Flood Injures Three, Renders Hundreds Homeless In N. Afghanistan

AYBAK, Afghanistan, May 7 (NNN-XINHUA) – Three people were injured and hundreds left homeless, as floods swept through several districts in the northern Samangan province, head of Natural Disaster and Managment Authority in the flood-affected province, Sibghatullah Sayad said. He said, preliminary reports confirm total or partial damage of more…

6.7 Magnitude Quake Strikes Off Eastern Indonesia, No Tsunami Alert Issued

JAKARTA, May 7 (NNN-ANTARA) – An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude, jolted Indonesia’s eastern Maluku province on Wednesday evening (last night), but there was no potential for tsunami, the Meteorology, Climatological and Geophysics Agency said. The quake was initially reported at 7.3 magnitude, said Rudi Teguh, an official from the Agency.…

Syrian Air Defences Respond To Israeli Missile Strike In Aleppo

DAMASCUS, May 5 (NNN-SANA) – Syrian air defences responded to an Israeli strike, in the country’s northern province of Aleppo on Monday. The missile strike targeted the Scientific Research Centre in Sfaira area, in the countryside of Aleppo, said the report. Citing a military source, the report said, warplanes were…

Flood In Yemen Kills Two Children

SANAA, May 5 (NNN-SABA) – Torrential rains and flooding killed two children in Yemen’s central province of Ibb, in the last 24 hours, pro-government media reported, citing local residents. According to al-Masdar news website, a nine-year-old girl was swept away by floods, in al-Mashannah district, in the centre of Ibb,…

29th Span Installed In Construction Of Bangladesh’s Padma Bridge

DHAKA, May 5 (Xinhua) — The 29th span of Bangladesh’s largest Chinese-built Padma bridge has been installed, amid the country’s nationwide COVID-19 lock-down, making 4.35 km of the main structure of the bridge visible. Dewan Abdul Quader, a senior Bangladeshi engineer of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project, told journalists that,…

UAE’s Sharjah Library Allows Free Access To Six Million Digital Resources

RABAT, May 4 (NNN-WAM) – The United Arab Emirates’ Sharjah Library, allowed access to its more than six million e-books and digital knowledge resources for free, said a statement on Sunday. The statement, announced by the Rabat-based Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ICESCO), said, the initiative came, in…

Four Daesh Militants, Two Security Members Killed In Attacks In Iraq

BAGHDAD, May 4 (NNN-NINA) – Four Daesh militants and two security members were killed on Sunday, in separate attacks in Iraq, security sources said. Acting on intelligence reports, the army’s helicopter gunships, chased a vehicle of Daesh militants, and bombed it, after spotting it in the mountainous area of Himreen,…

DPRK’s Official Newspaper Publishes New Photos Of Kim Jong Un

PYONGYANG, May 2 (NNN-KCNA) – An official newspaper of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday (today), published photos of its top leader, Kim Jong Un, whose recent disappearance has triggered much speculation. The pictures posted by Rodong Sinmun were dated May 1 and were Kim’s first public…

Cambodia’s Famed Angkor Reports 60-Percent Drop In Foreign Tourists In First Four Months

PHNOM PENH, May 2 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia’s famed Angkor Archaeological Park, attracted 384,317 foreign tourists, in the first four months of 2020, down 60 percent over the same period last year. The ancient site made gross revenue of nearly 18 million U.S. dollars from ticket sales, during the Jan-Apr period…

Explosion Hits Town In Syria’s Aleppo, Killing Four

DAMASCUS, May 2 (NNN-SANA) – An explosion took place in a storehouse of cooking gas cylinders, in a town in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, in northern Syria on Friday, killing four people and wounding 23 others, state TV reported. The explosion left damage in buildings near the storehouse…
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