No Nobel Awarding Ceremony In 2020 Due To Pandemic

STOCKHOLM, Sept 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) – There will be no traditional Nobel Awarding Ceremony in Stockholm this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Swedish media reported. The Nobel Foundation’s Executive Director, Lars Heikensten, was quoted by Swedish Television (SVT) yesterday as saying that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there would be…

Sri Lanka Calls On UN To Emphasize On Non-Interference In Domestic Affairs Of Other States

COLOMBO, Sept 23 (NNN-SLNEWS) – Sri Lankan President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, called upon the United Nations to place due emphasis on non-interference in domestic affairs of other states, in his address to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations. In a recorded statement at the high-level meeting, to commemorate the…

UNICEF Urges Re-Opening Of Schools In Eastern, Southern Africa

CAPE TOWN, Sept 23 (NNN-BUANEWS) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), called on governments, parents, and teachers across Eastern and Southern Africa, to urgently and safely re-open schools, as the costs of continued school closures escalate across the region. Across this region of the nearly 65 million children remaining…

Tropical Storm Noul Leaves 11 Dead In Cambodia

PHNOM PENH, Sept 22 (NNN-AKP) – The impact of tropical storm Noul has left 11 people dead and one missing in Cambodia, a disaster control spokesman said on Monday. National Committee for Disaster Management spokesman, Khun Sokha, said, heavy rain, strong wind and lightning began on Sept 17-20, as a…

Update: Two Killed, 20 Wounded As Floods Hit Indonesian Capital

JAKARTA, Sept 22 (NNN-ANTARA) – The Floods and landslides that struck Jakarta and its surrounding areas, have left two people dead, one missing and 20 others injured, officials said today. A river overflowed its banks due to torrential rains since yesterday, and submerged surrounding areas in the capital, which has…

Road Accident Kills Seven In Pakistan’s Punjab Province

ISLAMABAD, Sept 22 (NNN-PPI) – A road accident in Pakistan’s east Punjab province, left seven people killed and over a dozen others injured, police and rescue teams said. The accident happened on Monday, in the province’s Chakwal district, where a van carrying over 20 people, met the accident at a…

Three Missing, 20 Wounded As Floods Hit Indonesian Capital

JAKARTA, Sept 22 (NNN-ANTARA) – Flash floods and landslides struck Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, and its surrounding areas, leaving three people missing and 20 others injured, a disaster agency official said today. Torrential rains since yesterday triggered a river to overflow and submerged surrounding areas in the capital, which has recently…

Pilot Killed After Trainer Aircraft Crashes In India’s Uttar Pradesh

NEW DELHI, Sept 22 (NNN-PTI) – A pilot was killed yesterday, after his trainer aircraft crashed, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, police said. The aircraft crashed near Kushwapurawa village, in Azamgarh district, about 260 km east of Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh. “A four-seater training…

Five Pro-Gov’t Fighters Killed In Explosion In East Syria

DAMASCUS, Sept 21 (NNN-SANA) – Five pro-government fighters were killed in a blast, in the eastern province of Deir al-Zour in Syria, a war monitor reported. The five fighters were killed by a landmine explosion, that targeted their vehicle a day earlier, in a desert region in the western countryside…

Nine Soldiers, Police Killed In Taliban Ambush In N. Afghanistan

TALUQAN, Afghanistan, Sept 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Six Afghan army soldiers and three police officers were killed, and four security force members wounded, in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province, last night, a provincial government spokesman confirmed today.– NNN-AGENCIES
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