Americas

Iraqi PM Says Only Hundreds Of U.S. Troops To Remain In Iraq

BAGHDAD, Jan 6 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi said, only hundreds of U.S. troops would remain in Iraq,…

UN Expert Welcomes British Court’s Refusal To Extradite Assange

GENEVA, Jan 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, welcomed a British court’s refusal to extradite…

Brazil Sees Over 1,000 COVID-19 Deaths In 24 Hours

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 6 (NNN-CMA) – Brazil saw 1,171 more deaths from COVID-19, in 24 hours, raising the total…

Saudi FM Hails “New Chapter” In Gulf As Crisis With Qatar Ends

RIYADH, Jan 6 (NNN-SPA) – Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, yesterday, hailed end of the Gulf crisis…

Palestine Holds “Intensive Contacts” For Convening Int’l Peace Conference: Official

RAMALLAH, Jan 6 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestine is holding intensive contacts, on convening an international conference for peace, a senior official…

Covid-19: Cases of new variant detected in LatAm

MEXICO CITY, Jan 5 (NNN-Xinhua) — Cases of a new and more infectious coronavirus variant that was first identified in…

Covid-19: Most US vaccines go idle as New York, Florida move to penalise hospitals

Nurse Sandra Lindsay receives the second dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New York…

Bolivia: Tuni glacier is disappearing and so is the water it supplies

LA PAZ, Jan 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Bolivia’s Tuni glacier is disappearing faster than initially anticipated, according to scientists in the…

US judge blocks Pres Trump sanctions targeting human rights lawyers, war crimes tribunal

NEW YORK, Jan 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A US judge blocked the Trump administration from sanctioning human rights lawyers for supporting the…

Five new countries join polarized UN Security Council

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Five new countries — India, Mexico, Norway, Ireland and Kenya — formally joined the…