S Korean president’s approval rating falls to 67.4 pct: poll

Seoul, Sep 29 (UNI) South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s approval rating fell 2.5 percentage points from a week earlier to 67.4 percent last week, a weekly poll showed on Monday. The negative assessment of Lee’s conduct of state affairs increased 3.4 percentage points to 31.6 percent, according to computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) by local pollster…

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Australian telco Optus reports second outage affecting emergency calls in 10 days

Sydney, Sep 29 (UNI) Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company, Optus, on Monday reported a second network outage in 10 days that affected emergency calls. Optus, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singaporean conglomerate Singtel, on Monday said that the service outage affected phone calls in the east coast state of New South Wales (NSW) between 3 a.m. and…

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Schools shut as rain alert issued in Ch. Sambhajinagar

Ch. Sambhajinagar, Sep 28 (UNI) The District Collector of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar has declared a holiday for all schools and colleges in the district tomorrow following a yellow weather alert issued by the Regional Meteorological Centre in Mumbai. The order, which excludes educational institutions within the municipal corporation limits, was issued by District Collector Dilip Swami,…

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China delivers flood relief supplies to Pakistan

Beijing, Sept. 28 (UNI) The first batch of emergency flood relief supplies provided by the Chinese government to Pakistan was dispatched from central China’s Zhengzhou on Sunday, according to the Chinese Air Force. Two Y-20 transport aircraft delivered the supplies, including tents and blankets, to Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. Pakistan has suffered from severe floods since…

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