Update: Armenia, Azerbaijan end border conflict after hours of clashes

  YEREVAN/BAKU, Nov 17 (NNN-XINHUA) — Armenia’s Defense Ministry said that fighting ended along the border with Azerbaijan after a Russia-brokered ceasefire agreement.   The ministry said that due to the agreement reached through Russian mediation, hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan stopped along the eastern borderline of Armenia as of…

5 dead in Ukraine’s nursing home fire

  KIEV, Nov 17 (NNN-XINHUA) — Five people were killed in a fire in a private nursing home in Dnipro city of central Ukraine, the National Police said in a statement.   According to the statement, five women aged between 75 and 89 were found dead after the fire broke…

Journalist Fenster back in US after release from Myanmar jail

US journalist Danny Fenster (second from left) is reunited with his family at JFK airport NEW YORK, Nov 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An American journalist jailed for six months by Myanmar’s military rulers arrived back in the United States on Tuesday, one day after he was pardoned and released from prison. “It feels…

Pres Biden bans Nicaragua officials from entering United States

Nicaraguan citizens search for their names on the electoral roll list during the general elections in Nicaragua WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden banned members of the Nicaraguan government from entering the United States as he issued a broad proclamation in response to an election that Washington has…

UN Security Council renews arms embargo on Somalia, authorization to inspect vessels

The United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on the situation in Somalia at the UN headquarters in New York UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — To enforce an arms embargo on Somalia, the United Nations Security Council decided to reauthorize a maritime interdiction of illicit weapons imports and charcoal…

Sudanese army chief says military has no intention to continue in power

KHARTOUM, Nov 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — Chairman of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council and General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan on Tuesday reiterated that the military has no intention to continue in power. Al-Burhan made the remarks when he received the US Assistant Secretary of State for African…

7 Kenyan prison wardens arrested over escape of terror convicts

NAIROBI, Nov 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kenyan authorities have arrested seven prison wardens following the escape of three convicts who were serving jail terms for terrorism-related crimes. Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi said on Tuesday that preliminary investigations revealed that the escape from the heavily guarded prison facility was abetted by…

Covid-19: Cases rise in parts of US amid sustained vaccination push

Tourists spend time on the National Mall in Washington DC NEW YORK, Nov 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — COVID-19 cases are starting to climb again in select regions across the United States after stabilizing at a high level following this summer’s surge of the Delta variant, White House chief medical advisor Anthony…

Covid-19: Greece’s restaurant, cafe owners call for further support amid restrictions

A man walks past a closed restaurant in Athens, Greece, ATHENS, Nov 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — Restaurants and cafes across Greece remained closed while a demonstration was held Tuesday in Athens demanding further state support under the new COVID-19 restrictions introduced by the government this autumn to tackle the latest surge…

62% of African countries are heavily indebted and poor – World Bank

African flags at the headquarters of AfDB in Abidjan, Ivory Coast WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thirty-four African countries are currently on World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) list.Information on the World Bank’s website data.worldbank.org, listed the affected countries as follows: Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia,…