Afghan authorities have inaugurated a water canal in Dawlatabad district of the northern Balkh province to irrigate over 8,000 hectares of land. A provincial government official, Mohammad Ibrahim, announced this to journalists in Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan on Saturday. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) financed the canal project at a cost of 20 million afghanis $230,000. […]
Vietnamese Government said they sent more than 142,000 labourers abroad to work under contract last year. The country sent the labourers mostly to Japan, China’s Taiwan and South Korea, local media cited the country’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs as reporting on Friday. The number was three times that of 2021’s figure and […]
Over 200 million Twitter users’ names, e-mail addresses, screen names, number of followers and phone numbers have reportedly been stolen in a massive hack attack, with the data dump now posted on the dark web. The data breach, which took place as early as 2021, “will lead to more hacking, targeted phishing and doxxing,” according […]
The Moroccan navy rescued 270 Spain-bound migrants in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Dec. 24, 2022 to Jan. 4, the official news agency, MAP reported on Thursday. The migrants were from sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen and Syria, the agency quoted a military source as saying. They have attempted dangerous crossings and encountered problems while boarding […]
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says it rescues 1,088 migrants and returned them to Libya in the past week. “In the period between Dec. 25 and Dec. 31, 2022, 1,088 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya,” the IOM said in a statement. The rescued migrants included 312 women and 776 children, it added. […]
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Korea hit a record high last year. This is due to surging investment in the manufacturing industry, government data showed on Tuesday. The reported FDI grew 3.2 per cent over the year to 30.45 billion U.S. dollars in 2022, topping 30 billion dollars for the first time, according to […]
Following a fresh outbreak of the deadly bird flu virus at a farm in west Denmark, authorities say they will cull 50,000 chickens. The country’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries announced this in a press statement in Copenhagen on Monday. “Deadly and highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus infected the flock. “As a result, […]
The Libyan authorities, on Monday, said they discovered eight unidentified bodies in the city of Tarhuna, some 90 kilometres south of the capital Tripoli. “The field teams from the Excavation Department recovered eight unidentified bodies from a dump site in Tarhuna.” The General Authority for Research and Identification announced this in a statement. Read Related […]
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki expressed his outrage on Monday to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal over the celebration of the birthday of the controversial Ukrainian nationalist, Stepan Bandera. On Jan. 1, the Ukrainian authorities held a series of events on the occasion of Bandera’s birthday. “I don’t have enough words of indignation about all […]
A faulty safety feature caused the 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-8 Max aeroplane which killed 157 people, Ethiopian authorities have said in their final report. On March 10, 2019, the aircraft flying from Addis Ababa to Nairobi crashed immediately after takeoff, killing all passengers and crew. A final report on the accident concluded […]