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Port-au-Prince, (UNI) Haiti’s interim Prime Pinister, Garry Conille, has officially assumed office, a statement from his office said on Tuesday. In late May, the Haitian Transitional Presidential Council selected Conille, director of the local department of the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), to lead the interim government. He already served as prime minister in…

Tokyo, June 3 (UNI) An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 jolted off Japan’s Noto region in Ishikawa prefecture early Monday, the country’s weather agency said. No tsunami warning was issued by the authorities. On Jan. 1, a series of strong quakes of up to 7.6 magnitude rattled the Noto region and its vicinity…

Sanaa, June 2 (UNI) Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, also known as Houthis, attacked a US aircraft carrier, destroyer and a number of ships in the Red Sea, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Saturday. The Houthi navy, missile units and drones have conducted six operations, the spokesman said. “The US aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower…

Colombo, June 2 (UNI) Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Center (DMC) issued a major flood alert in the outskirts of capital Colombo and several other areas of the island as heavy rains lashed across the country on Sunday. The Irrigation Department said that due to heavy rains since the early hours of Sunday, water levels in…

Seoul, June 2 (UNI) North Korea dumped some 600 more trash-carrying balloons into South Korea amid continued GPS signals jamming for five straight days against the South, Seoul’s military said Sunday. The South Korean presidential office was considering taking countermeasures, Yonhap news agency reported. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said it has detected…

Helsinki, June 2 (UNI) Businesswoman Halla Tomasdottir was in a clear lead over former Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir in the Icelandic presidential election, according to partial results from all constituencies published on Sunday. With 86,551 of the around 160,000 votes counted, Tomasdottir had 32.4 percent of the vote, compared with 26.3 percent for Jakobsdottir, reported…

Kuwait City, June 2 (UNI) Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah has issued a decree to appoint Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah as the Crown Prince of Kuwait, the Kuwait State Television reported on Saturday. Born in 1953 in Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah previously served as prime minister in the country from 2019 to 2022. Graduating…

Gaza, June 1 (UNI) At least 70 Palestinians were found dead on Friday in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp where Israel has just pulled out its armed forces after a nearly three-week offensive. Local medical sources told Xinhua that ambulance and civil defense crews primitively retrieved about 70 bodies, including 20 children, from the camp,…

Beijing, June 1 (UNI) 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Nyima County, Nagqu City in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, at 8:46 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter was monitored at 34.14 degrees north latitude and 86.36 degrees east longitude. The quake struck at a depth of 8 km, said…

Beirut, June 1 (UNI) A Hezbollah member and one civilian were killed and five others wounded on Friday evening in Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military sources. The sources, who spoke anonymously, said one Hezbollah member was killed and another wounded in an Israeli attack in the town of Ain Qana, while…