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banXIAMEN, China, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — Two Chinese runners died on Saturday after they collapsed at Xiamen International Half-Marathon in southeast China’s Fujian province, according to the local organizing committee. A runner, with the surname Lin, fell down and suffered sudden heart failure with 4.5 kilometers to go before the finish. The other runner, surnamed […]
Read MoreWARSAW, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — The physical fitness of Polish children and youngsters has worsened in every aspect in recent years, Polish Press Agency reported on Friday. The report quoted a recent research made by National Center of Physical Condition Examination as reporting that a continuous worsening of fitness examination results can be observed since […]
Read MoreANKARA, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Turkish court dismissed Friday the Mavi Marmara raid case, a thorny issue that strained Turkish-Israeli relations, acquitting all of the Israeli suspects accused of killing 10 Turkish activists on international waters, Turkish Daily Sabah reported. Last week, the prosecutor in the case asked the court to drop the charges against […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked a Goldman Sachs executive to head the White House National Economic Council, local media reported Friday. Gary Cohn, Goldman’s president and chief operating officer, has been offered the director of the key economic council to coordinate domestic and international economic issues across the Trump’s […]
Read MoreLAGOS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — A total of 56 people lost their lives and 177 others were injured in Friday’s twin blasts that hit a crowded market in northeast Nigeria, a local official said Saturday. Yusuf Muhammed, chairman of the local government of Madagali, a district in the northeastern Nigerian state of Adamawa, told reporters […]
Read MoreSEOUL, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — Different sides in South Korea have called for efforts to end the political chaos and minimize the vacuum of state affairs, after the National Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly passed a motion to impeach scandal-scarred President Park Geun-hye. “For the past months, the state affairs have been virtually paralyzed. Since the […]
Read MoreBEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved two loans totaling 301 million U.S. dollars for transport sector projects in Oman, the bank’s first in the Arabian Peninsula. The financing comprises 265 million dollars to maritime infrastructure at Duqm Port and 36 million dollars to the country’s first railway system, […]
Read MoreUNITED NATIONS, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — UN Secretary-General Designate Antonio Guterres will take his oath of office on Dec. 12 at a special meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), UNGA President’s spokesperson Dan Thomas told reporters here on Friday. The meeting will pay tribute to outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and to administer the […]
Read MoreDAMASCUS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — The international intervention in Syria was until last year under the hood, with what analysts called a proxy war. The proxy war is still ongoing, but in 2016 the super powers have become more personally involved in Syria’s nearly six-year-old conflict. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT OF TURKEY Since the beginning of the […]
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