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An explosion that set off a fire at a shopping center in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, on Monday left six people dead and more than 60 others injured, officials said. Besides the dead and injured, the Armenian ministry of emergency situations said that around 19 people are still missing following the blast at the Surmalu wholesale market on Sunday. Overnight, search and rescue operations were carried out in the rubble and 10 survivors and one body were pulled from the rubble, according to the statement. In the aftermath of the explosion, a building collapsed and a fire broke out. Local…

The Japanese weather agency predicted a typhoon would make landfall close to Tokyo on Saturday, potential landslides, flooding in low-lying areas, overflowing rivers, strong winds and high waves over the weekend of the Bon summer holidays. In the 24 hours through Saturday evening, Typhoon Meari is forecast to bring 300 millimeters of rain to the central Tokai region, 200 millimeters in the east Japan Kanto-Koshin region and 100 millimeters in the northeastern Tohoku region, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Ten flights have been canceled by All Nippon Airways Co., and the Tokaido Shinkansen and other train services may be affected.…

The UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said that enormous needs still exist and the future looks bleak despite the unprecedented scale-up of assistance in Afghanistan over the past year. In Afghanistan, UN agencies and their partners continued to provide assistance to nearly 23 million people, or nearly 94 percent of all people in need. A humanitarian operation expanded into all 34 provinces last winter, and their efforts saved lives and averted a famine. The UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov, stressed that unless a functioning economy and banking system are restored, this tragic reality will continue. It is now…

The Indian government under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to reducing its aggregate greenhouse gas emissions by one billion tonnes by 2030, according to Indian Science and Technology Minister Dr Jitendra Singh. Inaugurating the three-day International Conference on Systems Analysis for Enabling Integrated Policy Making in New Delhi, Dr Singh said this. The minister said that India also aims to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels by half of the total consumption of fossil fuels by 2030. As a result of its unique geo-climate conditions, India has historically been vulnerable to natural disasters due to…

Ayman Safadi, Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister, and Canadian International Development Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan discussed ways of expanding joint economic cooperation and taking advantage of Jordanian skills on the Canadian labor market. During their talks in Amman, Safadi and Sajjan stressed effective coordination channels in the development fields and a desire to develop strong friendly relations between the two nations. In relation to refugee-related burdens, Safadi praised Canada’s efforts to help the Kingdom in its development process and to address economic challenges. Safadi thanked Canada for its support of UNRWA, emphasizing that the agency…

In preparation for the bilateral drill maneuvers that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is hosting at the drill operations zone in Yanbu and Al-Kharj governorates, the Saudi and US marine corps forces arrived in Yanbu to participate in the Native Fury 22 drill maneuvers being held there. It includes several hypotheses and trainings between the Saudi and US forces, which are scheduled to begin this week and run for several days. The exercise aims at enhancing partnership between the Saudi forces and their US counterparts in carrying out bilateral plans.

According to the UN weather agency, many parts of the world had just experienced the third hottest July on record amid extreme heat, drought, and wildfires. Because of an intense heatwave around mid-July, temperatures across much of Europe were close to 0.4°C above the 1991-2020 average, with southwestern and western Europe being the most above-average regions. It is despite the La Nina event, which is supposed to cool the planet,” explained World Meteorological Organization (WMO) spokesperson Clare Nullis. It was one of the warmest Julys on record in some places, but not globally, she added, noting that it was “slightly…

It was early on Wednesday morning that authorities were working on a rescue procedure for a beluga whale whose life had been put in danger. This whale had strayed into the River Seine. Sea Shepherd France and a Reuters photographer witnessed the six-hour extraction of the 800 kilogram (1,760 pound) cetacean. Before local authorities confined the all-white beluga in a large lock system, it had swum nearly halfway to Paris. A refrigerated lorry is now transporting it to Ouistreham, in Normandy, where it will be placed in a salt water lock. While the first stage of the rescue operation was…

According to the Jordan Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, foreign aid (in grants and soft loans) totaled $1.5 billion from January to July of this year. Foreign assistance includes $187.5 million as grants and $1.1 million as soft loans to support the general budget and finance high priority projects in the fields of social protection, employment, economic development and infrastructure, as well as $252.5 million additional grants for the Jordan Response Plan in response to the Syrian crisis. In coordination with all ministries and government institutions, the ministry is also allocating foreign aid for top priority development programs and…

A record amount of rain fell in Seoul and surrounding areas on Tuesday, causing the nation’s capital to flood. This resulted in flooding homes, vehicles, buildings and subway stations, according to official reports by Yonhap News Agency. Eight people have died in the flooding, and seven others are reported missing. It has been raining heavily over 100 millimetres per hour throughout parts of Seoul, the western port city of Incheon, and Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds Seoul, in the past few hours. In Seoul’s Dongjak district, precipitation per hour exceeded 141.5 millimeters, which was the highest amount of precipitation per hour…