India Flight-Tests Two Pinaka Missiles In Salvo Mode

NEW DELHI, Dec 21 (NNN-PTI) – India successfully carried out flight trials of Pinaka missile system Friday, in the eastern state of Odisha, officials said. The tests were carried out by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), off Chandipur coast, in Balasore district, about…

Kazakhstan Set To Abolish Death Penalty

NUR-SULTAN, Dec 21 (NNN-RIA) – President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, said, he ordered procedures, to abolish the death penalty in the country. Tokayev made the remarks, at the second meeting of the National Council of Public Trust, held in the capital, Nur-Sultan. The council, comprising prominent social activists, deputies of…

60,907 Firearms Removed As Next Stage Gun Control Begins In New Zealand

WELLINGTON, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The six-month firearms buyback and amnesty was officially over, with around 60,907 prohibited firearms removed from circulation, said New Zealand Minister of Police, Stuart Nash, today (Saturday). The objective of gun buyback and amnesty was to make New Zealand a safer place. Assault rifles, high-capacity…

Second Person Died In Catastrophic South Australian Bush-fires

CANBERRA, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) – One more person died and many houses destroyed in bush-fires in South Australia (SA). About 200 fires broke out across the state in catastrophic conditions on Friday, as temperatures soared to 40 degrees Celsius. Authorities on Friday night confirmed that another person died in a…

China slams EU parliament over Uighur sanctions resolution

BEIJING/BRUSSELS, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Beijing on Friday accused the European Parliament of hypocrisy, after a resolution called for targeted sanctions against Chinese officials over the treatment of the Uighur minority. China has faced international condemnation for rounding up an estimated one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities…

Japan’s Cabinet Approves Record 938 Billion USD Draft FY 2020 Budget

TOKYO, Dec 21 (NNN-NHK) – The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, approved a draft budget for fiscal 2020, aimed at covering ballooning social security costs, amid a rapidly ageing society and dealing with the fallout from a consumption tax hike, that has seen private and public consumption wane. The…

US removes Sudan from religious freedom blacklist

A Sudanese Christian woman prays during a Sunday service at the All Saints Cathedral in Khartoum WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States lifted fast-changing Sudan from a blacklist for religious freedom violations as it issued warnings to Nigeria, Cuba and Nicaragua. Sudan was the only nation removed from…

Strong Earthquake Hits Afghanistan, Pakistan, No Casualties Reported So Far

KABUL/ISLAMABAD, Dec 21 (NNN-APP) – A strong earthquake struck Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday, but no casualties have been reported so far. The earthquake hit a number of provinces in northern and eastern Afghanistan, and could be felt in the capital Kabul. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the…

US Pres Trump says had ‘very good talk’ with China’s Pres Xi on trade deal

US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping WASHINGTON/BEIJING, Dec 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump said he’d had a “very good talk” with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on a partial resolution of the countries’ huge trade war. Trump tweeted that China “already started large scale”…

Japan’s Abe, Iran’s Rouhani Discuss Tensions In Middle East

TOKYO, Dec 21 (NNN-XINHUA) – Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, held talks with Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, amid tensions in the Middle East. Rouhani, on a two-day trip to Japan, marking the first for an Iranian president since 2000, heard from Abe about his concerns about rising tension in the…
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