Irish parliament returns with weeks of government talks ahead
DUBLIN, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ireland’s Fianna Fail will start formal talks next week to try to form a government…
Colombia’s public school teachers start two-day strike
BOGOTA, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Public school teachers in Colombia launched a two-day strike on Thursday to protest violence against…
Portuguese MPs debate euthanasia decriminalisation
LISBON, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Portuguese lawmakers began considering decriminalising euthanasia, a move narrowly rejected two years ago but with…
More coronavirus cases in Iran’s Qom as religious gatherings seen at risk
TEHRAN, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Iranian health officials urged all religious gatherings to be suspended in Qom, after two more…
WHO says no time for complacency as China’s COVID-19 cases fall
GENEVA, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is…
London Central Mosque stabbing: Man is arrested
LONDON, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a stabbing inside a…
Missile attacks fuel UN’s fear for migrants fleeing Libya
TRIPOLI, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has called on the European Union to better…
Two dead as Sydney to Melbourne passenger train derails
The train was transporting 160 passengers when it crashed SYDNEY, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two people were killed when a…
Lesotho: PM Thomas Thabane to be charged with murdering his wife
Thomas Thabane (centre) at his inauguration in 2017 with Maesaiah Thabane MASERU, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas…
Over 3 million people in Niger need urgent aid, says UNICEF
NIAMEY, Feb 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) –Nearly three million people, more than half of them children, in Niger are in need of…