Covid-19: US recommends pausing J&J vaccinations on clotting concern

The recommended pause may further complicate efforts to vaccinate the world WASHINGTON, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US health officials recommended a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine on concerns about rare and severe blood clotting side effects.A type of brain blood clot called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis was…

Covid-19: France suspends all Brazil flights over variant fears

France is suspending all flights to and from Brazil PARIS, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France is suspending all flights to and from Brazil to curb the spread of a new Covid-19 variant found in the South American country, Prime Minister Jean Castex said.Experts say the Brazilian variant, known as P1,…

US Defence Secretary Austin in Germany to help settle defence ties

US Defence Secretary, Lloyd Austin BERLIN, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin is meeting his counterpart Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in Berlin, with the aim of settling defence ties after a tumultuous four years under the previous US administration.Former US president Donald Trump repeatedly criticized Germany for not spending…

UN: All of St Vincent without clean water after volcanic eruption

According to reports, around 20,000 evacuees from the large island nation still need shelter KINGSTOWN, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The entire population of the Caribbean island of St Vincent has been left without clean water and electricity after last week’s eruption of the La Soufriere volcano, a UN spokesperson said.In…

Iran Plans To Start 60-Percent Uranium Enrichment: Media

TEHRAN, Apr 14 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency of its plan to enrich uranium at 60-percent purity, following the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility, Iranian news network, Press TV reported yesterday, citing Deputy Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi. Iran will soon replace the centrifuges damaged in…

Mexico detains 30 Marines accused of disappearances

MEXICO CITY, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Prosecutors in Mexico have arrested 30 Marines in connection with the disappearances of an unspecified number of people in the northern state of Tamaulipas in 2014, the Navy said. “Thirty naval service members were made available to the Attorney General’s Office on April 9…

France activates crisis centre after clergy kidnapped in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France has activated its foreign ministry crisis centre after seven Catholic clergy, five of them Haitian and two French, were abducted in the restive island nation of Haiti, the ministry said after the kidnappers demanded a million dollar ransom. The Quai d’Orsay’s “crisis and support centre ……

Radical leftist inches into lead as Peru counts presidential votes

An election worker checks the temperature of a Quechua indigenous person arriving to vote at a polling station in the remote rural village of Capachica, in Puno, Peru LIMA, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A far-left union leader and teacher has taken a surprise, though slim, lead in Peru’s presidential election,…

Brazil judge halts parts of Pres Bolsonaro’s decrees to relax gun laws

The four decrees increase the number of firearms Brazilians can own from four to six BRASILIA, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A judge on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court on Monday suspended parts of four decrees issued by President Jair Bolsonaro relaxing the country’s gun control laws. Bolsonaro issued the decrees on…

At least 22 dead as bus overturns in Peru

LIMA, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Twenty-two people died and 13 others were injured Monday when a passenger bus overturned in rainy conditions on an Andean road in Peru, police said. The accident happened in the morning near the western city of Huarez, some 600 kilometers north of Lima, a police…
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