Americas

US incident: Police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching street racing, one injured

TACOMA (Washington, US), Jan 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed…

Argentina’s voluntary abortion law enters into force

BUENOS AIRES, Jan 25 (NNN-EPE) — Argentina’s newly expanded abortion law enters into force on Sunday, after the 10-day preparatory…

Venezuela decries another terrorist attack to its oil industry

CARACAS, Jan 25 (NNN-TELESUR) — Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro denounced a terrorist attack aimed at disrupting gas supplies in the northern…

Massacres climb to 6 in Colombia so far this year

BOGOTA, Jan 25 (NNN-TELESUR) — Colombia’s National Police Director Jorge Vargas confirmed another massacre in the Cauca department where four young people…

Climate change: 480,000 killed by extreme weather this century

A flooded area of Buzi, central Mozambique, after the passage of cyclone Idai. PARIS, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Almost half a…

Covid-19: Pres Biden to reinstate travel bans on most non-US citizens – White House official

WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden will announce he is re-imposing a Covid-19 travel ban on most non-US…

Russian Nord Stream 2 pipe-laying ship begins work off Denmark

COPENHAGEN, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Russian ship tasked with completing the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has begun…

Aid groups urge US Pres Biden to remove Yemen’s rebel Houthis from ‘terror’ list

SANA’A, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Twenty-two aid groups working in Yemen urged US President Joe Biden to remove the war-torn…

Covid-19: US passes 25 million Covid-19 cases – Johns Hopkins

WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 25 million Covid-19 cases have been recorded in the United States since the…

Plane carrying Brazilian soccer players crashes, killing six

RASILIA, Jan 25 (NNN-Xinhua) — Six people, including four soccer players and the president of the Brazilian club Palmas, were…