Mumbai Allows Online Platforms For Home Delivery Of Liquor Amid COVID-19

MUMBAI, May 23 (NNN-PTI) – Mumbai allowed online delivery platforms to deliver liquor in sealed bottles from Friday night, as per the order issued by the city’s governing authority. “Amendment in guidelines in respect of liquor shops selling liquor in sealed bottles be permitted to operate by selling liquor to…

Singapore Reports Over 30,000 COVID-19 Cases

SINGAPORE, May 23 (NNN-CNA) – Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH), reported 614 new COVID-19 cases as on Friday noon, bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to 30,426. Of the newly confirmed cases, four were cases in the community, and 610 were work permit holders residing in dormitories. There…

Turkey Reports 952 New COVID-19 Cases, 154,500 In Total

ANKARA, May 23 (NNN-ANADOLU) – The total number of COVID-19 cases in Turkey reached 154,500 on Friday, with 952 new cases registered, Turkish Health Minister, Fahrettin Koca, said. The death toll surged to 4,276, after 27 new fatalities were reported in the past 24 hours, the minister tweeted. Turkey conducted…

UK To Impose 14-Day Quarantine On New Arrivals As COVID-19 Deaths Hit 36,393

LONDON, May 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) – New arrivals to Britain must self-isolate for two weeks from June 8, with fines for anyone who breaches the measure, designed to prevent a second wave of coronavirus from overseas, Home Secretary, Priti Patel, said Friday. Chairing the Downing Street briefing, Patel said, passengers will…

Zimbabwean President Hails Chinese Medical Team For Support In Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic

HARARE, May 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, expressed Zimbabwe’s gratitude to the visiting team of Chinese medical experts, for sharing their experience and knowledge with Zimbabwe’s front-line medical staff in fighting the COVID-19. He extended the appreciation in a letter, read out by Zimbabwean Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo,…

10 European Nations Regret U.S. Pulling Out Of Open Skies Treaty

PARIS, May 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Ten European nations issued a joint statement, regretting the United States’s withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty, which they consider “a crucial element of the confidence-building framework that has been created over the past decades to increase transparency and security across the Euro-Atlantic area.” “We…

Iran’s Top Leader Calls For “Resistance” Against Israel’s Pressure On Occupied Palestinian Territories

TEHRAN, May 23 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Friday, called for “resistance” against Israeli pressures on occupied Palestinian territories, according to the leader’s official website. “My main advice is to continue this struggle” against occupation, and to better organise the resistant groups inside Palestinian territories, Khamenei…

UAE, Iranian Health Ministers Review COVID-19 Countermeasures

ABU DHABI, May, 21 (NNN-WAM) – Abdul Rahman bin Mohammad bin Nasser Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention, received a phone call from Iranian Health Minister, Saeed Namaki, wherein they exchanged views over the measures taken by the two countries in the fight against COVID-19. Al Owais said, the…

Afghan Airstrikes Kill Six Militants In Northern Kunduz Province

KUNDUZ, May 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) – At least six Taliban militants were killed and 10 others wounded as fighter planes bombarded Taliban hideouts in the northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement today. Acting on tip off, the raids, conducted late Wednesday night, the fighter…

Two Killed, Hundreds Of Houses Damaged As Whirlwind Hits Indonesia’s Lampung

JAKARTA, May 21 (NNN-ANTARA) – At least two people were killed and six others injured, as whirlwind destroyed hundreds of houses in Indonesia’s western Lampung province, a disaster agency official said. The natural disaster struck the districts of Tulang Bawang and Mesuji on Wednesday night, Head of the Provincial Disaster…