Gaza, Nov 24 (IANS) The UN has notified the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) that construction raw material to rebuild some 24,000 destroyed houses will be allowed soon into Gaza Strip, a senior official said Monday. Mufied Hassayna, the Palestinian unity government’s minister of housing and public work, told reporters in Gaza that UN representatives officially […]
Nairobi, Nov 22 (IANS) Somalia-based militant group Al-Shabaab Saturday claimed responsibility for the killing of 28 bus passengers in Kenya. Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said the dawn attack on the Nairobi-bound bus, which was carrying 60 passengers, in the border town of Mandera was in response to the killings and arrests of Muslims […]
Jakarta, Nov 22 (IANS) At least five people were killed and many houses damaged in landslides in Indonesia’s North Sumatra Saturday, an official said here. Heavy downpour caused the landslides in Sibio Bio village of Tapanuli Tengah district, damaging five houses located on the slope of a hill, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the national […]
Marrakech, Nov 22 (IANS) Nine agreements were signed between the Moroccan General Confederation of Enterprises (CGEM) and several small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well as between major Moroccan banks and start-ups at the 5th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES 2014) held in Morocco. The GES 2014 wrapped up Friday night in Marrakech after three days […]
Baghdad, Nov 22 (IANS) Iraqi security forces launched a major offensive against Islamic State (IS) militants in the western province of Anbar Saturday, even as fighting continued in the province of Salahudin, a security source said. In Anbar province security forces backed by allied tribal fighters and aircraft launched a major offensive against the IS […]
Washington, Nov 21 (IANS/EFE) The US Department of Defense has reported that five prisoners from the US military detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba, have been transferred to Georgia and Slovakia. Three of them, identified as Salah Mohammed Salih Al-Dhabi, Abdel Ghaib Ahmad Hakim and Abdul Khaled Al-Baydani were sent to Georgia, while two others, Hashim […]
Islamabad, Nov 21 (IANS/EFE) Three more babies died Friday due to lack of oxygen in incubators in a hospital in eastern Pakistan, bringing the number of infant deaths to 15, an official source told Efe news agency. The deaths of the premature babies occurred over the last two days at the university hospital of Sargodha […]
Washington, Nov 21 (IANS) US President Barack Obama awarded the National Medal of Science to Indian American scientist Thomas Kailath for his transformative contribution to science and technology. Kerala-born Stanford University Professor Kailath, 79, received the medal along with 18 of America’s top thinkers, discoverers, and innovators at a ceremony in the East Room of […]
Seville, Nov 20 (IANS/EFE) The Duchess of Alba, the aristocrat with most titles in the world and one of Spain’s biggest fortunes, died Thursday in Seville at age 88 following a short illness, the city’s Mayor, Juan Ignacio Zoido, said. Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart was hospitalised last Sunday with a stomach flu, pneumonia and an irregular […]
Moscow, Nov 20 (IANS /TASS) The Russian emergencies ministry will send the eighth humanitarian aid convoy to the rebel-held regions in east Ukraine, Deputy Minister Vladimir Artamonov said Thursday. “We expect the convoy to depart Nov 26-27,” Artamonov said. During the period from Aug 23 to Nov 16, seven convoys of the Russian emergencies ministry […]