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Somali parliament approves appointment of Hamza Abdi Barre as PM
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Mogadishu [Somalia], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Somali Parliament on Saturday unanimously approved the appointment of Hamza Abdi Barre as the country's new prime minister.
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Suspected nightclub shooting kills two, injures 21 in Oslo: police
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Two people are confirmed dead and 21 others wounded after a series of shootings rocked Oslo early Saturday morning, according to reports reaching here from the Norwegian capital.
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Roe vs Wade overturning shows 'women are not equal' in US: California Gove
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Los Angeles [US], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying the ruling showed that "women are not equal" in the United States.
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South Korea reports 6,790 new COVID-19 cases
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea recorded 6,790 new COVID-19 cases as of midnight Friday compared to 24 hours ago, bringing the total number of infections to 18,319,773, the health authorities said Saturday.
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Daily new fever cases drop below 10,000 in North Korea
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Pyongyang [North Korea], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): About 9,600 fever cases were reported in the past 24 hours through 0900 GMT on Friday in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), with zero deaths, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Saturday.
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Malaysia reports 2,512 new COVID-19 infections, 3 more deaths
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 2,512 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Friday, bringing the national total to 4,552,359, according to the health ministry.
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EU might convene extraordinary summit on energy: Italian PM
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Friday that the European Union (EU) would hold an extraordinary energy summit if natural gas supplies to the bloc were further threatened.
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COVID-19 cases rise 23 pc in Britain, with London a hotspot
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Britain's new COVID-19 cases have jumped by 23 per cent in just a week, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported Friday.
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18 dead in stampede while crossing into Spanish enclave
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Rabat [Morocco], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Death toll climbs to 18 in a stampede as more than 2,000 sub-Saharan migrants tried Friday to breach the border between Morocco and Melilla, a Spanish enclave city in Africa, Moroccan official news agency MAP reported.
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UN chief calls for action to help internally displaced persons
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday launched an action agenda to galvanize efforts to help internally displaced persons.
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Canada's job vacancies reached one million in April
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Employers in Canada were actively seeking to fill about one million vacant positions at the beginning of April, up 44.4 per cent from the same period of the previous year, Statistics Canada said on Friday.
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UN body seeks USD 993 million to prevent famine, tackle drought in Somalia
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Mogadishu [Somalia], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): The United Nations humanitarian agency said on Friday that it's seeking 993.3 million US dollars to provide life-saving and life-sustaining assistance to prevent famine and respond to the drought in Somalia by December.
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