Five new countries join polarized UN Security Council

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Five new countries — India, Mexico, Norway, Ireland and Kenya — formally joined the UN Security Council on Monday at a time of growing polarization in the body charged with keeping world peace and security. They took part in a first meeting aimed at…

Mexican president offers WikiLeaks founder political asylum

Assange pictured leaving court in January a year ago MEXICO CITY, Jan 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after a British judge ruled that Assange could not be extradited to the United States “due to concerns about his mental…

U.S. Special Envoy Visits Pakistan Ahead Of Afghan Negotiations

ISLAMABAD, Jan 5 (NNN-APP) – U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, met with Pakistan’s Army Chief, Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa yesterday and discussed the Afghan peace process, the military said. The meeting came, ahead of the resumption of intra-Afghan negotiations in Qatar, that will focus on reduction of…

Update: Pastor dead, 2 hurt in shooting at Texas church

WINONA (Texas, US), Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A pastor was killed and two other people were injured in a shooting at an East Texas church on Sunday after the pastor confronted a man who had hidden from police in the church overnight, a local sheriff said. Authorities had been using…

Covid-19: Venezuela to implement seven-day hard lockdown to slow coronavirus

The seven days will be followed by a week of more flexible measures CARACAS, Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela implement a week of hard lockdown starting Monday to slow down the spread of the new coronavirus, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said.The seven days will be followed by a week of…

Brazil wildfires surge again in 2020, a decade-high

BRASILIA, Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of wildfires in Brazil increased 12.7 percent last year to a decade-high, according to official figures likely to add to pressure on President Jair Bolsonaro’s government over the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. There were a total of 222,798 wildfires across Brazil in…

Covid-19: US officials reject Pres Trump claims on ‘exaggerated’ toll, defend vaccine rollout

WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US officials rejected outgoing Pres Donald Trump’s claim that the national Covid-19 death toll of more than 350,000 has been exaggerated, but defended the stumbling campaign to vaccinate millions of Americans. Some 4.2 million people in the US have received initial doses of the two-dose…

US shooting: Pastor dead, others wounded in Texas church – governor

DALLAS (Texas, US), Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A shooting Sunday morning in a church in northeastern Texas left one person dead and others wounded, officials said. Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed in a statement that a suspect had been apprehended after the shooting in the Starrville Methodist Church in the…

Covid-19: Canada surges from 500,000 to 600,000 cases in two weeks

MONTREAL, Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada surpassed the grim milestone of 600,000 coronavirus cases Sunday, two weeks after passing half a million, underscoring the pandemic’s persistence in the country during the end-of-year holiday period. On Sunday afternoon, Canada recorded 601,314 Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic and 15,860…

US: Outgoing Pres Trump request to ‘find’ votes for him to overturn Biden win sparks political uproar

WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The release by US media of a stunning audio tape in which President Donald Trump pressured Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” enough votes to overturn his election defeat there to Democrat Joe Biden sent shockwaves across Washington. The tape, a rebel push by scores…
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