Senior Member Of Gulen Movement Caught By Turkish Intelligence: President

ANKARA, Jul 6 (NNN-ANADOLU) – A senior member of the Gulen movement was nabbed abroad and brought to Turkey, in an operation by Turkish intelligence, Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said yesterday. The senior member, Orhan Inandi, was responsible for the group’s operations in Central Asia, Erdogan said, at a…

Nepal Aims To Export Power After Inaugurating Largest Power Project

KATHMANDU, Jul 6 (NNN-XINHUA) – Nepali Prime Minister, KP Sharma Oli, yesterday, inaugurated the Upper Tamakoshi hydropower project, the country’s largest, with an installed capacity of 456MW, which is expected to make Nepal a power exporter. Oli “switched on” the button, through a video conference, after the electricity, generated by…

Death Toll In Philippine Military Plane Crash Rises To 52, Full Investigation Ordered

MANILA, Jul 6 (NNN-PNA) – The death toll from a military plane crash in the southern Philippines has risen to 52, as two more critically injured soldiers died in hospital, Defence Secretary, Delfin Lorenzana, said, in an updated report yesterday. All 96 passengers and crew in the C-130H aircraft have…

Mongolia Logs 1,551 New COVID-19 Cases

ULAN BATOR, Jul 5 (NNN-XINHUA) – Mongolia reported 1,551 new COVID-19 cases, over the past 24 hours, bringing the national caseload to 126,811, the country’s health ministry said, today. The ministry said that, a total of 8,699 samples were tested across the country in the past day, and the latest…

New Zealand Reports Seven New Cases Of COVID-19 In Managed Isolation

WELLINGTON, Jul 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) – New Zealand, today, reported seven new cases of COVID-19, related to recent returnees in managed isolation facilities, and no cases in the community. The new imported cases came from Cambodia, Bahrain and India, with four other cases’ full travel history yet to be determined, according…

Covid-19: Russia cases soar again as Delta strain sparks global resurgence

Bangladesh is under lockdown battling a dire new surge of the Delta variant of the coronavirus MOSCOW, July 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia on Sunday counted more than 25,000 new daily infections after a week of record death tolls as the highly contagious Delta variant propels a global resurgence of the pandemic.…

At Least 20 Injured In Thai Chemical Factory Explosion

BANGKOK, Jul 5 (NNN-TNA) – A chemical factory, close to Suvarnabhumi airport, in the suburbs of Bangkok, exploded and caught fire early today, leaving at least 20 people injured. The strong explosion occurred at around 3:00 a.m. local time, in a plastic foam producing factory, in Bang Phli district of…

Vietnam’s Traffic Accidents Down 11.5 Percent In H1

HANOI, Jul 5 (NNN-VNA) – A total of 6,007 traffic accidents occurred in Vietnam in the first half of this year, down 11.5 percent against the same period last year, according to the country’s Traffic Police Department today. The accidents killed 3,092 people, severely injured 2,032 and slightly injured 2,284,…

India Reports 39,796 New COVID-19 Cases

NEW DELHI, Jul 5 (NNN-PTI) – India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 30,585,229 today, as 39,796 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, according to the health ministry. Besides, 723 more deaths were recorded since yesterday morning, taking the death toll to 402,728. Currently there are…

“Very Difficult” To Maintain Australia Services After Arrivals Halved: Int’l Airlines

CANBERRA, Jul 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) – International airlines claimed, they could be forced to suspend services to Australia, after the government decided to cut arrivals. Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announced on Friday that, from Jul 14, the number of international arrivals will be halved, to a little more than 3,000…
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