Being Overweight Surpasses Smoking As Australia’s Leading Health Risk
CANBERRA, Dec 12 (NNN-AAP) – Being overweight has become the leading risk factor, contributing to disease in Australia for the…
Possible cooling La Nina will be ‘weak’, ‘short-lived’: UN
GENEVA, Dec 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The cooling weather phenomenon La Nina could appear in coming months, but if it…
Afghan Acting Minister Among Four Killed In Suicide Attack In Kabul
KABUL, Dec 12 (NNN-BNA) – Afghanistan’s Acting Minister for Refugees and Repatriation, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, was killed in a suicide…
Nepal To Ban Commercial Helicopter Flights To Mt. Qomolangma
KATHMANDU, Dec 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – A local government and other stakeholders in the Mount Qomolangma region of Nepal, decided to…
Curfew In Damascus Lifted As Interim PM Calls Refugees To Return Home
DAMASCUS, Dec 12 (NNN-SANA) – Syria’s Military Operations Administration, announced yesterday, the lifting of a curfew in Damascus and surrounding…
Iran To Develop Transit Hub For Asia-Europe Trade
TEHRAN, Dec 12 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran is working to attract a share of the Asia-Europe goods transit, by developing a…
Malaria mortality returns to pre-Covid levels: WHO
GENEVA, Dec 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Malaria mortality has fallen back to levels seen before the Covid-19 crisis, the WHO said…
Israel Steps Up Strikes In Syria Following Assad’s Downfall
DAMASCUS, Dec 11 (NNN-SANA) – Israel ramped up airstrikes across Syria and carried out significant ground operations, targeting critical military…
Gaps in birth registration leave 150 million children ‘invisible’: UNICEF
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Despite recent progress in birth registration, some 150 million children worldwide remain “invisible,” deprived…
S. Korean Police Raided President Yoon’s Office Over Martial Law Declaration
SEOUL, Dec 11 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korean police raided the office of the embattled President, Yoon Suk-yeol, over his martial…