Tunisia’s president says necessary to amend constitution

   TUNIS, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tunisian President Kais Saied has announced plans to amend the constitution and form a new government months after he dismissed the prime minister and suspended parliament in moves hiscritics called a coup.   Speaking to two TV stations after an evening stroll through the…

Seeking to change deadbeat image, Zimbabwe pays debt

  HARARE, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — After 20 years of not paying its debts, Zimbabwe is taking steps to clean up its balance sheet and its image by making payments to major creditors.   Even if admittedly token amounts, the government hopes they will build goodwill towards Zimbabwe.   Finance…

Libya, Malta sign agreement on medical cooperation

TRIPOLI, Sept 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Libyan Ministry of Health said that Minister Ali Zanati and his Maltese counterpart, Chris Fearne, have signed an agreement on medical cooperation between the two countries. The agreement includes training medical and paramedical personnel and treating Libyan patients in Maltese hospitals, the Ministry said…

Elections in Libya crucial in maintaining stability – UN envoy

UN Special Envoy for Libya Jan Kubis  UNITED NATIONS, Sept 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — The top UN envoy for Libya said that the elections scheduled for Dec 24 are crucial in maintaining stability in the war-torn country. “I would like to stress that holding the elections in Libya — even in…

Chile kickstarts construction of largest e-Fuel project in LatAm

SANTIAGO, Sept 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — Chile commenced in its southern region of Magallanes the construction of the largest project in Latin America to produce synthetic gasoline from green hydrogen. With an investment of 51 million U.S. dollars, the Highly Innovative Fuels (HIF) consortium’s Haru Oni project will use wind power…

5 soldiers killed, 6 wounded in ELN attack in Colombia

BOGOTA, Sept 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least five soldiers were killed and six were wounded on Saturday in an attack by guerrillas from the National Liberation Army (ELN) in a rural area of the Colombian municipality of Arauquita in the department of Arauca. According to authorities, the wounded men were…

Tunisian Islamist party rejects attempts to suspend constitution

TUNIS, Sept 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — Tunisia’s Islamist party Ennahdha (Renaissance) expressed its categorical refusal to suspend the constitution and change the country’s political system, according to a statement posted on its official Facebook page on Saturday. Ennahdha, the first majority party in the Tunisian parliament, said in the statement that…

Former head of Peru’s Maoist rebels dies in prison: lawyer

  LIMA, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Abimael Guzman, the historic leader of Peru’s Maoist Shining Path guerrillas — blamed for one of the bloodiest insurgencies in Latin America — died Saturday in a military prison at the age of 86.   Guzman had been serving a life sentence in the…

France rescues 126 migrants attempting English Channel boat crossing to the UK

Forty migrants were earlier rescued in another operation PARIS, Sept 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French maritime officials rescued 126 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel to Britain as tensions escalated over record arrivals on England’s southern coast.At least 14,100 people have now crossed the Channel to the UK on small…

Zimbabwe magistrate rules Mugabe should be reburied at the national shrine

Robert Mugabe, Former President of Zimbabwe HARARE, Sept 12 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — A Zimbabwean court upheld a traditional court’s ruling that the body of former President Robert Mugabe should be exhumed and reburied at a national shrine in the capital.The Chinhoyi Magistrates Court rejected an appeal by Mugabe’s children that the…