Schools, Metro Stations Shut After Violence In Indian Capital

NEW DELHI, Dec 16 (NNN-PTI) – Schools and Delhi Metro services have been shut, in various parts of southeast Delhi, in the wake of Sunday evening’s intense violence. Violent mobs set ablaze various buses belonging to the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) on Sunday evening, even as thousands of people indulged…

23 Security Troops, 54 Protesters Injured In Clashes In Lebanon

BEIRUT, Dec 16 (NNN-NNA) – 23 security troops and 54 protesters were injured, during clashes from Saturday midnight until early Sunday morning, a local media outlet reported, citing internal security forces. Protesters attempted to break into parliament, in downtown Beirut, by pushing through steel barriers, prompting riot police and security…

Third World Youth Forum opens in Egypt

SHARM EL SHEIKH, Dec 15 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, inaugurated on Saturday, the third edition of Egypt’s annual World Youth Forum (WYF), at the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, with several topics to be thoroughly discussed, during the four-day international event. “From the blessed lands…

Turkey Urges More EU Funding For Syrian Refugees

ISTANBUL, Dec 15 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey called on the European Union, to increase funding for Syrian refugees being sheltered on Turkish land. “As long as the migration crisis is there, we have to continue to cooperate, and we have to work together,” said Faruk Kaymakci, deputy minister of foreign affairs…

Random Shelling Hits Local Farms In Yemen’s Hodeidah

ADEN, Dec 15 (NNN-SABA) – Random shelling, launched by fighters of the Houthi rebel group, targeted farms in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, on Saturday. “The rebels used various types of heavy weapons and shells, causing large damage to local farmers’ properties in Tuhyata district of Hodeidah,” local…

Uzbek Senate Approves Law To Protect Investors’ Rights

TASHKENT, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Uzbek Senate approved a new law that guarantees legal protection of investors’ rights, in the Special Economic Zones (SEZ). The law strengthens protection of rights of investors, including from unreasonable interference by the state and other bodies or officials, in their activities, the press service…

Iran Rules Out Talks On Restoration Of Diplomatic Ties With U.S.

TEHRAN, Dec 15 (NNN-IRNA) – Spokesman for Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), played down the likelihood of restoration of diplomatic ties with the United States, through prisoner swap. Keyvan Khosravi, spokesman for SNSC, said, prisoner swap between Iran and the U.S. is not the start of “any new path”…

Ugandan President Reshuffles Cabinet

KAMPALA, Dec 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, reshuffled his cabinet, dropping some ministers and appointing new ones. Museveni maintained most of the ministers. He also maintained the vice president, prime minister, ministers of defence and foreign affairs, and minister of finance, among others. The president reassigned some ministers…

Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa Urges Enhanced Productivity To Grow Economy

HARARE, Dec 15 (NNN-XINHUA) – Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, urged Zimbabweans to work hard and increase land production to grow the economy. In his closing remarks, at the end of the five-day 18th annual National Peoples’ Conference of the ruling ZANU-PF party, in Goromonzi, Masonaland East Province, the president called…

UN Security Council Calls For Restraint In Violence-Hit Iraq

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 15 (NNN-NINA) – The UN Security Council called for maximum restraint and urged all to refrain from violence or the destruction of critical infrastructure in demonstrations in Iraq. The Security Council members expressed “grave concern” at the loss of life of those demonstrating and at the killing,…
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