will resume its operation today, after…

Egypt Calls For More Financial Support To Maintain Social Protection

MARRAKESH, Oct 16 (NNN-MAP) – The Egyptian government is seeking to obtain new financial support, to maintain social protection and improve the standard of living, especially for the most vulnerable groups. Egypt is facing worsening economic conditions, amid scarcity of foreign reserves and high inflation rates. In the World Economic…

Iraq Signed Deals With UAE Firm To Develop Three Oil, Gas Fields

BAGHDAD, Oct 16 (NNN-NINA) – Iraq signed three contracts yesterday, with the United Arab Emirates’ Crescent Petroleum, to develop three oil and gas fields in the eastern and southern regions of the country, the Iraqi Oil Ministry said. The ministry said in a statement that, the deals would help Iraq…

Egypt Discovers 3,400-Year-Old Cemetery In Minya

MINYA, Egypt, Oct 16 (NNN-MENA) – A cemetery, dating back to the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt, was unearthed at Tuna El-Gebel necropolis, in southern Egypt’s Minya governorate, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced, yesterday. The cemetary, dating back about 3,400 years to ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom, belonged…

Seven Members Of Same Family Killed In South India Road Accident

NEW DELHI, Oct 16 (NNN-PTI) – As many as seven members of a family, including a woman and two children, died in a road accident, in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu yesterday, confirmed a local government official. The car carrying the victims collided head-on with a truck, in Tamil…

Air Quality In Parts Of Delhi Turns To Poor Category As Winter Sets In

NEW DELHI, Oct 16 (NNN-PTI) – The Air Quality Index (AQI) in some parts of Delhi and its surrounding areas, has turned to the poor category as winter slowly begins to set in, in north India, despite claims made by the Delhi state government that, efforts were being made to…

Six Terrorists, Soldier Killed In Clash With Security Forces In NW Pakistan: Military

ISLAMABAD, Oct 16 (NNN-APP) – At least six terrorists and a soldier were killed on Saturday, during a clash between security forces and terrorists in North Waziristan district of Pakistan’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said. The security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in the Mir Ali area of…

Hezbollah Fighter, Two Citizens Killed In Israeli Attacks In S. Lebanon

BEIRUT, Oct 15 (NNN-NNA) – A fighter with Hezbollah, a Lebanese military group, was killed in Israeli attacks that targeted the Shebaa Farms yesterday afternoon, a statement by the Shiite group reported. A Lebanese and his wife were killed, after several Israeli artillery shells targeted their house, on the outskirts…

Turkish Drone Attack Killed Three Kurdish Militants In N. Iraq

BAGHDAD, Oct 15 (NNN-NINA) – A Turkish drone strike in northern Iraq yesterday, killed a senior member and two militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Counter-Terrorism Service of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region said, in a statement. They were killed at 5:30 p.m. local time (1430 GMT), when a…