(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Amman, Mar.14 (Petra) -- Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, Ayman Safadi will head, along with his Egyptian and Swedish counterparts, in Rome on Thursday, an extraordinary ministerial conference dedicated to rally support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
A Foreign Ministry statement said Wednesday the conference, which is held upon a Jordanian initiative, aims at mobilizing international political and financial support for UNRWA, enhancing its efficiency, expanding its donor base and develop financial plans that will ensure sustainable financing for it, to address a huge fiscal deficit estimated at $446 million, which would affect the UN agency's core services for nearly 5.3 million Palestinian refugees in its five areas of operation.
The conference was preceded by intensive Jordanian diplomatic contacts with many countries and international officials to hold the conference with a large international presence, in order to ensure that the gathering would delivered the intended results.
The Rome meeting will emphasize the need to enable the UNRWA to continue providing services to Palestine refugees, as an international political, legal, moral and humanitarian responsibility.
The refugees issue is one of the most important final status issues, which must be resolved on the basis of relevant international legitimacy resolutions, in particular the 194 UN Resolution and the Arab Peace Initiative, guaranteeing the refugees' right of return and compensation.
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Doha: The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani received Thursday evening well-wishers on the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, at Lusail Palace.
HH the Amir received the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, the Speaker of the Shura Council HE Hassan bin Abdullah Al Ghanim, and Their Excellencies sheikhs, ministers, undersecretaries, members of the Shura Council, and citizens.
HH the Amir exchanged greetings with the well-wishers on this noble occasion, praying to Allah to bring it back to the State of Qatar and its people with goodness, peace and prosperity.
HH Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani, Personal Representative of HH the Amir; HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al-Thani; HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al-Thani; HE Sheikh Jassim bin Khalifa Al-Thani and a number of Their Excellencies Sheikhs were also present.
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(MENAFN- Saudi Press Agency) The next step was the establishment of a specialized center to provide free services for children with disabilities and with the kickoff of construction work and preparation for the Association's first center the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has offered many contributions to caring of this newborn center until he opened it on behalf of late King Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 09/02/1407 AH corresponding to 13/10/1983 AD.
Since that date King Salman was continuing his generous patronage for the Disabled Children's Association without interruption where he patronized on behalf of late King Fahd bin Abdulaziz the first Conference on Disability and Rehabilitation which was organized during the period from 13-16/ 5/1413 AH corresponding to 08-11/11/1992 AD from which a number of important recommendations were issued and had received the approval of the Royal Court and holding the conference had wide positive effects at the level of services provided to children with disabilities including the National System for Persons with Disabilities adopted by the Council of Ministers.
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(MENAFN- UkrinForm) Ukraine has recorded 15,936 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Health Ministry has reported on Facebook.
'Some 15,936 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 (including 1,394 cases in children and 303 cases in healthcare workers) were recorded in Ukraine on November 25, 2021,' the report reads.
According to the report, 608 patients died from COVID-19, 3,208 were hospitalized, and 24,569 recovered in Ukraine in the past 24 hours.
As many as 3,400,340 people in Ukraine have contracted coronavirus, 2,877,021 have recovered, and 84,149 have died since the pandemic began. Read also:
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According to the report, 273,875 people were vaccinated for COVID-19 in Ukraine on November 25. Some 81,516 people received their first dose, and 192,359 people were fully vaccinated.
A total of 23,775,008 doses have been administered in Ukraine since it launched the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, with 13,164,649 people receiving their first dose and 10,610,359 people receiving both doses (two people received their first dose abroad).
A total of 16,943 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Ukraine on November 24.
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CPI national Secretary Dr K Narayana today demanded that the Andhra Pradesh government immediately close LG Polymers, the company "responsible" for the deaths of 12 people at Visakhapatnam.
He also demanded that the state government order a judicial inquiry into the whole issue, and provide adequate security to the local people and workers of the company.
Narayana said that the state government appeared to be giving priority to the industrialists of the state over its own people. Targeting the Chief Minister of the state Y S Jaganmohan Reddy, he alleged that the company was allowed to function during the ongoing lockdown to supply bottles to distilleries owned by the CM himself. He also expressed his surprise over the decision of the CM to talk to the representatives of the company first instead of visiting the family members of the dead or the people who were undergoing treatment.
He said that LG Polymers had committed a dreadful crime by causing the deaths of so many innocent people, and demanded that the state government book a murder case against the company under Section 302 of the IPC to immediately arrest the representatives of the company.
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(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BEIRUT Sep 12 (KUNA) -- The Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union expressed solidarity with Libya after the deadly flooding that ravaged the eastern region of the country.
In a statement on Tuesday, the AIPU appealed for the Arab countries and the international community to joint forces immediately to provide urgent aid to Libya and help alleviate the impacts of this natural disaster.
The AIPU Presidency offered sincere condolences to the Libyan people and government, expressing sympathy with the families of the victims. (end)
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke to Chief Ministers of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Jharkhand on Thursday about the COVID-19 situation in their states, official sources said.
They said the Prime Minister also spoke to Lieutenant Governors of Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir about the COVID situation in the two union territories.
Andhra Pradesh is among 10 states which account for over 70 per cent cases in the country. According to Health Ministry, Telangana has 77,127 active cases and Andhra Pradesh has 1,70,588 such cases. Odisha has 71,134 and Jharkhand has 59,532 active cases.
The COVID-19 cases have also increased in Puducherry and Jammu and Kashmir during the second wave of virus. Puducherry has 11,717 active cases and Jammu and Kashmir has 39,628 active cases.
Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister undertook a comprehensive review of COVID-19 situation in the country.
He was given a detailed picture on the COVID outbreak in various states and districts. He was informed about the 12 states which have more than 1 lakh active cases and also apprised about the districts with high disease burden.
He was also briefed about the ramping up of healthcare infrastructure by the states. He directed that states should be given help and guidance about leading indicators to ramp up healthcare infrastructure. (ANI)


North Cowichan council has approved a proposed tax increase of 3.2 percent.
In February, staff presented council with some spending options that would have seen the tax rate increase by seven percent if all were implemented.
The municipality was initially proposing the addition of five staff members that would have cost an estimated $505,000 dollars, and Finance Director Mark Frame cut four of the five, keeping the new chief building inspector position.
Mayor Al Siebring said it’s important to keep the rate around the three percent threshold.
“There was some discussion of the psychological importance of keeping the increase at under three percent,” said Siebring. “I gave council the option, ‘I said, we can defeat this and tell staff to come back with some revised numbers that put us at under three percent,’ but there wasn’t the collective appetite to do that.”
Siebring said staff and council have done a good job of keeping the tax increases under three percent in the last few years.
“For the last four years here at North Cowichan, we have kept our increases at under three percent, but the total increase is more than three percent because there are other taxing agencies that we collect for that also show up on that tax bill,” said Siebring.
He said the biggest driver of property tax increases right now is the CVRD, in part, because of the affordable housing and water referendum questions that passed on election night.
Siebring said, with the new RCMP detachment to be built on Drinkwater Road, the municipal portion of the tax bill will likely climb as high as four and a half to five percent in 2020 and 2021.


