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Auckland, New Zealand, Oct 1 (UNI) Gust and showers here on Saturday didn’t stop New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins from attending the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival event in Potters Park in central Auckland. Hipkins first said “Happy Mid-Autumn Festival” in Chinese, not fluent but still winning applause from the audience. He reiterated the great…

Abuja, Oct 1 (UNI) At least 25 members of a local church’s choir were kidnapped by armed gunmen en route to a funeral in the Ose local government area of Nigeria’s southwestern state of Ondo, local police said on Saturday. Olufunmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, spokeswoman for the police in Ondo, confirmed the incident which occurred Friday, saying…

Washington, Oct 1 (UNI) U.S President Joe Biden on Saturday night signed a 45-day stopgap funding bill, just a few minutes before federal government funding for this fiscal year is set to expire. In a last-minute effort to avert a government shutdown, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy released the new bill Saturday morning, which would keep…

Colombo, Oct 1 (UNI) Mohamed Muizzu, candidate of the coalition of Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) and People’s National Congress (PNC), emerged as the winner in the runoff presidential election in the Maldives on Saturday, according to preliminary results compiled by local media. The runoff election featured a head-to-head contest between incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed…

Washington, Sep 30 (UNI) Scott Hall, one of the co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case involving former President Donald Trump, has entered a guilty plea during a hearing in Fulton County Superior Court. Hall faces seven charges alleging he was part of a conspiracy, along with former President Trump, to overturn President Joe Biden’s…

Moscow, Sep 30 (UNI) An attempt by Ukraine to carry out a terrorist attack on targets in Russia’s Belgorod Region using nine rockets from the Uragan multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) was prevented, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. “Early on September 30, at about 3:45 a.m. Moscow time, an attempt by the…

Islamabad, Sep 30 (UNI) At least one militant commander and a soldier were killed in two military operations in Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said on Friday night. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media wing of the Pakistan Army, said in a statement that personnel of security forces engaged with terrorist groups…

Islamabad, Sep 29 (UNI) The death toll of a blast that hit a religious gathering in Mastung district of Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Friday rose to 50, police and health officials said. Confirming the casualties, Aetzaz Ahmed Goraya, deputy inspector general of Counter-Terrorism Department Police in the provincial capital city of Quetta, told Xinhua…

Islamabad, Sep 29 (UNI) A powerful explosion hit a religious gathering in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, killing at least 20 people while injuring over 70 others, police and rescue officials said. A senior police official responsible for providing security to the procession was among the killed in the blast, which occurred near a…

Geneva, Sep 29 (UNI) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday published a new Consensus Statement aimed at protecting athletes’ health. The consensus was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine and centered on Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs), a syndrome affecting health and performance caused by a mismatch between calories eaten and…