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Employees of the Turkmenistan State Customs Service held a meeting at the international port of Turkmenbashi with specialists from the transport industry to learn about innovations in customs legislation

With temperatures approaching 50°C recently and the possibility of hotter days in the future, the Ministry of Health and Prevention has announced the launch of an initiative to prevent heat exhaustion, heat stroke and other heat-related illnesses

The BYD Uzbekistan Factory joint venture in Jizzakh province has produced its first electric vehicle, in a $160 million project to produce 50.000 electric vehicles per year

The UN Security Council extended the mandate requiring UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to report monthly on attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea

Transgender people demonstrated in the city of Bannu against the reported torture, assault and shaving of their leader, allegedly perpetrated by gangsters

A new UN report has revealed the extent of the forced starvation crisis imposed by Israel in the ongoing war; thousands of children are affected and at least four have died of starvation this week alone

The Haemodialysis Centre of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute will save thousands of indigent Filipinos who suffer from kidney problems and have to undergo dialysis, said the Speaker of the House of Representatives after inauguration ceremony

The Qatar Red Crescent Society announced that its doctors in the Gaza Strip have performed 18.927 medical interventions since the first week of the Israeli aggression, including over 3.000 life-saving surgeries

Mawelah's largest central fruit and vegetable market, one of the Sultanate's landmarks, will cease operations on Friday and be relocated entirely to Khazaen Economic City

Responding to a question on the human resources policies the government is undertaking to fill the gaps created by civil servant attrition, Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay replied that there are now sufficient numbers of civil servants

Iraqi authorities recorded around 5.500 fire incidents across the country in the first five months of 2024, a 44% decrease from the 10.019 fires reported in the same period in 2023