Washington: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardar has said that Pakistan doesn’t want aid but trade from the United States of America (USA).
In his interview to the news channel of America, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman said that the war against extremisim will continue adding that Afghanistan issue should be addressed joining international community together.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that existing Afghan government has ensured girs education. While he said that in
about the girls education.
He said that he is hopefull that the Afghan government will fulfill its promise regarding women adding that the people of Afghanistan has faced with a lot of problems.
Young FM went on to say that a large number of the Afghan people are facing scarcity of food while he said that we are working with the international community to tackle the Afghan issue.


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Fidelity Bank Limited has donated 1,000 pieces of nose marks to the Greater Accra Secretariat of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) to assist in the prevention of the COVID-19.
Mr Peter Fodjor, the Director of Channels and Sales, who made the presentation on behalf of the Bank in an interview with the Ghana News Agency said the donation was part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility to support the Union to protect their members from the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said the gesture was also to assist the government in its efforts to fight against the virus.
Mr Fodjor said: “In our fight against the pandemic, we need to join hands as stakeholders to successfully reduce the spread and protect the people, especially the GPRTU members who also play the role of frontline workers as they carry passengers to and fro.”
He gave the assurance that the Bank would continue to give its support to compliment government in the fight against the disease.
Mr Ibrahim Abass Moro, the Senior Industrial Relations Officer of the Union who received the items expressed gratitude to the Bank for its demonstration of care for transport operators as they risk their lives in serving the public.
He praised the government for the steps taken to contain the spread of the virus.


US State Dept: reports of Iran deal circulating inaccurate
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) The State Department has denied reports that surfaced earlier Thursday indicating that a draft was circulating on the Iranian nuclear agreement, spokesperson Jen Psaki affirmed to reporters.
"The reports are inaccurate. There's no draft document being circulated," she asserted. "The fundamental framework issues are still under comprehensive discussion, and obviously, that's what the secretary is focused on now during his meetings." Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest in a briefing said that "reports about that, about this matter are not accurate.
"So to start floating out that there are certain aspects of the agreement that may be on a draft resolution or that may be agreed to is - is counterproductive to the negotiations and, in the instance, not accurate."
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THE Government has said construction of the 650 health posts across the country would be completed in April this year.
Health Deputy Minister Chitalu Chilufya said Government was committed to ensuring that health posts are completed and handed over to the public by April. Dr Chilufya said his ministry would this week commission one of the ten newly completed health posts out of the 650 constructed nationwide.
“The construction of 650 health posts that we embarked on last year, will be completed in April this year, Government is committed to ensuring that all the health posts are completed and opened to the public,” he said. He said the first health post would be commissioned in Chipata of Eastern Province, while others would also be opened in April.
He said so far 10 health posts had been completed and would soon be open to members of the public who had to cover long distances to access health services.
He said 157 super-structures of the health posts had been done and were close to completion while 366 health posts were at slab level. Dr Chilufya said the ministry had also sunk 304 boreholes at the sites and construction works were going on well across the country.
President Edgar Lungu last month expressed worry over the slow pace at which the 650 health posts were being constructed across the country and directed that there be progress


Nepal reported 3,167 COVID-19 cases on Saturday.
Kathmandu-Health Ministry Spokesperson Dr Jageshwore Gautam said during the daily press briefing that the total number of cases now has increased to 129,304. The total number of active cases has now reached 38,737.
Similarly, 1,800 persons have recovered in the past 24 hours taking the total to 89,840.
The government has conducted 15,438 PCR tests in the past 24 hours taking the total number of tests to 1,269,605 across the country until now.
Nepal reported 12 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours taking the total death toll to 727.


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Mumbai, June 8 (KNN)
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on Wednesday decided to permit all institutions that undertake factoring business to participate as financiers in Trade Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) platform.
This move intends to improve access to funds for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
“This would augment the availability of financiers on the TReDS platform,” said the regulator.
The Central bank also allowed taking insurance cover for invoicing facilities on the TReDS platform which would aid financiers to hedge default risks.
Accordingly, insurance companies are permitted as the“fourth participant” in TReDS, besides MSME sellers, buyers and financiers.
The insurance facility is likely to encourage discounting of payables of buyers irrespective of their credit ratings.
RBI has also allowed secondary market transactions on the TReDS platform.
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(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Jordan Valley, Nov. 5 (Petra)--Two people were killed and five others injured in a two-vehicle collision in the southern Jordan Valley near the Bromine factory.
Civil Defense Department (CDD) cadres administered first aid to the injured and transferred them to Ghor Al Safi Public Hospital while the dead were evacuated to the Forensic Medicine Department in Karak city to determine the cause of death.
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THE government has pledged to continue addressing challenges facing cooperative societies in the country for farmers to benefit more from the associations.
This was said yesterday in the National Assembly by Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa, adding that cooperatives are very important not only to farmers, but also to the entrepreneurship groups for bringing together farmers and educating them on best farming methods and market search.
However, he admitted that there are still some challenges facing cooperatives in the country, which some of them are caused by poor leadership, where some officials go contrary to what they are expected to do.
He said these officials impose exorbitant levies, giving an example of cashew nut, where some dishonest officials imposed unnecessary levies which affect payments to farmers.
The Premier told the House that the officials take advantage of being the leaders of these cooperatives that is why they impose these levies so that they can make profit, noting that for cashew nut, these officials imposed more than 25 levies, but the government managed to reduce them up to five.
For coffee, the PM said that the officials imposed more than 47 levies and the government intervened and reduced them to only five or six.
“The good thing is that recently the Minister for Agriculture, Hussein Bashe, spent a lengthy time to explain about this issue, highlighting the benefits and importance of cooperatives, because if we want to develop the agriculture sector, the cooperatives can never be avoided,” he said.
The PM was responding to a question from Mbozi legislator, George Ranwell Mwenisongo (CCM) during the questions to the Prime Minister session in Parliament, where he said that there was a time when coffee farmers in the country were forced to sell their products in neighbouring Uganda before the government intervened and improved the pricing system.
The prime minister said that the government is still looking at better ways to improve cooperative services in the country, and assured farmers that services will continue to be improved.


