Off the wire
• Police helicopter crash kills four in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro  • 10-man Malaga hold Barca to surprise draw  • Wushu championships attract young, old athletes to Tallinn  • English Premier League results  • English Premier League standings  • French Ligue 1 results  • Tevez said to be mulling China move  • Leading goal scorers of French Ligue 1  • French Ligue 1 standings  • Traumatic stress found to affect brains of boys, girls differently  
You are here: 　 Home

Xinhua world news summary at 0130 GMT, Nov. 20

Xinhua, November 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

Hungarian National Food Chain Safety Bureau has ordered the culling of all poultry, infected or not, within a one kilometer radius of avian influenza outbreak sites located in southern Hungary, local wire service MTI reported on Saturday.

The measure targeted the sites near the towns of Bugac and Kiskunmajsa in Bacs-Kiskun county and involved tens of thousands of animals. Farmers will be compensated for their losses.(Hungary-Bird Flu)

- - - -

MOSUL, Iraq -- Iraqi security forces on Saturday recaptured a town and two villages in south of the city of Mosul, while special forces fought heavy clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants as they pushed deeper into the eastern part of the city, a security source said.

The army's 9th armored Division continued their advance toward Mosul and managed to free the town of Khedhr al-Yas, which is the center of Nimrud area in south of Mosul, and nearby two villages of Qara-Shor and Kahriza, said a statement from the Joint Operations Command (JOC).(Iraq-IS)

- - - -

UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday called for peaceful local elections in Mali and encouraged the Malian government to "pursue a constructive dialogue with all stakeholders to defuse tensions that may arise before and after the poll."

The secretary-general, in a statement issued here by his spokesman, made the appeals one day before the the Malian government is scheduled to organize local elections on Sunday. (UN-Ban Ki-moon)

- - - -

ACCRA -- The Ghana Health Service (GHS) said on Saturday that it has received notification and alert of dengue fever outbreak in neighboring Burkina Faso from the Work Health Organization Country Office.

In a statement signed by Dr. Kofi Asemanyi-Mensah, the Deputy Western Regional Director of Public Health, the GHS is asking health facilities to keep alert and enhance surveillance and update their respective preparedness and response plans for dengue and other viruses. (Ghana-Dengue Fever-Alert) Endi