5,000 Syrian refugees to benefit from 1,000 tents purchased by MAPIM

ANKARA, Turkey — Civil Defense Special Force (PASPA) Search and Rescue Department Capt (PA) Rageshwaran Maniam (right) and Terengganu Disaster Operations Capt (PA) Abdullah Sabaruddin (left) looking at the tents manufactured by Turk Kizilayi following a MoU signed between the Malaysian Consultative Consultation of Islamic Organization (MAPIM) and Turk Kizilayi…

Sudanese military to possibly announce a new government, says source

KHARTOUM, April 11 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The Sudanese military will possibly announce the creation of the country’s new governing body led by the army soon, reported Sputnik news agency, quoting a military source on Thursday. Earlier in the day, the Sudanese media reported that the army had decided at an emergency…

Cuba enacts new constitution in three decades

HAVANA, April 11 (NNN-BERNAMA-XINHUA) — Cuba’s parliament passed a new Magna Carta on Wednesday which says keeping socialism is irrevocable, reported Xinhua news agency. The new constitution, passed by 589 MPs attending the Second Extraordinary Session of the parliament, also recognizes property rights and free enterprise, including those of foreign…

Update: EHT reveals first image of a black hole amid excitement worldwide

https://twitter.com/EU_Commission/status/1115974636892770305 BRUSSELS, April 11 (NNN) — The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a global collaboration, working on establishing the existence of a black hole as theorised in the science and astronomy world, today revealed the first actual image of a black hole in the cosmos. As expected, it was an exciting…

Benjamin Netanyahu wins Israel’s election

JERESULAM, April 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Isreal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has all but secured a 5th term on Wednesday, after more than 95 percent of the votes gave the right-wing bloc a 10-seat lead over the left. Netanyahu’s Likud tied with Benny Gantz’s Kahol Lavan party with 35 seats each.…

Israel poll results ‘thwart prospects for peace’: PLO

RAMALLAH, April 10 (NNN-ANADOLU) — The results of Tuesday’s general election in Israel will only serve to “thwart prospects for peace”, according to Hanan Ashrawi, a prominent member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s Executive Committee. In a Wednesday statement, the veteran Palestinian politician asserted that the poll results had…

EHT set to release first actual images of a black hole

KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 (NNN) — The world will get to see for the first time actual images of a black hole, one of the most mystifying phenomena in the universe, thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which will present its first results in multiple simultaneous press conferences around…

India’s GE all set to take off Thursday

By R.Ravichandran and Nur Ashikin Abdul Aziz KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 (NNN-BERNAMA) —  The world’s largest democracy – India – will go to the polls starting Thursday, pitting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) against Rahul Gandhi’s Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) for the 17th…

Curfew in seven Sabah districts extended till April 26

KOTA KINABALU (Sabah, Malaysia)  April 10 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The  dusk-to dawn curfew in the waters of seven districts  in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (Esszone) which ends Thursday, has been extended to April 26, Sabah police commissioner Omar Mammah said in a statement here Wednesday. The seven districts are Tawau, Semporna,…

Azerbaijan and Malaysia share the same values, says envoy

By R.Ravichandran KUALA LUMPUR,  April 10 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Azerbaijan and Malaysia share many similarities with regards to ethnic diversity, religious tolerance and multiculturalism in a world that is increasingly being polarised by ethnic and religious divisions, said its ambassador to Malaysia Prof Dr Qaley Allahverdiyev. Allahverdiyev said the two Muslim countries and its people also share the values…