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Some chiefs in Phalombe are asking the government to bring back the shoot to kill stray dogs campaign as way of controlling the spread of rabies.
This was said on Friday in Phalombe during the official launch rabies awareness month when people will be vaccinated their dogs and cats.
The traditional leaders said the stray dogs were responsible for the spread of rabies in the district, saying this is was why they were asking the government to bring back the policy.
Principal secretary in the ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Grey Nyandule Phiri said four people died of rabies in the district last year whilst 545 people had rabies but were successfully treated.
He therefore urged all people to have their pets, dogs and cats, vaccinated to prevent the spread


(MENAFN- UkrinForm) President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has thanked U.S. President Joseph Biden for the package of security assistance in the amount of more than $2 billion.
Zelensky wrote about this on twitter , reports Ukrinform.
"Thank you POTUS for the $2.1 billion security assistance package. We appreciate the strong leadership support of Ukraine in our fight against Russian aggression from the American people," the tweet reads. Read also: us announces new security assistance package to ukraine totaling up to $2.1b
The president noted that against the backdrop of unprecedented terror and ecocide as a result of the explosion at the Kakhovka HPP dam, this batch of assistance is more important than ever.
As Ukrinform reported earlier, the latest package, worth a total of $2.1 billion, includes critical air defense capabilities and munitions and is provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI).
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DUBAI, 4th May, 2022 (WAM) -- Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, Director-General of Dubai Customs and CEO of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, honoured the Dubai Customs' team for participating in the Expo 2020 Dubai during a ceremony at the department's headquarters.
Speaking during the ceremony, Musabih said, 'We are pleased with the success and exceptional version of the Expo 2020 Dubai, and with all who contributed to its success thanks to their dedication, team spirit and hard work. We appreciate their outstanding efforts in protecting the society and ensuring a pleasant visit for all the visitors, and the high professionalism that reflected the UAE's reputation and its ability to organise the largest events in the world.'
He affirmed that Expo 2020 Dubai was an exceptional experience in the successes of the UAE and an international testimony to Dubai as a global capital for work, investment and tourism and the preferred destination for major events.
The success achieved by the UAE in hosting the Expo 2020 Dubai, with more than 24 million visitors, represents a competitive start towards global leadership of trade, tourism, and international investment hubs.
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Saudi- Supreme Court: Today, Thursday is the first day of Muharram 1439 AH
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Riyadh, Muharram 01, 1439, September 21, 2017, SPA --The Supreme Court has announced that today, Thursday is the first day of Muharram,1439 AH corresponding to 21st of September 2017.
It said in its statement that it was proved the sighting of the crescent of the month of Muharram 1439 AH on Wednesday evening 29/12/1438 AH according to the Umm Al-Qura calendar.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State Superintendent Tony Thurmond says social isolation and the effects of COVID-19 have upended education in the California school system and is urging schools to use money allocated to them to invest in their student's mental health.
Thurmond said school districts' have $2 billion in CARES Act money to invest in the mental health and well-being of students and teachers.
He said the pandemic has exacerbated the growing rate of depression and suicide in young people and schools now more than ever need to train their teachers on social and emotional support and hire staff to help their teachers as well.
This why the state superintendent created the "Coalition for School Well-being" -- teaming up with celebrities like filmmaker Ava Duvernay to bring awareness to the need for mental health curriculum and to notify schools of the free social-emotional support that is already available to them.
Thurmond said he is working to expanding Medi-Cal programs so that schools across the state can have more school-based mental health programs.
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President Joe Biden told fellow Indo-Pacific leaders assembled for a four-country summit Tuesday that they were navigating 'a dark hour in our shared history” due to Russia's brutal war on Ukraine and he urged the group to make greater effort to stop Vladimir Putin's aggression.
'This is more than just a European issue. It's a global issue,” Biden said as the 'Quad” summit with Japan, Australia and India got under way.
While the president did not directly call out any countries, his message appeared to be pointed, at least in part, at Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with whom differences persist over how to respond to the Russian invasion.
Unlike other Quad countries and nearly every other U.S. ally, India has not imposed sanctions or even condemned Russia, its biggest supplier of military hardware.
With Modi sitting nearby, Biden made the case that the world has a shared responsibility to do something to assist Ukrainian resistance against Russia's aggression.
'We're navigating a dark hour in our shared history,' he said. 'The Russian brutal and unprovoked war against Ukraine has triggered a humanitarian catastrophe and innocent civilians have been killed in the streets and millions of refugees are internally displaced as well as in exile.”
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Riverland input to aid rebranding scheme
Riverland stakeholders and business leaders say interactive food and wine experiences should be a key focus in the rebranding of South Australia.
The Economic Development Board held a meeting in Berri yesterday, as part of its Rebranding SA initiative.
Premier Jay Weatherill called for the rebranding project, after an overseas visit where he says the state was confused with South Africa and New South Wales.
Patrick Robinson from the Economic Development Board says the key Riverland qualities and experiences discussed at the meeting will be used to develop the brand.
"We're going to use that to identify what is the core message about South Australia that we need to build into the brand, then we are going to use that to develop the brand identity," he said.
Mr Robinson says the meeting focused on what the Riverland has to offer the state.
"There's been a lot of talk about the uniqueness, about the attributes of the Riverland, about what we have to offer in terms of food, wine, produce but also in terms of what we are as a society, what we believe in and what we have to offer as the community of South Australia," he said.


Gunmen have reportedly attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters, Adani in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State.
It was learnt that the attack was said to have happened on Wednesday morning.
Two of the police officers on duty were reportedly killed and several others injured, while the police station was burnt.
Source confirmed that the attack on the police station started at about 2:30 am and lasted for about one hour.
It was further learnt that the police station was burnt.
Police stations in the South-East and some states in the South-South have been attacked, recently by assailants.


Parliamentarian Patali Champika Ranawaka emphasizes that the country needs unique solutions to solve the prevalent crisis.
Speaking to media, MP Ranawaka noted that prices of all essential food items have increased almost three times compared to the year 2020.
MP Champika Ranawaka stressed that all sectors in the country have been affected due to the fuel crisis.
The Parliamentarian said people cannot afford essentials at present while the gas shortage has hit the urban population hard. He said even the farmers are struggling due to the fuel shortage.
MP Ranawaka noted farmers in the Ampara district and many other areas are struggling to secure their harvest, as vehicles used by them cannot obtain fuel.
He said the fuel shortage is also affecting vehicles transporting food as well as container operations.
MP Ranawaka said the fuel shortage will also contribute to the impending food crisis in the country.
Parliamentarian Patali Champika Ranawaka also noted that according to experts, the export income of the country is expected to reduce by about 25 percent this year.
MP Ranawaka said similar to the effect the fertilizer ban had on the export industries such as tea; the current fuel shortage and the dollar crisis will have a major impact.
MP Ranawaka said several companies could collapse as a result.
He added foreign remittances still remain low and in comparison to times when Sri Lanka received large amounts of dollars from expatriate workers, remittances have reduced by around 50 percent.
The Parliamentarian noted the number of flights landing in the country has also reduced by about 50 percent due to various issues.


WARSAW Warsaw residents will have to keep on buying eggs at the store.
The council voted against a measure that would have allowed chickens in city limits.
It was a close vote – 4 to 3, according to Stacey Page Online. It was their third and final vote on the issue.
In the first two meetings, the vote was split. Stacey Page Online reports the first vote was 3-2 against, and the second was 4-3 in favor.


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ISLAMABAD: Federal Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has revealed that Indians were also issued special visas along with Americans during the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government.
The minister said that the PPP government issued visas to Indians from Dubai.
He said that the address of Zardari House in Dubai was mentioned on the Indian visa applications.
Kh Asif said that a parliamentary committee would be constituted to investigate the matter.
Earlier, a document revealed that the PPP government had authorized former ambassador the US Hussain Haqqani to issue special visas to Americans.


