Rain Helps Alleviate Drought In New South Wales

VICTORIA, Jan 11 (NNN-XINHUA) – Weather brings relief to New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, but fire danger is far from over. Residents in most of Victoria’s bushfire-stricken areas are welcoming an extended reprieve, after the latest threat appears to have wrought less carnage than feared, as just a man…

Libya and Iran top agenda in Merkel-Putin meeting

MOSCOW/BERLIN, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Confrontation between Washington and Tehran over the US killing of a top general and turmoil in Libya are set to dominate talks in Moscow on Saturday between the leaders of Russia and Germany. Russia’s Vladimir Putin will hold talks with German Chancellor AngelaMerkel in Moscow…

15 Die In Road Mishap In North India

NEW DELHI, Jan 11 (NNN-PTI) – At least 15 people died and more than 25 injured, in a mishap involving a passenger bus and a truck, late on Friday night, in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh, confirmed a local police official. The passengers died due to burn injuries, after…

Iran plane crash: ‘More time needed for investigation’ – Ukraine

Iran says the data from the “black box” will be analysed at home, but Ukraine wants to do this in Kyiv  KIEV, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) —It is too soon to draw any conclusions on what brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane in Iran on Wednesday, Ukraine’s foreign minister has said. “We…

Ottawa lowers Canadian death toll in Iran air crash to 57

OTTAWA, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada on Friday lowered the number of its citizens killed in the crash of a jetliner in Iran from 63 to 57. “This is based on additional information we had about birth dates andcomparing the travel documents that people were travelling on when theyboarded the…

Over 100 Indonesian Nationals With Alleged Terrorist Links Remain In Syria: Minister

JAKARTA, Jan 11 (NNN-ANTARA) – Over 100 Indonesian nationals, who allegedly have linkages with terrorist activities in Syria, are still in the Middle East country, and the government is mulling repatriating some of them. “We have many FTF’s (foreign terrorist fighters). We must return them home. In Syria, there are…

US Pres Trump says China trade deal may be signed shortly after Jan 15

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump, who announced last month that the Phase 1 trade deal with China would be signed on Jan 15, said the agreement could be signed “shortly thereafter.” In an interview with the ABC TV affiliate in Toledo, Ohio, Trump said: “We’re going…

US rolls out new Iran sanctions after airstrikes

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin jointly announced a new raft of economic sanctions against several senior Iranian officials and major companies. The financial penalties came as a response to Iranian airstrikes against US bases in Iraq, which were in…

Iran Nuclear Deal Must Be Respected: French FM

PARIS, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) – All parties must respect the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and resort to diplomacy and negotiations, when resolving the latest Middle East tensions, the French foreign minister said on Friday. “The best way (to defuse tensions) is diplomacy, negotiations and respect of (the) agreement,” said Jean-Yves…

Mozambique to extradite suspected Pakistani drug baron to US

Mozambique flag MAPUTO, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mozambique has agreed to extradite a Pakistani citizen and suspected drug baron to the United States.Tanveer Ahmed, also known as “Galby”, will be tried at a district court in south Texas and if found guilty of drug trafficking could face a sentence of…
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