US envoy to Haiti resigns, slams Haitian migrant deportations

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US special envoy to Haiti resigned on Thursday two months after his appointment, denouncing the Biden administration’s deportation of Haitian migrants from the US-Mexico border back to their poverty-stricken homeland. “I will not be associated with the United States inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian…

Haitian migrants face crucial choices as expulsion flights ramp up

CIUDAD ACUNA (Mexico), Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A migrant camp in Texas near the Mexican border where as many as 14,000 Haitians amassed in recent days has shrunk to less than half that size amid expulsion flights and detentions, even as some stay, committed to trying to remain in the…

Mexico recovers missing manuscripts from 16th century sold at auction

MEXICO CITY, Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico’s foreign ministry said it had recovered valuable manuscripts from the 16th century, including some relating to conquistador Hernan Cortes, months after a group of academics reported them missing from Mexico’s national archives. In apparently systematic fashion, 10 documents were stolen over several years…

Covid-19: Pres Biden says US donating ‘historic’ extra 500 million vaccines

   WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Joe Biden addressed a Covid-19 summit of world leaders with a promise to donate a “historic” extra 500 million vaccines to countries struggling to overcome the pandemic.    “This is an all-hands-on-deck crisis,” Biden said. “America will become the arsenal for vaccines…

US urges greater ambition as UN Security Council tackles climate

    UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged all countries to raise climate ambitions as the UN Security Council took up the environmental crisis, warning that it is aggravating conflicts.    Blinken pointed to record rains in New York that contributed to dozens of…

UN: Myanmar faces ‘alarming’ risk of escalating civil war

Refugees who fled Myanmar rest in a basic shelter at Farkawn quarantine camp in India’s eastern state of Mizoram near the Myanmar border GENEVA, Sept 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Myanmar is facing the alarming prospect of an escalating civil war as an uprising against the military junta widens, the UN’s human…

Six confirmed dead in plane crash in Russia’s Far East

An Antonov An-26 transport aircraft MOSCOW, Sept 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — All six crew members on board a Russian transport plane died when it crashed outside the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk, local officials said on Thursday. The wreckage was discovered by a search team after it disappeared from radars on…

Covid-19: Africa’s cases near 8.18 mln – Africa CDC

 ADDIS ABABA, Sept 23 (NNN-Xinhua) — The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 8,177,919 as of Wednesday noon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.   The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union, said the death toll from the pandemic…

Covid-19: Canadian police seek man for punching nurse over wife’s vaccination shot

A sign advertising the availability of the Covid-19 is displayed on the front door of a pharmacy in Edmonton, Canada MONTREAL, Sept 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police in the Canadian province of Quebec are searching for a man they suspect of punching a nurse in the face for giving his wife…

French submarine builder to send Australia invoice ‘in a few weeks’

Updated 4 hours ago · Published on 23 Sep 2021 10:50AM · 0 Comments MoreA Naval Group executives and then Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull (centre) look at a mock-up of a submarine before signing the now-scrapped deal between Paris and Canberra PARIS, Sept 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France’s Naval Group said it…