Victoria Oil looks further afield after first profit in Cameroon
(MENAFN- ProactiveInvestors - UK) Cameroon-based gas utility Victoria Oil & Gas (LON:VOG) has posted its first profit as revenues from its Logbaba field rose strongly.
Profits for the seven months to December were US$1.63mln, while revenues for the period rose to US$21.4mln. That compares with revenues of US$27.9mln for the 12 months to May. Victoria Oil has changed its year end to December. Victoria Oil is targeting industrial customers in the city of Douala and on a comparable basis sold 1.736mmscf (millions cubic feet) of gas (846mmscf) for the seven months. Daily production was 8.57mmscf/d (3.95mmscf/d comparable) at contract prices of between US$9 to US$16/mmbtu for its gas. Operating cash flows were strong, which the group has used to reduce debt, it said. Kevin Foo, chairman, added that Victoria Oil is starting to look at other opportunities within Africa that can be leveraged by our experience in Cameroon. 'Our plan is to focus on the development phase of projects and enter at a point post discovery of gas and prior to development of the field.'
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Kuwait- Filipino held at border with 16,000 drug pills
(MENAFN- Arab Times) KUWAIT CITY, April 16: A Filipino man was arrested at Abdali border checkpoint for attempting to smuggle 16,000 narcotic pills locally known as Kabti into the country. According to sources, Abdali customs officers checked a truck that arrived at Abdali border checkpoint from Iraq and found 16,000 narcotic pills hidden in the truck. They arrested the Filipino driver and referred him with the confiscated narcotic pills to the concerned authorities for investigations and necessary legal action against him.
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AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad district officials have begun the process of acquiring land for a six-lane road that will connect Ahmedabad to Dholera's special investment region
Sources said that the land acquisition
for the metro project connecting city and Dholera SIR has also begun simultaneously. Officials said that in all 9.16 lakh sq metre land will be acquired for the two projects.
The state government had in mid-September - just before the elections were announced - put on the fast track the work for introducing six town planning (TP) schemes across the 902 sq km area of the Dholera SIR.
The government has also announced that Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad-Dholera stretch will be covered in two legs, from Gandhinagar to Ahmedabad and from Ahmedabad to Dholera by metro.
Elevated metro has been proposed for the 100 km stretch. This will provide faster movement and will be important for the new international airport which is coming up in the region.
The metro has also been approved under DMIC master plan
by the central government.
Officials said that the land is being acquired expeditiously as the work is expected to commence by January.


The government should have done more to bridge the health and social care divide during the recent period of investment in the NHS, a Conservative peer said yesterday.
In a House of Lords debate on health and social care, Baroness Gardner of Parkes said this would have helped tackle the NHS funding crisis, which has resulted in cost-shunting to social services.
Parkes, joint chair of the all-party parliamentary group on primary care and public health, said this would continue until the divide was eliminated between tax-funded health care and charged-for and means-tested social care.
She also suggested that the importance of social care would be better recognised if the Department of Health had the term in its title.
Her all-party group, and its equivalent on social care, published a report last year calling for significant rises in social care investment in the comprehensive spending review and an inquiry into the impact of home care charges.


Elliot Jacobson named swimming MVP
The Alexandria boys’ swimming and diving team handed out its season-ending awards at its banquet recently with senior Elliot Jacobson being named the Cardinals’ team MVP.
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Panaj: Even as the minister in Goa’s BJP-led government on Tuesday accused the government officials of being lethargic towards their performance, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that the ministers have right to pull the government officials.
State Ports Minister and BJP MLA Michael Lobo on Tuesday alleged that the water supply and electricity is ‘very poor’ in the tourist belt of North Goa. He claimed that the officials attached to State Public Works Department and Electricity Department were lethargic in their duties.
“The officers of PWD and Electricity Department are not giving proper feedback to the State government due to which the situation on electricity and water front in the coastal belt is very poor,” the minister said.
He stated that the water supply pipelines, which were installed in 80s, were not replaced resulting in several problems.
Lobo stated that the concerned ministers are not to be blamed as the officers are keeping them in dark.
Reacting to the allegations, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant told reporters that the minister (Lobo) has right to pull the government officers, if they are found to be lethargic in their duties.
“Minister can call the government officer and ask them to work,” he said while adding that efforts are on to augment water and electricity supply to the coastal belt.


By Fostina Mkandawire
Malawi President Arthur Peter Mutharika says the United Nations (UN) is appalled by the violent conduct of some individuals in the country.
Mutharika was speaking Saturday afternoon at Kamuzu International Airport in Lilongwe on arrival from New York, USA where he attended the 74th UN General Assembly (UNGA).
There has been political tension since May 21 elections which saw Mutharika declared winner by the Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC).
Opposition Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Party disputed the results and went to court saying the polls were flaudulent and marred by irregularities.
The President said the UN will soon release a statement to help address the situation the country is currently in.
Mutharika said it was expected of him to address the UNGA on all aspects surrounding the country including the current political tension.
He said the major challenge he mentioned to the house was the political tension which is a result of some opposition parties’ failure to accept the election results.
“I explained to the assembly on how the opposition political leaders are failing to accept the elections,” he said.
Mutharika said the elections were declared free and fair by international observers who were present during the electoral process.
He said the UN observers were part of the monitoring team present in the country during the May 21 tripartite elections.
The President said apart from addressing the General Assembly on the political situation in the country, he also highlighted some of the developmental projects being implemented in the country.
“I highlighted development projects that government is implementing such as the economic development [and] community projects,” he said.
This was Mutharika’s sixth UNGA to attend and he addressed the assembly on Thursday, 26th September 2019.-MANA


Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Gajendra Singh Shekhawat exhorted the farmers of north-eastern states to focus on cash crops especially horticulture and floriculture to boost their ordeal.
Shekhawat was speaking at a programme at Prajna Bhavan in Agartala of Tripura.
Asserting that the Narendra Modi led government has been working for the welfare and uplifting the socio-economic condition of the people of the Northeast, he said that the region has witnessed a lot of development activities during the past four years.
He also said that gone are the days when the people of the north-eastern region felt alienated from the rest of the country.
Shekhwat further said that the ‘Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana’ has brought cheers among the farmers despite nature’s fury – flash flood, erosion and drought to farming sector.
Shekhawat while highlighting the benefit of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana said that it will have a good impact on the farmer life.
The Union Minister also exhorted the farmers to adopt modern techniques to double their yield.
He also hoped that pineapple growers will get a good price as the state government has decided to promote queen variety of pineapples nationwide and also import the same to middle east countries.


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Limpopo Health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba says the Capricorn TVET students who have recently returned from China and were tested for the covid-19 strain of coronavirus will know their results by Friday.
Ramathuba says she met with the students on Tuesday and health officials took their swabs for testing at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases’ facilities.
The meeting comes after the students expressed their concerns earlier that they were neither screened nor quarantined upon their return from China.
Ramathuba says both health and social development practitioners will counsel them when the results are released, further noting that positive results will be forwarded to Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize.
Speaking on Progressive Talk on Wednesday, the MEC said they are on standby to counsel and test more students as they return from China.


