Yangon, Mar 28 (UNI) An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 jolted 16 km NNW of Sagaing, Myanmar at 06:20:54 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 22.01 degrees north latitude and 95.92 degrees east longitude. Xinhua reporters in Yangon…
Jakarta, Mar 27 (UNI) A train collided with a car in Sukoharjo regency, Central Java province, Indonesia on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring three others, officials said. The accident occurred at a railroad crossing on Pasarnguter Street. All victims were immediately transported to DKR Sukoharjo Hospital, said Feni Novida Saragih, public relations coordinator for…
Kathmandu, Mar 27 (UNI) The Nepali government has asked social media platforms to get registered or face the consequence of being banned in the country, an official said on Wednesday. Companies, institutions or persons who are operating or plan to operate social media platforms in Nepal have been asked to get enlisted with the Ministry…
Beirut/Jerusalem, Mar 26 (UNI) A senior military commander of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, according to a Lebanese security source on Tuesday. The source told Xinhua that “an Israeli drone fired an air-to-ground missile at a civilian vehicle … in (the village of) Qa’qaiyat…
Rome, Mar 25 (UNI) The recent U.S.-brokered Russia-Ukraine peace talks highlighted growing divisions between Washington and Brussels, bringing trans-Atlantic relations to a historic low, an Italian geopolitical analyst has said. Sergio Fabbrini, a political science professor at Rome’s LUISS University, told Xinhua that the exclusion of Europe from the talks underscores the EU’s declining influence…
Jerusalem, Mar 23 (UNI) Israel, through Egyptian intermediaries, presented to Palestinian movement Hamas a two-stage plan to free hostages from the Gaza Strip, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported, citing unnamed informed Egyptian sources. According to the agency, Israel’s plan assumes that in the first stage Hamas will free 11 hostages and hand over the bodies…
Khartoum, Mar 23 (UNI) More than 45 civilians were killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Al-Malha area, about 210 kilometers north of El Fasher in western Sudan, local organizations said on Saturday. “Today, RSF fighters resumed their actions in the markets and residential neighborhoods (in Al-Malha area)… and indiscriminate…
Beirut/Jerusalem, Mar 23 (UNI) At least six people were killed and 28 others injured in fresh Israeli airstrikes targeting eastern and southern Lebanon on Saturday evening, according to Lebanon’s health authorities. In southern Lebanon, an Israeli airstrike targeted the city of Tyre, as well as several valleys and villages, killing six people and injuring 22,…
Islamabad, Mar 21 (UNI) A soldier was killed and 10 others injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeted a convoy of paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) troops in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Thursday, an official sources said. The attack occurred around 12:55 p.m. local time (0755 GMT) in Kech district, a region that…
Gaza/Jerusalem, Mar 18 (UNI) The Israeli army conducted on Tuesday intense airstrikes on the northern and central Gaza Strip, marking the most violent escalation since the ceasefire, according to local sources and eyewitnesses. Palestinian sources told Xinhua that Israeli warplanes launched raids of unprecedented scale, triggering successive explosions in several areas of northern and central…
