Covid-19: China to donate 150,000 Sinovac vaccine doses to El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said that China will donate 150,000 Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Central American nation, on top of the 2 million Sinovac jabs his government already purchased. “I received a letter from President Xi Jinping, where he informs me…

US: Florida homes evacuated as wastewater leak risks ‘catastrophic’ flood

MIAMI, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Emergency crews in central Florida were working to prevent an environmental catastrophe at a leaking reservoir that risked sending millions of gallons of contaminated wastewater toward nearby homes and into the Tampa Bay. More than 300 homes near the site of an abandoned phosphate mine…

Funeral held for Salvadoran killed by Mexican police

SAN SALVADOR, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Salvadoran woman who died at the hands of Mexican police was buried in the southwest of El Salvador, in the presence of family and close friends. The coffin of Victoria Salazar was driven in a white car from a funeral home in Sonsonate,…

Brazil seeks US$1 billion in foreign aid to curb Amazon deforestation: Environmental minister

SAO PAULO, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil’s environment minister wants US$1 billion in foreign aid from countries including the United States to help reduce deforestation in the Amazon between 30 per cent and 40 per cent. “The plan is US$1 billion over 12 months,” the minister, Ricardo Salles, told the newspaper…

Venezuela to ask UN for help in clearing land mines near Colombian border

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro CARACAS, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela will ask the United Nations to help remove landmines in its territory that it says have been deployed by “irregular” armed groups near the Colombian border, President Nicolas Maduro said. Maduro’s government on Thursday said two soldiers were killed by…

US shuts once-secret Guantanamo prison unit, moves prisoners

U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, also known as “Gitmo” WASHINGTON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A once-secret unit within the Guantanamo Bay detention centre that had fallen into disrepair has been closed and the prisoners moved to another facility on the American base in Cuba, the US military said. The prisoners at…

Covid-19: Colombian president announces new restrictive measures to slow spread of pandemic

BOGOTA, April 5 (NNN-Xinhua) — Colombian President Ivan Duque announced new restrictive measures for several Colombian cities where the number of COVID-19 cases are on the rise and the occupancy of intensive care units (ICUs) is over 70 percent. “The national government, headed by the Ministries of Health and the…

S. Korea’s Imported Car Sale Logs Double-Digit Increase In March

SEOUL, Apr 5 (NNN-YONHAP) – South Korea’s imported car sale logged a double-digit increase last month, due to demand for German luxury models, industry data showed today. The number of imported vehicles sold here was 27,297 in March, up 34.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the Korea Automobile…

Two Rockets Hit Air Base In Iraq’s Salahudin Province

BAGHDAD, Apr 5 (NNN-NINA) – Two rockets, yesterday, landed near an Iraqi military air base, in Iraq’s Salahudin province, north of the capital, Baghdad, the Iraqi military said. A statement by the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, said that, the rockets landed at 12:15 p.m. local time…

Iran’s FM Demands “Constructive” Approach From European JCPOA Participants In Vienna Meeting

TEHRAN, Apr 5 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, called on European participants in the 2015 nuclear agreement, to maintain a “constructive” attitude in the meeting, scheduled for Apr 6 (tomorrow), in Vienna. Zarif made the demand on Saturday, in a telephone conversation with his British counterpart, Dominic…
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