संयुक्त राष्ट्र, 13 नवंबर (आईएएनएस)। हैती में कमर्शियल जेटलाइनरों पर गोलीबारी और हिंसा की घटनाएं बढ़ने के बाद वहां जाने वाली संयुक्त राष्ट्र की सभी फ्लाइट्स निलंबित कर दी गई हैं। यह जानकारी यूएन प्रवक्ता ने दी है। सोमवार को हैती की राजधानी पोर्ट-ऑ-प्रिंस के पास पहुंचते समय यूएस स्पिरिट एयरलाइंस के एक कमर्शियल फ्लाइट पर गोलीबारी की गई, जिसके कारण उसे पड़ोसी डोमिनिकन रिपब्लिक की ओर मोड़ना पड़ा।...

बेरूत, 13 नवंबर (आईएएनएस)। लेबनान में इजरायली हवाई हमलों में कम से कम 32 लोगों की मौत हो गई और कुछ अन्य घायल हो गए। वहीं हिजबुल्लाह ने कई इजरायली ठिकानों को निशाना बनाने का दावा किया। लेबनानी राष्ट्रीय समाचार एजेंसी (एनएनए) के अनुसार, दो अलग-अलग इजरायली एयर स्ट्राइक में बाल्चमई शहर में आठ लोग मारे गए और दो घायल हो गए, जबकि चौफ जिले के जौन गांव में 12 लोगों की मौत हुई और आठ घायल हो गए।समाचार...

Ramallah, Nov 13 (IANS) The Israeli army has killed a Palestinian youth allegedly attempting a stabbing attack near Nablus city, northern West Bank, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Tuesday that it was informed by the General Authority for Civil Affairs of the death of 18-year-old Walid Hussein, who was killed by Israeli army...

Beirut, Nov 13 (IANS) At least 32 people were killed and some others injured in Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon, the media reported.According to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA), in two separate Israeli airstrikes in Mount Lebanon, eight were killed and two injured in the town of Baalchmay, while 12 others were killed and eight more wounded in the village of Joun in Chouf district.The...

New York, Nov 13 (IANS) Firefighters in the western US state of California gained a foothold in the battle against a wildfire north of Los Angeles while weather officials have issued red flag warnings across the US Northeast where blazes turned deadly over the weekend. The Mountain Fire in California's Ventura County burned 20,630 acres of land as of Tuesday, an amount it has held near for...

Sanaa, Nov 13 (IANS) At least 10 Houthi operatives were killed in two separate US drone strikes in Yemen's central Al-Bayda province, a Yemeni government military source told the media. The strikes targeted mobile rocket launchers in the As-Sawma'ah and Dhi-Na'im districts, the source said on Tuesday on condition of anonymity.Local residents reported on social media that Houthi forces cordoned...

Jerusalem, Nov 13 (IANS) Two men were killed in Israel's northern city of Nahariya in a rocket attack from Lebanon, Israeli authorities said.According to the Israeli military, Hezbollah forces launched two barrages on Tuesday noon, the first of around 10 rockets targeting the north that led to the casualties, and the second of three rockets targeting the Tel Aviv area, which was intercepted by...

Islamabad, Nov 13 (IANS) At least 16 people were killed and two others injured after a passenger coach fell into a river in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region, an official said. The spokesperson for the region, Faiz Ullah Faraq, said on Tuesday in a statement that a passenger coach carrying 26 persons fell into the river in the Thalichi area of the Diamer district of the...

New York, Nov 13 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which controls immigration-related agencies.Announcing her nomination on the social media platform 'Truth Social' on Tuesday night, Trump said, "Kristi has been very strong on Border Security."With Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller,...

New York, Nov 13 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing two maverick entrepreneurs -- Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DoGE) that will be charged with drastically changing government while cutting waste. Announcing the appointments on Truth Social on Tuesday night, Trump said that DoGE "will become,...

Washington, Nov 13 (IANS) US President-elect Donald Trump has named John Ratcliffe, a former congressman and Director of National Intelligence, as his Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, contrary to feverish speculation that the job was going to Kash Patel, an Indian-American.Trump had pushed for Patel as acting director of the CIA in the dying months of this first term as...

Seoul, Nov 13 (IANS) A solar coronagraph jointly developed by South Korea and the United States has been successfully installed on the International Space Station (ISS) to begin its mission of observing the sun and its outer atmosphere, or corona, Seoul's national space agency said on Wednesday.The Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) was installed on the ISS's external platform, successfully...

Nairobi, Nov 13 (IANS) The World Food Programme (WFP) said that it requires $137.6 million in net funding to provide humanitarian aid to one million food-insecure Kenyans over the next six months.The WFP estimates that one million Kenyans, primarily in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), are acutely food insecure -- a number projected to rise to 1.8 million by January 2025 due to anticipated La...

Cape Town, Nov 13 (IANS) The Africa Tech Festival 2024 kicked off in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa. By bringing together global technology and telecom leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers, the festival, one of the largest and most influential telecom and technology events in Africa, aims to drive digital transformation and innovation across the continent.Now in its 27th...

Port Sudan, Nov 13 (IANS) More than 15 million children in Sudan are out of school due to the country's ongoing conflict, the National Council for Child Welfare said. "We have more than 15 million children out of school," said Abdul Qadir Abdullah Abu, the council's secretary-general, at a press conference in Port Sudan, the capital of Red Sea State, Xinhua news agency reported.Abu accused the...

Baku, Nov 13 (IANS) People forcibly displaced are increasingly finding themselves on the front line of the global climate crisis, according to a report released. The report, published during the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), showed how climate shocks are interacting with conflict, which further affects the...

Port Sudan, Nov 13 (IANS) The government of Sudan's Red Sea State urged the international community and humanitarian organisations to support its efforts to provide basic needs for thousands of displaced people in the region."The state is hosting large numbers of displaced people, and the number is still increasing," Minister of Social Welfare in the Red Sea State Ilham Idris Gasmalla said"We...

Juba, Nov 13 (IANS) Humanitarian access in South Sudan faced heightened challenges in October due to rising violence, threats against aid personnel and assets, and increasing administrative hurdles, a UN relief agency said.The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said physical access issues delayed the delivery of essential services to communities across the country,...