South African court allows sheep exports to Middle East, rejects cruelty concerns

CAPE TOWN, Aug 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A South African court ruled that a Kuwaiti firm could ship thousands of sheep to the Middle East, dealing a blow to animal welfare activists seeking to ban such exports on concerns that extreme heat could kill the animals en route. In the high…

UAE implicated in lethal drone strike in Libya in January

TRIPOLI, Aug 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — New evidence has uncovered that a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) killed 26 unarmed cadets at a military academy in Libya’s capital Tripoli in January 2020. At the time of the strike on Jan 4, Tripoli was under siege by the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA).…

Covid-19: Egyptian cinema hit hard by pandemic

CAIRO, Aug 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Egyptian cinemas are slowly reopening after months of lockdown, but the huge sector sometimes dubbed “the Hollywood of the Arab world” has taken a severe hit during the pandemic. After movie theatres were shuttered because of Covid-19 from at least March to June, filmmakers and…

159 schools, 85,000 students affected by Beirut’s blasts: UNESCO

BEIRUT, Aug 27 (NNN-XINHUA) — United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Director-General Audrey Azoulay said on Thursday that 159 private and public schools as well as 85,000 students were affected by Beirut’s explosions, Xinhua news agency reported. “We need approximately US$22 million to rehabilitate destroyed walls in these schools,”…

Iran’s FM Slams Pompeo For Trying To “Flood” Region With Weapons

TEHRAN, Aug 26 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, criticised U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, for “violating his own country’s laws” and trying to “flood” the Middle East with weapons. On a note on Twitter, Iran’s chief diplomat wrote that the U.S. Secretary of State “has no…

UN Mideast Envoy Voices Concern Over Situation In Gaza, West Bank

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 26 (NNN-WAFA) – UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, voiced concern over the deteriorating situation in Gaza and the West Bank. The security situation in Gaza recently deteriorated, a trend which may soon become irreversible, he warned. This latest escalation once again…

Six Killed In Truck Bomb Explosion In N. Afghanistan, Taliban Claims Responsibility

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Aug 26 (NNN-XINHUA) – Six people, including an assailant, were killed and 32 others wounded, after a Taliban militants’ suicide truck bomb blast took place outside a special forces’ camp, in northern Afghanistan’s Balkh province, an army source confirmed. The incident occurred in Balkh district in central part of…

German FM calls on Greece, Turkey to discuss natural gas dispute

Turkish Foreign Minsiter Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) and German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas BERLIN, Aug 26 (NNN-Xinhua) — Before his mediation trip, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Greece and Turkey to discuss their territorial claims in the Mediterranean. “A further escalation can only harm everyone, but above all those…

Covid-19: Spain calls on army to fight virus as WHO signals slowdown

MADRID, Aug 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Spain said it will call in the army to try to help curb the spread of the coronavirus as parts of Europe and Asia battle new surges, while data from the UN health agency suggested the pace of transmission was easing in many parts of…

US accuses Israel’s Teva of fixing drug prices as 5 other companies heavily fined

NEW YORK, Aug 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Justice Department charged Israeli generic drug giant Teva of illegally fixing drug pricesbetween 2013 and 2015. Teva and several co-conspirators agreed to fix prices, rig bids, andallocate customers for generic drugs” including the popular cholesterol-regulating medicine Pravastatin, the Justice Department said in…
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