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New Delhi, Sep 15 (UNI) Japan, the land of the rising sun’s centenarian population, has reached a record high as the country continues to maintain the world’s longest life expectancy, reports said here. According to data released by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the country set a new record for 55th year in…
Minsk, Sep 15 (UNI) Belarus has no plans to cross its neighbors’ borders without an invitation, Minsk is ready to cooperate with everyone, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Monday. “[Belarus] has no plans to cross neighbors’ borders without an invitation,” Lukashenko said in an interview with Russia’s Razvedchik news magazine, adding that Minsk is…
Gaza, Sept. 15 (UNI) Israel on Sunday launched intensive airstrikes on neighborhoods in western Gaza City, killing at least seven Palestinians and wounding several others, Palestinian sources said. Local eyewitnesses told Xinhua that the airstrikes hit Al-Kawthar Tower, the upper floors of Muhanna Tower, and several multi-storey residential buildings. They added that the Israeli military…
Kinshasa, Sept. 15 (UNI) Vaccination against the Ebola virus has begun in the Bulape health zone in the central Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where an outbreak was declared earlier this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Sunday. The ongoing phase of vaccination targets frontline health workers and contacts of confirmed cases,…
Dhaka, Sept. 15 (UNI) The Belt and Road Initiative in Bangladesh Exhibition 2025 was held in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, from Sept. 12 to Sept. 13. During the event, government officials, experts, scholars, and business representatives from both China and Bangladesh spoke highly of the achievements of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in…
Kabul, Sept. 13 (UNI) Police during two separate operations have discovered 39 kg of illegal drugs and arrested four alleged drug smugglers in western Afghanistan’s Nimroz province, provincial police spokesman Mawlawi Gul Mohammad Qudrat said Saturday. In the first operation, which was conducted on a road linking the provincial capital Zaranj to Dilaram district, police…
Kathmandu/New Delhi, Sep 12 (UNI) Former Nepal Chief Justice Sushila Karki is likely to be appointed head of the interim government and the Parliament has been dissolved. The development follows day-long consultations between President Ram Chandra Paudel, the leaders of Gen Z protestors and the Army at the President’s office. ‘’President Ram Chandra Paudel agreed…
Harbin, Sept. 11 (UNI) All six people trapped in a coal mine in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province were rescued on Thursday morning after nearly 30 hours of rescue efforts, authorities said. The mining-induced quake struck the Fuli coal mine in the city of Hegang on Wednesday, damaging sections of underground tunnels. The on-site rescue headquarters…
Tokyo, Sept. 11 (UNI) Japan’s weather agency said Thursday that atmospheric conditions are very unstable in many parts of the country due to an autumn rain front, with torrential rain already hitting the Shikoku region in western Japan earlier in the morning. Bands of heavy rain clouds developed over the southwestern prefectures of Nagasaki and…
Islamabad, Sept. 11 (UNI) Nineteen terrorists were killed in three separate operations in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, the military said on Thursday. The security forces conducted intelligence-based operations in Mohmand, North Waziristan and Bannu districts of KP, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, said in a statement….