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Kwale County Commissioner Gideon Oyagi has claimed that candidates are purchasing identity cards from voters ahead of Tuesday’s elections.
Mr Oyagi said that authorities had received reports that candidates were targeting voter IDs in their opponents’ strongholds.
Buying the IDs means their opponents will have fewer people voting for them, thus reducing their chances of winning.
“This is a dangerous move that is denying voters their democratic right to vote,” he said.
He said this was an electoral offence and anyone found committing the crime would be arrested. He cautioned residents against falling prey to such illegalities.
“We are working together with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to have those who are involved in this vice punished,” he said.
He asked people who have been approached to sell their documents to report the cases to the police.
More security officers have also been deployed across the county.
“No police officer is on leave. We will also be working round the clock to ensure that there is a conducive environment for the elections and that they are peaceful,” he said.
The IEBC has also been briefing candidates on preparations for the polls.
Msambweni Returning Officer Omara Japheth assured the public that the elections will be free and fair.
“We have agreed that we will work closely with the candidates, including their agents, so that the voting and the counting processes are smooth. They must follow all election rules” he said.
In Lamu, voters have been assured of security during the elections.
County Commissioner Irungu Macharia said Mkomani, Hindi, Faza and Baharini wards are on police radar.
“We’ve also identified some politicians who we feel are a threat to peace and unity here. We’re tracking them and their activities day and night to ensure they don’t incite citizens,” Mr Machaira said.


Prime Minister takes detailed feedback of Covid situation from Jai Ram Thakur
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Shimla , 08 May 2021
Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said here today that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took a detailed feedback from him telephonically regarding the Covid-19 situation in the State. Jai Ram Thakur said that the Prime Minister inquired from him regarding the number of Covid-19 cases in the State, availability of oxygen, beds, oxygen cylinders, vaccine, essential medicines and logistics. Chief Minister said that the Prime Minister also assured him all possible assistance from the Centre and all the logistic support to the State Government to effectively fight the pandemic.Chief Minister said that he apprised the Prime Minister about all the steps and initiatives taken by the State Government to check spread of this pandemic, besides providing best possible treatment to the Covid-19 patients. He urged the Prime Minister to enhance the Oxygen quota for the State from the existing 15 MT to 30 MT so as to meet the increasing requirement of the State. He said that he also urged the Prime Minister to provide additional oxygen cylinders to the State. He also apprised the Prime Minister that the State Government has already requested the Union Government to provide 5000 D-Type and 3000 B-Type cylinders to the State. Jai Ram Thakur said that he also apprised the Prime Minister regarding the vaccination campaign going on in the State. He said that he also urged the Prime Minister to provide adequate vaccine to the State so that the campaign of vaccinating the people in the age group of 18 to 44 years could be started. Chief Minister said that the Prime Minister also suggested the State Government to focus on those districts where the positivity rate was higher and death rate was also increasing sharply.


By KETRA KALUNGA
INEPT investigative agencies are fooling Zambians by being active now that jobs are at stake, Citizens Democratic Party (CDP) president Robert Mwanza has said.
Mr. Mwanza said the fast pace at which the law enforcement agencies were going shows that they were in fear of losing their jobs because they have been moribund all along despite being given a leeway to probe public officials by the previous regime.
He said in an interview that it sends a very wrong signal of how law enforcement agencies operate, for them to start pursuing former government officials now that there was a new government in place.
“Where have they been all this time to start operating like they are newly created institutions?” Mr Mwanza questioned.
Mr. Mwanza said the constitution allowed DEC, ACC and other investigative wings to pursue any person who has erred, whether from the private sector or government institutions.
He wondered whether law enforcement agencies would keep the momentum when the new government settles or go back to their old ways of sitting back and accuse a sitting government that they were being intimidated
“The fear now is that when this government settles, do we see them continue going at the rate at which they are going right now in pursuing people, or are they going to go back to their old ways of sitting back and accuse a sitting government that they are being intimidated,” he said.
Mr. Mwanza said what people want is continuity because the moment they are going to relax then the public would know that the problem is not a sitting government but themselves.
He said the behaviour being portrayed by the law enforcement agencies of being seen to be working just because there is a new government was not good for the country and their institutions.
“Why they were not doing their work at the time we don’t know and we don’t want to hear a situation whereby they are saying maybe they were intimidated by the sitting government at that time, this should not be the case because they are protected by the constitution,” Mr. Mwanza said.


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Discretionary Grant Funding
Each year City Council allocates $14,400 to support the community through the distribution of discretionary grants. Eligible local community groups or organizations that can demonstrate financial need and a positive impact on the community are encouraged to apply.
2022 Discretionary Grant Funding
The application intake period for the 2022 budget year is now closed.
Applications for the 2023 budget year will open in Fall 2022.


A surge in infections at Swedish hospitals has raised concerns about the nation’s health care system, a public health system that is facing a $1 trillion budget shortfall.
Swedish health officials said Friday they were looking at how to handle the influx of patients.
In Sweden, where a major health care provider, the Swedish Cancer Society, is based, there have been nearly 5,000 new infections in the past six months.
“We had a large influx of people coming into the hospitals, so we had to make a decision,” said Laila Vang, an epidemiologist at the Swedish hospital association, which represents Sweden’s top three hospitals.
Sweden has been grappling with an increase in infections, particularly among patients with cancer, which has surpassed the 1,000-bed threshold.
More than 1,300 new cases of coronavirus were reported in Sweden in the first half of 2018.
In some areas, such as Stockholm and the city of Gothenburg, new infections have jumped nearly 50 percent, the country’s largest city.
Swedish Health Minister Peter Hultqvist said the country should work to contain the new coronaviruses and treat those who become infected.
“I don’t think that there is any way that we can ignore this,” he told The Associated Press.
Hultvring said the government was in the process of examining ways to prevent more infections.
“If we can do this, we have to.”
The new coronajvirus outbreak has been particularly devastating for Sweden’s health system.
It has prompted the country to slash its hospital beds by a third.
The country has also been grappling for years with the issue of immigration and has faced criticism from international health organizations over the long-term consequences of such decisions.
The government said Thursday it would introduce a cap on the number of immigrants it would allow to enter the country.
In March, the government raised the limit to 1 million.


Osakis boys name Fearing MVP
After doubling its win total from last year, the Osakis boys’ basketball team reflected on an improved season and handed out team awards at the school’s annual Winter Sports Banquet.
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According to a new survey, 94 per cent IT professionals said that they had suffered psychological abuse as opposed to 57 percent who reported verbal abuse.
A new survey has revealed that 74 per cent Information technology (IT) professionals have admitted to being bullied at work.
The survey results were based on the responses given by 650 IT professionals, Enterprise Innovation reported.
While 80 per cent of the professionals said that they have seen others being bullied at workplace, only 8 per cent admitted to bullying others.
Forty-five per cent of the professionals also chose not to answer the question.
A large group of people comprising 94 per cent of the total said that they had suffered psychological abuse as opposed to 57 per cent who reported verbal abuse.
About eight percent reported physical abuse.
In a majority of cases (74 per cent), the IT professionals were bullied by their seniors.
Sixty-seven percent of the professionals were bullied by an individual as opposed to 33 per cent who were bullied by groups.


