G7 calls for Belarus to end migrant crisis immediately

  LONDON, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) – G7 foreign ministers urged Belarus Thursday to end a migrant crisis on its border with Poland, accusing it of callously engineering the stand-off and putting lives at risk.   “We call on the regime to cease immediately its aggressive and exploitative campaign,” Britain, Canada,…

Colombia nun freed after 4-year captivity in Mali returns home

Colombian nun Gloria Cecilia Narvaez arrives at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota BOGOTA, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Colombian nun who was kidnapped and held by armed groups in Mali for more than four years has returned home.Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez, 59, was greeted by a dozen fellow nuns,…

Canada death toll set to rise as floods ravage Pacific coast

A view of flooding in the Sumas Prairie area of Abbotsford British Columbia, Canada ABBOTSFORD (Canada), Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada is sending the military to help evacuate and support communities hit by “catastrophic” flooding with the death toll expected to rise after record rainfall on the Pacific coast triggered…

Covid-19: German hospitals sound alarm in pandemic surge

  FREISING (Germany), Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — With intensive care beds filling up and health staff running short, a hospital in Bavaria’s Freising made an unprecedented decision to transfer a coronavirus patient to northern Italy for treatment. Through the highs and lows spanning 18 months of the pandemic, Germany had…

US, Gulf countries accuse Iran of causing ‘nuclear crisis’

  WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States and its Arab allies in the Gulf accused Iran of causing a nuclear crisis and destabilizing the Middle East with ballistic missiles and drones.   The warning came in a joint statement issued after a meeting of the US and Gulf…

Twenty-five civilians killed in Niger’s lawless west

  NIAMEY, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Suspected jihadists killed 25 civilians in Niger in a lawless desert region near the border with Mali, local officials said.   Niger, the world’s poorest country by the benchmark of the UN’s Human Development Index, faces jihadist insurgencies both on its western flank abutting…

US: Two men found guilty of Malcolm X murder to be exonerated after admission by authorities of a historic miscarriage of justice

  NEW YORK, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two men found guilty of the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X are to have their convictions thrown out, one of them posthumously, in an admission by US authorities of ahistoric miscarriage of justice.   Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance will…

The West wants to turn Ethiopia into the next Libya, Iraq – PM Abiy’s party

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed  ADDIS ABABA, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Prosperity Party, PP, has accused the West of wanting to turn the country into another Iraq or Libya.The Horn of Africa nation is facing a politico-security crisis that has seen rebels threaten to attack the…

Covid-19: UK records another 38,263 new coronavirus cases

A woman walks past a sign of a coronavirus testing centre in London, England LONDON, Nov 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Britain has registered 38,263 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 9,675,058, according to official figures. The country also reported a further 201 coronavirus-related…

Covid-19: South Africa likely to see lower deaths in fourth wave, says epidemiologist

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — South Africa is likely to experience a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic but the numbers of hospital admissions and deaths will probably not be as high as those in previous waves, a senior epidemiologist said. “The numbers of infections and detected cases may be…