Qatari Special Envoy Holds Talks With Pakistani Officials On Afghan Peace Process

ISLAMABAD, Feb 23 (NNN-APP) – Mutlaq bin Majed Al-Qahtani, special envoy of Qatar’s foreign minister for counter-terrorism and mediation of conflict resolution, held talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, and Chief of Army Staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, focusing on the Afghan peace process. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said,…

Covid-19: Brazil to start producing vaccine in first half of 2021

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 23 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil will begin to produce a COVID-19 vaccine in the first half of 2021, a state-run biological sciences institution said. With a technology transfer agreement with British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation based in Rio de Janeiro will be able to start…

US reaffirms willingness to engage Iran over nuclear issue

State Dept. Spokesman Ned Price WASHINGTON, Feb 23 (NNN-Xinhua) — The US Department of State reaffirmed the willingness to engage with Tehran over the nuclear issue, downplaying new threats by the Iranian leadership to boost uranium enrichment. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a daily press briefing that the…

Egypt, U.S. Discuss Military, Security, Anti-Terror Cooperation

CAIRO, Feb 23 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, and visiting Commander of U.S. Central Command, Kenneth McKenzie, discussed yesterday, ways to strengthen cooperation in the military, security and anti-terrorism fields. During a meeting in Cairo, Sisi and McKenzie also discussed joint military training programmes and the exchange of experience,…

Myanmar: Huge anti-coup rallies after junta threat of death

YANGON, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of thousands of anti-coupprotesters rallied across Myanmar again Monday after a clear threat from the junta that it was prepared to use lethal force to crush what it branded as“anarchy”. The warning came after three demonstrators were shot dead over the weekend, and the…

Boeing 747 cargo plane drops engine parts in Netherlands, two injured

Debris after pieces of metal fell from a Boeing 747 cargo plane on Sunday AMSTERDAM, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two people were injured after pieces of a cargo plane broke off and fell onto a town in the Netherlands, according to authorities there. Pieces of metal fell on the town…

Covid-19: Argentina president blasts ‘unforgivable’ vaccine line-jump scandal

Argentina President Alberto Fernandez (right) swears in Carla Vizzotti as the new health minister a day after the vaccines scandal broke BUENOS AIRES, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Argentina’s president Alberto Fernandez blasted his former health minister over an “unforgivable” COVID-19 vaccine scandal. Gines Gonzalez Garcia resigned late on Friday after it…

Japan requests airlines avoid Boeing 777 with certain engines as US aviation authority issues new directive

TOKYO, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Japan has requested that airlines avoid using Boeing 777 planes with Pratt & Whitney 4000 engines for take-offs, landings and overflights in its territory until further notice, the Japan Aeronautical Information Service Center said. The notice to airmen, issued on Sunday evening, came after a United…

EU set to agree sanctions over Russia, Myanmar crackdowns, and also Venezuela, China

BRUSSELS, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — EU foreign ministers are expected on Monday to approve sanctions against those behind RUSSIA’s crackdown on Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his supporters, as well as those responsible for the coup in Myanmar. The top diplomats from the 27-nation bloc meet in Brussels for talks that will…

US snow storms: Anger over huge power bills in ‘preventable’ Texas weather crisis; 70 died

HOUSTON, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Millions of Texans were still withoutsafe water as officials fielded angry complaints over shockinglylarge power bills spawned by a cold weather crisis that Houston’s mayor said was ultimately preventable. The frigid air mass that paralyzed parts of the southern and central UnitedStates early in the…
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