2 dead, 10 missing as Cuban migrant vessel sinks off Florida

MIAMI, May 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Coast Guard was searching for 10 people missing off Florida after a migrant vessel with 20 Cubans capsized. Authorities reported they had recovered two bodies near the Florida Keys and pulled eight people alive from the ocean. The Coast Guard said on Twitter…

Covid-19: US says it is considering vaccine passport

WASHINGTON, May 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States said it is seriously considering creating a vaccine passport for Americans traveling abroad. “We’re taking a very close look at that,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said of the idea of special documentation for vaccinated Americans who want to travel overseas, as…

Remains of 215 children found at closed Canada indigenous boarding school

OTTAWA, May 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The remains of 215 children have been discovered on the grounds of a former boarding school set up more than a century ago to assimilate Canada’s indigenous peoples, according to a local tribe. A specialist used ground-penetrating radar to confirm the remains of the students…

Covid-19: Origins search ‘being poisoned by politics’ says WHO

GENEVA, May 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization warned that efforts to uncover the Covid-19 pandemic’s origins were being hampered by politics, insisting scientists needed space to work on solving the mystery. “We would ask that we separate the science from the politics, and let us get on with…

US Senate Republicans block legislation on Jan 6 Capitol riot commission

WASHINGTON, May 29 (NNN-Xinhua) — US Senate Republicans blocked legislation to establish an independent commission to investigate the deadly Jan 6 Capitol riot. Senators voted 54-35 on the House-passed bill, falling short of 60 votes needed to get it over an initial hurdle. Six Republican senators joined Democrats voting to…

Syria’s Assad Says Winning Presidential Election “Slap In Faces Of Enemies”

DAMASCUS, May 29 (NNN-SANA) – After scoring a sweeping victory in the presidential election, incumbent Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad said, yesterday that, the vote was “a slap in the faces of enemies.” Assad made the remarks in a televised speech, after his election victory, where he said, the vote constituted…

UN commemorates its fallen peacekeepers

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres UNITED NATIONS, May 28 (NNN-Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday laid a wreath to honor more than 4,000 UN peacekeepers who lost their lives since 1948, and presided over a virtual ceremony at which the Dag Hammarskjold Medal was awarded posthumously to 129…

Open skies treaty: US tells Russia it will not rejoin key arms control deal

The treaty permits unarmed surveillance flights over more than 30 participating countries  WASHINGTON, May 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US has told Russia it will not rejoin an arms control deal that permits unarmed aerial flights over dozens of participating countries. The state department said the Open Skies Treaty “has been…

UN aviation body to launch investigation into Belarus plane diversion

MONTREAL, May 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN civil aviation agency will launch an investigation into the May 23 diversion by Belarus of a European flight and arrest of a dissident on board, it announced on Thursday. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council “decided to undertake a fact-finding investigation of…

Canada: PM Trudeau apologizes to Italian-Canadians for WWII treatment

OTTAWA, May 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada on Thursday formally apologized for interning more than 600 Italian-Canadians during World War II. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, addressing the House of Commons, also apologized for harm suffered by members of the community, with about 31,000 declared “enemy aliens.” “To the tens of thousands…
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