Nawaz Sharif`s govt to continue Benazir’s reconciliation policy
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif has said that his government will continue the policy of reconciliation initiated by former PM Benazir Bhutto.
Islamabad: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has said that his government will continue the policy of reconciliation initiated by former premier Benazir Bhutto.
Sharif, who was addressing the media after a meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari, said it is time for the political leadership and state institutions to join hands to overcome the challenges being faced by the country.
Zardari expressed confidence that after political transition the new government would successfully address the problems and issues facing the country, reports the Daily Times.
Sharif said people have elected him to serve the nation and he will make all possible efforts to live up to their expectations.
The President said that Sharif would enjoy full cooperation from the Presidency as prime minister.


U.S. Buckles Down on Rate-Fixing Case
The U.S. Justice Department has identified potential crimes committed by several big banks — including Barclays — and their employees amid a global investigation into the Libor scandal, in which financial institutions allegedly rigged interest rates. Authorities supposedly have plans to charge one big bank this year.
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Kuwait condemns Samarra terrorist bombing
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) KUWAIT, Sept 2 (KUNA) -- Kuwait on Saturday strongly condemned the terrorist bombing that targeted a power station in the Iraqi city of Samarra, killing and injuring several people.
In a press statement, a senior Foreign Ministry source reaffirmed Kuwait's full support to all measures taken by Iraqi government to maintain the country's security and stability. The source emphasized Kuwait's rejection of terrorism and all its forms and manifestations. The source also expressed condolences for the Iraqi government and people, and wished speedy recovery for the injured.
At least six people were killed and seven others were injured in the suicide bombing attack on Samarra power station early today. (end) mmj.ibi
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Suri: At least 27 policemen and six villagers were injured in pitched battles early on Tuesday in West Bengal`s Birbhum district, officials said.
Residents of the Loba village in the Khairasole police station area attacked the police party which went there early today to recover a earth-moving machine of a project which was forcibly kept by the villagers.
West Bengal Home secretary Basudeb Banerjee told reporters in Kolkata that 27 policemen and six villagers were injured in the clash.
He said that the police did not resort to firing and had shown patience.
Banerjee said that DVC-EMTA was working on a project there and there was some dispute with the local people following which the villagers kept the earth-moving machine.
He said that the injured were being treated at Suri hospital and Burdwan medical college hospital.
The home secretary said that the district magistrate has been asked to take steps to resolve the problem through dialogue.
Leader of Opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra claimed that the police had opened fire.
"There was no reason to open fire, but the police has resorted to firing", he said in Kolkata in his initial reaction to the incident.
Saying that they were in the process of gathering more information, the CPI-M leader demanded an inquiry into the incident.
State Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya said quoting villagers that the police had opened fire, although the police denied it.
".....Then from where did the bullets come. It will be revealed only if an inquiry was ordered," Bhattacharya said.


The Indian Government has said that it has worked out a plan that will be discussed with the State Governments to finance their loss-making electricity boards, media reported.
Commenting on the issue, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told the media, "There was a meeting last week. The plan has been brought out by the power ministry. The power ministry is going to speak to the defaulting state electricity boards and the governments of those states with regard to the plan that has been made."
"The states will have to finance them. After we have negotiated that with the plans, then we will go ahead," he added.
As per reports, expressing concern over the financial health of some state-owned power distribution companies (discoms), the Finance Minister also said that some states were not levying adequate electricity tariff.
His comments come against the backdrop of many discoms facing financial stress that has also resulted in rising non-performing assets in the banking sector.


Miners to benefit from Covid-19 relief fund
Current and former mineworkers will benefit from R1m donated by the Ubank and Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC) towards Covid-19 relief efforts.
This comes as the two companies announced that they have partnered together to donate R2m to combat the negative financial impacts Covid-19 have brought to some South Africans.
Another R1m will be contributed to the solidarity fund.
Ubank chairperson Keshan Pillay said the R1m dedicated to support mineworkers and their families will be in the form of food parcels.
“Ubank will work with its partners, the MIC and national Union of Mineworkers (NUM), to ensure that these funds are stretched to support as many families as possible.
"The contribution will benefit the needy families from areas where the mineworkers reside or come from as well as the poorest families from the labour intensive areas. Food parcels are the most effective route as this will help reduce unnecessary movement of our people and as such it will help mineworkers and their communities to abide by the lockdown protocols,” Pillay said.
MIC chief executive officer Mary Bomela said the organisation recognises the hardship the Covid-19 will bring to their beneficiaries.
“Through the mineworkers development agency, we will ensure that the collective contribution is effectively administered to ensure that we do our part to relieve food shortages for mineworkers, their families and surrounding communities,” Bomela said.
NUM general secretary David Sipunzi said they saluted the alliance between Ubank and MIC as it was directed at the most vulnerable.


Iraq bans Facebook amid growing protests
(MENAFN) Possibly to halt the spread of information over the protests and in the wake of growing protest in southern provinces, the Iraqi government has imposed a blockade on Facebook across the country.
The social media platform, which is the most popular in Iraq, has also been blocked in the Kurdistan Region while it remains safe and away from protests.
It is not clear yet for how long the social media blockade is planned.
Tension has been building on in southern Iraqi provinces over rising unemployment and repeated power outages.
Roughly 80 percent of Iraq's overall crude oil exports originate from oilfields in Basra province, which its residents have complained that foreign nationals, rather than locals, were being employed by the domestic energy sector.
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Hefty sentence for tax evader
LYNCHBURG — A Winchester man who tried to conceal more than $1.4 million in income from 1999 to 2007 will serve 48 months in federal prison.
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Next fall's kindergarten numbers at 65
Wadena-Deer Creek Superintendent Virginia Dahlstrom informed the District 2155 board Monday night that kindergarten numbers for the 2013-2014 school year were at 65 as of April 15.
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AHMEDABAD: Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Hardik Patel. who has been on fast since the past 13 days, was on Friday taken to a hospital after his health deteriorated.
Hardik has been on an indefinite hunger strike since August 25 demanding reservation for Patidar community and loan waiver for farmers. On Thursday night, he even gave up taking water.
PAAS had given Gujarat government a 24-hour ultimatum to initiate talks with him over their demands. But as the government remained unmoved after the ultimatum expired at 7 pm on Thursday night, the 25-year-old Patel gave up water.
He had earlier also given up drinking water but when his health started deteriorating after seven days of his fast, he was persuaded by leaders to start drinking water.
PAAS had said that the state government will be responsible for the consequences if Hardik's health deteriorates. PAAS spokesman Manoj Panara alleged that the samiti had "definite information" that the state government was "conspiring to kill Hardik" as a warning to all those who dared raised their voice "against the autocratic rule of the BJP".
He said the government hospital doctors, who were appointed to monitor Hardik Patel's health, had started claiming that his kidney, heart and several other organs had been "infected" but the private medical practitioners had refuted the claim.
Meanwhile, the state government has maintained that the agitation was sponsored by the Congress.


