Kuwait Calls For Utmost Restraint Over Developments In Iraq

KUWAIT CITY, Jan 4 (NNN-KUNA) – Kuwait calls for the utmost restraint, amid the recent developments in Iraq, the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry said, on Friday. The international community should bear its responsibilities, in maintaining security and stability of the region, steering it clear from escalating actions, the ministry said, in…

World Cannot Afford Another Gulf War, Says UN Chief

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, called for deescalation in the Gulf, said his spokesman. “The Secretary-General consistently advocated for deescalation in the Gulf. He is deeply concerned with the recent escalation,” said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for Guterres. “This is a moment in which leaders…

Two giant pandas born in Belgium win “Panda Cub of the Year” Gold Award

BRUSSELS, Jan 4 (NNN-Xinhua) — Bao Di and Bao Mei, the two giant pandas born last year in the Belgian zoo of Pairi Daiza, won the “Panda Cub of the Year” Gold Award on Friday. The ceremony of 2019 Giant Panda Global Awards was held in Pairi Daiza. It was…

Update: Two More Die In Australian Bush-fire

SYDNEY, Australia, Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Australian authorities confirmed that, two more deaths occurred, in the bush-fire, on Kangaroo Island of South Australia, according to News.com.au’s report, on Saturday (today). South Australian Premier, Steven Marshall, told reporters that, it was “very sad” to hear of the latest deaths. According to…

Six Die, 16 Injured After Under-Construction Building Collapses In SW Cambodia

KEP, Cambodia, Jan 4 (NNN-AKP) – Six Cambodian workers died and 16 others injured, after a six-floor guesthouse building, under construction, collapsed, in southwestern Cambodia’s Kep province, on Friday, a provincial spokesman said today (Saturday). “Twenty-two people were pulled out of the debris, but six of them died,” Kep Provincial…

Crisis Group: Djibouti, Eritrea face threats as US-Iran conflict escalates

ASMARA, Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Red Sea strait of Bab el Mandeb, located between Yemen and the African countries of Djibouti and Eritrea is one of the areas that might be on the receiving end of rising escalations between the United States and Iran. In Yemen, the United States…

Turkey Urges U.S., Iran To Refrain From Escalating Tension

ANKARA, Jan 4 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkey called on Iran and the United States to avoid unilateral steps, that would jeopardise regional stability, over the killing of Qasem Soleimani, a commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). “We are deeply concerned about the escalating of the U.S.-Iranian tension in the…

NATO ‘monitoring situation’ after Iran general killed

BRUSSELS, Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The NATO military alliance was monitoring the situation in Iraq closely with an eye to the safety of its training mission there after US forces killed an Iranian general. NATO maintains a limited presence in Iraq ro train government security forces and the alliance was…

Macron, Putin Call For Restraint Following U.S. Killing Of Iranian Commander

PARIS, Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) – French President, Emmanuel Macron, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, called on all parties to exercise restraint, to avoid any new escalation, after the killing of a top Iranian commander in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq. Over a phone call on Friday, Macron and Putin…

Pakistani PM Inaugurates Special Economic Zone Under CPEC

ISLAMABAD, Jan 4 (NNN-APP) – Pakistani Prime Minister, Imran Khan, inaugurated the Allama Iqbal Industrial City, a special economic zone (SEZ), under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), in the east Faisalabad city on Friday, the PM’s office said. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the SEZ, the prime minister termed CPEC…
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