Slovenia Pledges Additional Four Million Euros To Support UNRWA

LJUBLJANA, Sept 3 (NNN-STA) – Slovenia will provide an additional four million euros (4.66 million U.S. dollars), to support the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), between 2025 and 2028, the country’s Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs said, yesterday. The agreement…

Russia’s New Car Sales Down 25 Percent In First Eight Months Of Year

MOSCOW, Sept 3 (NNN-TASS) – Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, reported yesterday that, sales of new cars in the country fell 25 percent, in the Jan-Aug period, this year. According to the ministry, the sales of new cars in Russia totalled 877,600 units, including passenger cars, light commercial vehicles…

Iranian Security Official Says Path For Talks With U.S. Not Closed

TEHRAN, Sept 3 (NNN-IRNA) – A senior Iranian security official, said yesterday, the path for nuclear negotiations with the United States is not closed. Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, made the remarks in a post on social media platform X, while elaborating on Tehran’s conditions for…

Former Czech PM Babis Cancels Campaign Events Following Attack

PRAGUE, Sept 2 (NNN-CTK) – Former Czech Prime Minister, Andrej Babis, said last night that, he is cancelling his election campaign programme for today, after being attacked during a rally. “Tomorrow (today), I’ll be waiting for further evaluation of the test results, but the doctors have recommended rest, so unfortunately,…

Gems in socks and underwear: A Tunisian man and a boy nabbed with US$11.6m haul in Paris

A general view of the Gare de Lyon station where the arrest was made PARIS, Sept 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man and a boy have been arrested in Paris with a haul of jewellery worth an estimated 10 million euros (about US$11,689,881), the prosecutor’s office said on Sunday. The Parisien…

Spain strengthens support for Palestine and Solidarity Flotilla

MADRID, Sept 1 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Spain strengthened its support for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide, while reiterating its commitment to a peaceful two-state solution in the Middle East. As a solidarity flotilla set sail from Barcelona for Gaza, Spain’s Second Vice President and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Diaz, called…

UN chief calls for justice and ‘real change’ for people of African descent

Protestors take part in a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Paris, France UNITED NATIONS, Sept 1 (NNN-KBC) — On the International Day for People of African Descent, celebrated each year on Aug 31, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for justice, dignity and equality for people of African descent around…

At least 70 killed in capsize of migrant boat off West Africa, Gambia says

Atlantic migration route from the coast of West Africa is one of the deadliest in the world BANJUL, Sept 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 70 people were killed when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of West Africa, Gambia’s foreign affairs ministry said, in one of the deadliest…

Ukraine: Pres Zelenskyy says suspect arrested in murder of former parliamentary speaker Parubiy

Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in a street in Lviv on Saturday LVIV (Ukraine), Sept 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A suspect in the fatal shooting of prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy has been arrested, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The 54-year-old parliamentarian was killed by an attacker posing as…

Norway sinkhole swallows motorway and railway, killing one

OSLO, Aug 31 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An enormous sinkhole in Norway engulfed a portion of motorway and railway tracks, killing one person, authorities said on Saturday. The hole, spanning several dozen metres, affected both lanes of the E6 motorway and the tracks running alongside the road in the town of Levanger,…
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