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Algiers, Rabi'II 3, 1439, Dec 21, 2017, SPA -- Speaker of Shoura Council Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Ibrahim Al Al-Sheikh concluded his four-day official visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Algeria.
Upon leaving Houari Boumediene International Airport, Dr. Al Al-Sheikh was seen off by Speaker of Algerian National Assembly Abdelkader bin Saleh.
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Punjab’s Caretaker Information Minister Aamir Mir has claimed that the father-in-law of banned TTP commander Mullah Fazlullah was also present in Zaman Park during the arrest of Imran Khan.
Speaking in today’s news program “Rubro”, caretaker information minister Punjab Aamir Mir said that the administration of Punjab held talks with PTI, and an administrative agreement has also been reached on the order of the court, according to which PTI If she has to hold a meeting, she will take permission from the administration 15 days in advance.
Amir Mir said that according to the agreement PTI will conduct an audit of the guard posted in Zaman Park. If something untoward happens, the blame will fall on the government.
The caretaker information minister said that cases were registered against those who attacked the police on March 14 and 15, 24 people have been arrested from Lahore, more than 200 people have been identified from the footage, those who attacked the police. Action will be taken against, the agreement with PTI also states that PTI will cooperate with the police in the cases against the accused, no area will be allowed to become a nogo area.
Aamir Mir claimed that intelligence had received information about Zaman Park that there were terrorists inside, including people from Sufi Muhammad’s jihadist organization and Mullah Fazlullah’s father-in-law.
The caretaker information minister said that they have been raising voice for the rights of Pashtuns and Balochs, no party will be allowed to pretend to be a non-state actor.
Aamir said that if the state wants, arrest can be made in 5 minutes, but we are not the state but the caretaker government, Islamabad police had to comply with the warrant and we provided them support. During this time 64 police personnel were injured, action will be taken against those who challenged the state writ, we are trying to avoid any bloodshed, but action will be taken.


Fourteen abducted students of Greenfield University students have been released after months.
Channels Television reports that the students were released on Saturday afternoon at a location along the Kaduna- Abuja highway.
It was gathered that the chairman of the Parents Forum, Markus Zarmai, and few others were expected to receive the students at the drop-off location, the TV station reported.
The parents also disclosed that ransome was paid and eight motorcycles were also bought before the students were released.
Meanwhile, Kaduna State Government and police authorities are yet to confirm the development.
Recall that twenty-two student was kidnapped, five have been killed so far by the bandits while others were released.


IgbereTV reports that South Africa on Wednesday recorded a total of 2,605 cases of Covid-19, barely a week after President Ramaphosa of South Africa extended the country’s 21-day lockdown by another two weeks.
Last week, beore the lockdown extension, the number of Covid-19 cases in the country stood at 1,934 which was 1,170 as at the 27th of March, 2020.
“As of today, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is 2,605,” said Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.
South Africa, which has the largest number of coronavirus cases in Africa has now recorded 48 deaths.
Mkhize also stated that 903 people had recovered, adding the heath sector is encouraged by the increasing number of patients recovering from COVID-19.
“We also note that the number of tests being conducted continues to rise, with the total number of tests conducted to date being 95,060,” he said.


System will change only by changing leadership, says Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Sirajul Haq
LAHORE (92 News) – Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Sirajul Haq has said that the system will change only by changing the leadership.
Addressing a labourers’ convention in Lahore on Monday, he said that all the people talk about the bad system, but in fact 500 people in the parliament and Senate are the system.
The people should change these political pundits. “The present system is destruction for the poor,” he maintained.
He said that the people should support the Nizam-e-Mustafa. “We will give a subsidy to the people getting salary less than Rs 30,000.”
The JI chief said that the government should give the rights to labourers before a sea of labourers heads towards Islamabad.
He said that loadshedding is an outcome of mismanagement of the government.
“The per unit cost is Re 1, but the price of Rs 18 per unit is charged from the consumers,” he said.


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ADEN, 31st December, 2017 (WAM) -- Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, President of Yemen, has praised the role of the Arab Coalition in supporting the legitimacy in Yemen, by achieving victories over the Iranian-backed Houthis militias.
This came during a phone call with Chief of General Staff of Yemen, Major General Dr. Taher Al-Aqili, the Yemen News Agency has reported.
President Hadi praised the Arab coalition countries, led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, for supporting Yemeni during such extreme circumstances alongside their brothers in Yemen.
He also highlighted the victories by the Yemeni Armed Forces in Nihm and Al Jawf districts, where they have liberated them from the Houthis militias.
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( MENAFN ) Jubail Commercial Port posted a 20 percent growth in the total weight cargo transported via its port during the first six months of 2014 reaching 5 of,075,054 tons, up from 4,244,648 tons during the same period 2013, according to Arab News.
Captain Fahd bin Ahmed Al-Amer, director general of Jubail Commercial Port, said that the total tonnage of liquid bulk cargo exports and imports were 1,693,001 tons in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2013 when it was 1,132,343 tons, which is 50 percent higher.
Meanwhile, the general cargo exports and imports dropped by 38 percent where it scored 579,738 tons by the end of June this year compared to 927,645 tons in the first half of 2013.
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Seeking investment in India, the Prime Minister said that the rise of India means the rise in trade opportunities with a nation you can trust.
PM Modi said that the bilateral partnership can help the world bounce back after the pandemic.Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged the US firms to invest in India and said that now is the best time to invest. Listing out opportunities in the fields of energy, infrastructure, defence, agriculture, healthcare, etc, Narendra Modi said that the bilateral partnership can help the world bounce back after the pandemic. He added that India and the US are two vibrant democracies with shared values and both are natural partners. Speaking at India Ideas Summit on the theme ‘Building a Better Future’, PM Modi further said that for the first time ever in India, there are more rural internet users than urban internet users.
Half a billion people are connected in India and there are immense opportunities in 5G, big data analytics, blockchain, and IoT, he added. Seeking investment in India, the Prime Minister also said that the rise of India means the rise in trade opportunities with a nation you can trust. Stating the possibilities of growth, Narendra Modi said that India celebrates openness in people and government, while an open mind makes an open market, the open market leads to greater prosperity and these are the principles of growth.
In the summit hosted by the US-India Business Council, India’s minister of external affairs, S Jaishankar yesterday said that the US has to learn to work in a more multipolar world, with the more plurilateral relationship and go beyond the alliances of the last two generations. He had added that between India and the US, we need to think bigger while we work through trade issues.
Meanwhile, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, was awarded the USIBC Global Corporate Leadership award in the event and Jim Taiclet, CEO of Lockheed Martin won the USIBC Global Corp Leadership award. India needs to have more legal reforms to speed up timelines of litigation and need to continue to build up infrastructure including digital infra in India, said Jim Taiclet.


