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New Zealand PM Announces General Election Date

WELLINGTON, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The 2020 General Election will be held on Sept 19, New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda…

Nuclear Plant Operator In Western Japan Apologises For Series Of Mishaps

TOKYO, Jan 28 (NNN-NHK) – The president of a utility company that operates a nuclear power plant in western Japan,…

5.4-Magnitude Quake Strikes Japan’s Hokkaido Prefecture

TOKYO, Jan 28 (NNN-NHK) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4, struck Japan’s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, the…

Russian operators stop selling tours to China over coronavirus

MOSCOW, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian tour operators have stopped selling package holidays to China due to the coronavirus outbreak…

WHO corrects China virus global risk level

GENEVA, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization, which has sometimes been criticised for its handling of past disease…

US Pres Trump offers China ‘any help’ needed as Wuhan virus toll exceeds 100

A man puts a protective mask in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province WASHINGTON,…

No US, Israeli Commander To Remain Safe If Iranians Threatened: General Salami

TEHRAN, Jan 28 (NNN-TASNIM) – Should the US or Israel dare to carry out the threat to assassinate another Iranian…

US military confirms Air Force aircraft crash in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (NNN-Xinhua) — The US military confirmed that a US Air Force aircraft crashed in Afghanistan on Monday.…

Iranian FM Says U.S. Mideast Peace Plan “Delusional”

TEHRAN, Iran, Jan 28 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Monday, said that, the U.S. President, Donald…

S. Korea remains watchful of economic fallout from Wuhan coronavirus cases

SEOUL, Jan 28 (NNN-YONHAP) — South Korea said Tuesday it would spare no efforts to tackle with potential economic fallout…