UN chief repeats call for calm on Lebanon-Israel border

    UNITED NATIONS, Aug 9 (NNN-XINHUA) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres repeated his call for calm on the Lebanon-Israel border.     “The secretary-general expresses his deep concern about the recent escalation between Lebanon and Israel across the Blue Line, including rocket fire into Israel and return airstrikes and artillery fire…

Fighting between farmers, herders kills 22 in Chad: official

   N’DJAMENA, Aug 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Fighting between farmers and herders has left 22 dead in central Chad, authorities said.   “The conflict was sparked by a land dispute between the two communities, with one side wanting to move in and the other wanting to stop them,” Amina Kodjiana, governor of…

Venezuelan president says dialogue with opposition “going well”

CARACAS, Aug 9 (NNN-Xinhua) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that the dialogue with the opposition, led by former deputy and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido, is “going well.” Maduro said that in the coming days, the date and place of the negotiation with the opposition will be announced and…

US: 1 killed, 1 injured after shooting following verbal altercation outside Target store

Evidence markers surround a car sitting in the parking lot of the Target store in Easton, Pennsylvania EASTON (Pennsylvania, US), Aug 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A verbal altercation escalated into a deadly shooting outside a Target store in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, on Sunday afternoon, the county’s district attorney said. The shooting…

Covid-19: Tunisia starts national vaccination

A military medical staff member administers the COVID-19 vaccine to a recipient at a vaccination center in Tunis TUNIS, Aug 9 (NNN-Xinhua) — Tunisia kicked off national vaccination against COVID-19 as 335 centers across 24 provinces started to vaccinate citizens aged 40 and above. This initiative was organized by the…

Covid-19: US teachers’ union shifts stance to back vaccine mandate as cases surges

WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — COVID-19 vaccinations should be required for US teachers to protect students who are too young to be inoculated, the head of the nation’s second-largest teachers’ union said, shifting course to back mandated shots as more children fall ill. “The circumstances have changed,” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation…

Mexico’s Lopez Obrador to talk COVID-19 vaccines with Kamala Harris

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris MEXICO CITY, Aug 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will discuss COVID-19 vaccines with US Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, amid recent caseload spikes in both nations driven by highly contagious new variants of the…

Covid-19: France seeks volunteers to help Caribbean territories

Residents queue for a Covid-19 test at a laboratory in Fort-de-France, in the French Caribbean island of Martinique PARIS, Aug 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France’s health minister appealed for volunteer doctors and nurses to travel to the overseas territories of Guadalupe and Martinique as a wave of COVID-19 infections overwhelms hospitals…

Mozambican, Rwandan forces retake port town from insurgents

Rwanda sent in 1,000 soldiers last month to shore up Mozambican military forces who have been struggling to regain control over the northern Cabo Delgado province MAPUTO, Aug 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mozambican and Rwandan security forces have recaptured the port town of Mocimboa da Praia, an insurgents’ stronghold, the two…

‘Abandoned’ Greek villagers reluctantly flee raging fires

The fires remained out of control over large swathes of Evia island ATHENS, Aug 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A police car siren calls for the last residents of the village of Gouves on the Greek island of Evia to evacuate as fire rages down a mountainside and engulfs the first houses.…