New calls for humanitarian truce in Sudan as peace talks resume in Cairo

Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary RSf CAIRO, Jan 16 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Sudan peace efforts resumed in Cairo as Egypt, the United Nations and the United States called for the warring parties to agree to a nationwide humanitarian truce, as the war between the army and its rival…

Passenger Plane Damaged After Engine Ingested Container At New Delhi Airport

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (NNN-PTI) – An engine of Air India’s new Airbus A350 was damaged yesterday, after it sucked in a cargo container, while it was taxiing, at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) in New Delhi, officials said. All the more than 300 passengers on board the plane are…

13 Terrorists Killed In Clashes With Security Forces In NW Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (NNN-APP) – Thirteen terrorists were killed, in clashes with security forces, in Pakistan’s north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said, yesterday. The security forces conducted operations in Bannu and Kurram districts of the province, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, said,…

221 Afghan Prisoners Released From Pakistani Jails, Return Home

KABUL, Jan 15 (NNN-BNA) – A total of 221 Afghan prisoners have been released from Pakistani jails, over the past week, and have safely returned to Afghanistan, the country’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced, today. The detainees, who had been held across various Pakistani facilities, on charges largely stemming…

Kazakhstan saved nearly 900 million cubic metres of water Last Year

ASTANA, Jan 15 (NNN-KTA) – Kazakhstan saved 874 million cubic metres of water last year, by introducing water-saving technologies in irrigated agriculture, the Kazinform news agency reported today. Water Resources and Irrigation Minister, Nurzhan Nurzhigitov, said, 678 km of irrigation canals were reconstructed, cutting water losses during transport from about…

Kazakh Maritime Transport Giant Posts 15 Percent Growth In Caspian Container Shipments

ALMATY, Jan 15 (NNN-KTA) – Kazakhstan’s maritime transport giant, Kazmortransflot, saw its container shipments across the Caspian Sea up by more than 15 percent last year, the press service of the national oil and gas company KazMunayGas (KMG) reported, yesterday. Last year, KMG’s subsidiary, Kazmortransflot, transported 59,400 twenty-foot equivalent units,…

Chile’s Pres Boric endorsing Bachelet for UN top post beyond his own term

santiago, Jan 15 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chile’s outgoing President Gabriel Boric Font confirmed that his administration would formalize the candidacy of former President Michelle Bachelet for Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN). Boric, who is soon to hand over power to President-elect José Antonio Kast of his political antipodes, said that…

5.5-Magnitude Quake Hit Hokkaido, Japan – GFZ

TOKYO, Jan 15 (NNN-NHK) – An earthquake, with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted Hokkaido, Japan, at 2213 GMT yesterday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicentre, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at 42.81 degrees north latitude, and 145.36 degrees east longitude.–…

UN experts urge US to respect international law over Greenland

GENEVA, Jan 15 (NNN-XINHUA) — United Nations (UN) experts on Wednesday warned that any unilateral attempt to alter Greenland’s status as an autonomous territory of Denmark would not only violate international law, but could also undermine stability in the Arctic region and beyond. In a joint statement, seven UN experts,…

Vietnam’s National Party Congress To Kick Off Next Week

HANOI, Jan 15 (NNN-VNA) – The 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), is scheduled to take place from Jan 19 to Jan 25, in the capital, Hanoi, with the participation of over 1,500 delegates, local media reported, yesterday. The press centre for the congress was officially…
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