(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) BRUSSELS, Nov 23 (KUNA) -- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that he has asked all NATO allies to contribute more to the global fight against terrorism and to build defence capacity and training activities in Iraq.
Speaking at a press conference after a meeting with Estonian President, Kersti Kaljulaid, at NATO headquarters, he noted that the Alliance has sent mobile training teams to Iraq for training in medicine, countering improvised explosive devices and help them to organize defence institutions and maintenance of military equipment.
"We are looking into what more we can do because we strongly believe that when (so-called Islamic State) IS is defeated we continue to make sure that Iraq is able to stabilize its own country," he said.
"We have asked our allies to help those training activities," added the NATO chief.
Responding to a question on a recent incident when Turkey withdrew from a NATO exercise in Norway, Stoltenberg said "NATO military authorities are now investigating the details of what happened and are also looking into the procedure to make sure that something like this do not happen again." The NATO chief said he phoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and expressed his apologies over the incident.
Turkey withdrew 40 of its soldiers participating in the drills at NATO's Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger, Norway, after Turkey's founding leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and Erdogan, were depicted as "enemies." Meanwhile, Stoltenberg praised Estonia for its contribution to the NATO mission in Afghanistan with troops, and for providing funds to finance the Afghan national security forces.
He also announced that Estonia is ready to contribute to the southern flank of NATO which is a new hub established by the Alliance in Naples, Italy, to help in the fight against terrorism.
On her part, Kaljulaid told the joint press conference that Estonia have been participating in international missions far from its borders since many years.
"Our cooperation (with NATO) this year has been very fruitful," she noted. (end) nk.ibi
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Government: More migrants will come to Britain
(MENAFN) The British government has unveiled its economic development strategy, which calls for tax cuts and higher immigration to get the nation out of recession. The administration of Prime Minister Liz Truss wants to bring in more foreign skilled, unskilled, and seasonal workers even though she has pledged to tighten down on unauthorized immigration to the United Kingdom.
The government's growth plan, which was unveiled by Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday, includes the steepest tax cuts in 50 years, with the highest earners expecting a drop in the top rate of income tax from 45 percent to 40 percent and lower-paid workers anticipating a drop in the basic rate from 20 percent to 19 percent. The program is anticipated to cost the United Kingdom pound161 billion (USD174 billion) over the next five years when combined with aid for Britons with skyrocketing energy costs.
Kwarteng plans to reduce this expense by hiring a ton of foreign workers in the United Kingdom. The chancellor's proposal declares that "the government will set out a plan in the coming weeks to ensure the immigration system supports growth whilst maintaining control," asserting that immigration "plays an important role in economic growth, productivity, and innovation."
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Zamfara Records Index Case Of COVID-19
Zamfara State has recorded its first cases of COVID-19, according to Governor Bello Matawalle
Matawalle said he received a report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday night informing him that two residents in the state had been infected with Coronavirus.
The governor stressed that the state had prepared two isolation centres and also purchased all relevant equipment for the fight against the pandemic.
He advised people of the state to take more proactive measures to prevent the spread of the pandemic.
Matawalle said his administration had already banned all gatherings including the Ramadan night prayers, adding that the people of the state had been urged to abide by the social distancing rule.


(MENAFN) Turkish household appliances giant Arcelik declared it has inked a contract with Whirlpool EMEA for the obtains of Indesit International JSC and Whirlpool LLC.
In line with an announcement on Tuesday from Arcelik, Indesit JSC and Whirlpool LLC are active in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Belarus as well as Mongolia.
The statement mentioned that "As of closing date, all shares of Indesit JSC and Whirlpool LLC will be directly owned, and their wholly owned subsidiary Whirlpool Kazakhstan LLP's shares will be indirectly owned, by Arcelik."
The attained companies have services in the western Russian district of Lipetsk with a whole output volume of 2.8 million units of refrigerators in addition to laundry products -- and nearly 2,500 workforces.
Arcelik also stated that "The cost of the acquisition will be no greater than an amount to be determined based on the figures within the closing balance sheet, including fixed assets and working capital, which based on the current financial information of the companies is expected to be approximately 220 million Euro [USD233 million]."
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Grade 4 students took the time to pay attention to their feelings and express situations they associate with certain emotions. They were asked to think about their ‘Red Zones’ and their ‘Green Zones’. The students took time to reflect on how they know when they are feeling in the ‘Red’ zone and what they notice happens to their body. Students discussed some of the things that might take them to the ‘Red Zone. They were then asked to compare their state of mind when they are in the ‘Green Zone’. They discussed the differences in their body and mind, particularly paying attention to their emotions, as well as the physical differences.
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A new poll finds that almost half of people surveyed think ObamaCare has had a negative impact on the country.
According to the Bankrate.com survey, 43 percent of people view the healthcare law's effects so far as unfavorable while 28 percent have a positive view of the law.
Bankrate also asked people about a recent study by S&P Capital IQ that found some of the largest U.S. corporations will likely move their employees from employer-provided health insurance plans to those offered under ObamaCare, saving up to $800 billion in the next decade.
The study also found that ObamaCare would give employees more autonomy over their insurance plans.
When asked about the study’s findings that the healthcare law will increase job mobility, 30 percent of those polled by Bankrate.com said this would have a negative impact on the country versus only 14 percent who thought the impact would be positive.
The Bankrate.com poll found that 23 percent of those surveyed who have employer-sponsored health insurance are more likely to retire early or leave their jobs because of the new law, and those with household incomes between $50,000 and $75,000 are the most likely to leave their job because of ObamaCare.
However, 65 percent of those surveyed also said the ability to take their health insurance with them made no difference on whether they chose to leave their job.


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New York, NY, May 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- interpublic group (NYSE: IPG) today announced that the company's Board of Directors has declared a quarterly dividend on IPG common stock of $0.31 per share, payable on June 20, 2023, to holders of record at the close of business on June 6, 2023.
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(MENAFN- UkrinForm) In Mariupol, which is temporarily occupied by the Russian military, local residents have reported about a powerful explosion.
The Mariupol City Council wrote on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.
'A powerful blast in Mariupol! At 15:40, a loud explosion rang out in occupied Mariupol. The whole city heard it. Local residents reported this. Details will be provided later,' the city council said.
As Ukrinform reported, Mariupol experiences one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes caused by Russia's aggression. The city was almost completely destroyed by enemy shelling.
Currently, Mariupol has no normal power, water and gas supplies. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, up to 22,000 civilians have died in the city. More than 50,000 people have been deported to Russia and the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region.
Mariupol is on brink of environmental disaster and outbreak of infectious diseases.
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Senate Ag Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow applauds USDA for its continued commitment to combatting the spread of PEDv – which has impacted pork producers across the country. USDA has moved forward with a new vaccine that is expected to combat PEDv and has issued a conditional license for the vaccine. Stabenow says the unmitigated spread of the virus not only threatens the agricultural economy – but also has serious implications for the national economy as consumers and businesses will all feel the impact of diminishing swine herds. She says the pork industry supports nearly 550,000 jobs across the U.S. and contributes 34.5-bilion dollars to the U.S. economy.
USDA’s efforts to help control the spread of the virus will go a long way in stabilizing the potential fallout for consumers and businesses – according to Stabeno
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Mineral water bottles sold at five star hotels and upscale eateries should not charge more than the MRP and the West Bengal government would strictly enforce it, minister for consumer affairs Sadhan Pande said.
“The Centre has given directive that mineral water bottles cannot be charged more than its MRP at five star hotels and other places”, Pande told at an interaction at MCCI told PTI.
According to a PTI report: He said that the state government, being the implementing arm here, would strictly ensure that and strict action would be taken against the offenders.
Pande later told reporters that the government had tried to explain the authorities of the hotels and the eating joints to abide by the rule.
“Else the government will take strict action,” he was further quoted by PTI as saying.
Regarding online shopping, he said that his department had received complains from customers saying that deliveries made were different from what had been ordered.
“I appeal to the e-commerce firms to take corrective steps”, he told PTI.