Ethiopia’s Ruling Coalition Confirms National election next year

ADIS ABABA, Aug 11 (NNN-TELESUR) – Ethiopia’s ruling coalition said Friday it will hold a national election next year, defying worries over security and displacement in the nation that had led some to speculate the election might be postponed. Ethiopia’s ruling coalition said Friday it will hold a national election next year, defying…

At least 60 killed in fuel tanker explosion in Tanzania

DODOMA, Aug 11 (NNN-ANADOLU) – At least 60 people were killed and dozens injured Saturday after a fuel tanker exploded in Tanzania’s northern Morogoro town, according to local media. Morogoro Regional Police Commander Wilbroad Mutafungwa confirmed the death toll in the East African country, The Citizen news website reported. Mutafungwa…

US deploys more military, logistics equipment in Syria

HASAKAH, Syria, Aug 11 (NNN-ANADOLU) –The U.S continues to dispatch military and logistics equipment to the terrorist YPG/PKK-occupied area the east of Euphrates River in Syria.  An Anadolu Agency footage recorded late Friday the fresh U.S. delivery through the Semelka border gate at the Iraq-Syria border. After passing through the northeast of Syria, the…

Rains pound South India; Kerala worst hit with 42 dead

CHENNAI,Thiruvananthapuram/Bengaluru/ Aug 10 (NNN-PTI) – The flood situation in South India continued to remain grim on Saturday,with Kerala being the worst hit as rains,coupled with landslides left 42 dead and nearly 1.25 lakh people displaced. The monsoon fury continued unabated in Karnataka and in neighbouring Tamil Nadu, with the latter pressing…

Haftar agrees to UN call for truce in Libya

TRIPOLI. Aug 11 (NNN-ANADOLU) –Khalifa Haftar, leader of eastern Libyan forces, accepted Saturday the UN call for ceasefire in the capital Tripoli on the occasion of the Eid al-Adha, a Muslim religious holiday. Ahmad al-Mesmari, a spokesman for Haftar forces, told a press conference in the city of Benghazi that commander Haftar accepted the…

N.K. says inter-Korean contact difficult until Seoul gives ‘plausible excuse’ for military drill with U.S.

SEOUL, Aug 11 (NNnn-Yonhap) — North Korea said Sunday it won’t even hold contact with South Korea, let alone dialogue, unless Seoul gives a “plausible excuse” over its ongoing military exercise with the United States, calling it an “aggressive war exercise against” the North. Kwon Jong-gun, North Korean foreign ministry’s…

U.S. billionaire Epstein dies by suicide in New York jail

NEW YORK, Aug 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — Jeffrey Epstein, the U.S. billionaire who was charged with sex trafficking of minors last month, was found dead by suicide in a New York jail, local media reported Saturday. Epstein, 66, hung himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan before his body was…

Yemen conflict: Southern separatists seize control of Aden

SANA’A, Aug 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Secessionists who are seeking independence for southern Yemen on Saturday seized the presidential palace in Aden from forces of the Saudi-backed government and tightened control of the southern port city, local sources and media said. Since Wednesday, fighting has raged in Aden between government troops and…

Libya’s warring sides agree on temporary truce in Tripoli battle

BENGHAZI, Libya, Aug 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Rival Libyan forces on Saturday said they had agreed to a temporary truce proposed by the United Nations during the upcoming Muslim Eid al-Adha. Khalifa Haftar, the commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), agreed to the UN-proposed truce on Saturday, according to LNA official…

India’s Kashmir move challenged in top court as curfew eased again

JAMMu, Aug 10 (NNN-PTI) The NC on Saturday reiterated its demand of lifting siege on Jammu and Kashmir and releasing its party leaders including president Farooq Abdullah and vice president Omar Abdullah from “continued detention” after “robbing” of the special entity of the state. The Centre had on August 5 revoked…