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Washington, Mar 6 (UNI) US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are leading in “Super Tuesday” wins in their respective party’s primaries of the 2024 presidential election. Biden, challenged by American author Marianne Williamson and Congressman Dean Phillips, has won Alabama’s, Massachusetts’s, Maine’s, North Carolina’s, Oklahoma’s, Tennessee’s, Virginia’s, and Vermont’s Democratic primaries and…
Harare, Mar 6 (UNI) The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday extended oral cholera vaccination in the capital Harare amid a marked decline in new cases countrywide. Due to the decline, the government also authorized the decommissioning of cholera treatment centers in areas where cases have reduced to zero, with the equipment and supplies being redistributed to…
Cairo, Mar 6 (UNI) There are difficulties in the negotiations hosted by Egypt to reach a truce between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, Egypt’s Al-Qahera News TV reported Tuesday. The report, citing a high-ranking Egyptian official who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the negotiations for a humanitarian…
Beirut, Mar 6 (UNI) Three members of one family were killed and three others were wounded on Tuesday in Israeli artillery shelling and airstrikes targeting several Lebanese villages in the border region of southern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua. The military sources, who spoke anonymously, said that the “three civilians” were killed in an…
Gaza, Mar 6 (UNI) The Israeli army announced on Tuesday the destruction of a tunnel belonging to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the northern Gaza Strip. “The Defence Army thwarted and destroyed the largest terrorist tunnel uncovered in the northern Gaza Strip,” said Avichay Adraee, the Israeli Army spokesperson on his X account. The…
Islamabad, Feb 29 (UNI) Six terrorists were killed during a clash with security forces in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said. The security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in the north Waziristan district of the province, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistani military, said in a statement late…
Phnom Penh, Feb 29 (UNI) Another newborn Mekong Irrawaddy dolphin has been spotted, raising the number of newborn dolphin calves in Cambodia to three so far this year, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a news release on Thursday. The new calf was sighted on Feb. 23 near the Kampi dolphin pool…
Sydney, Feb 29 (UNI) Australian police have confirmed that a man was seriously injured after a shooting in Sydney’s southwest overnight. At about 12:10 a.m. local time on Thursday, emergency services were called to an address on Donnelly Street in Guildford, a suburb located approximately 20 km west of Sydney’s central business district. On arrival,…
Tegucigalpa, Feb 29 (UNI) At least 17 people were killed and a dozen injured when two buses collided Wednesday in the municipality of San Juan de Opoa, in western Honduras’ department of Copan, local authorities said. “Soldiers and firefighters are working hard to attend to this emergency and provide all possible help to those affected,”…
Beijing, Feb 29 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Prince Edward Islands region at 0111 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 41.15 degrees south latitude and 43.16 degrees east longitude.
