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 into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington. Nobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries. A video…

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 period since being signed by President Alberto Fernandez. Now, women will be able to voluntarily interrupt their pregnancies up until the 14th week of gestation without legal penalty. In addition,…

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 department of Anzoategui. Maduro informed that the sabotage was carried out by unknown individuals in a gas pipeline section of the Anaco-Jose Industrial Complex. The terrorist attack caused a massive fire controlled…

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 were killed and three others were injured. Unidentified armed men opened fire against a group of people aged between 17 and 18 years old in the Buga municipality.  Condemning the…

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 million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by…

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 citizens who have been in Britain, Brazil, Ireland and much of Europe, a White House official said, as the new administration ramps up its pandemic response. Biden will also on…

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 work in waters off Denmark, the company said. The pipe-laying vessel “Fortuna”, owned by the Russian company KVT-RUS, had earlier been located, by marine tracing apps, some 28 kilometres south…

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 country’s Houthi rebels from a terror blacklist, saying it could put millions of lives at risk. The Trump administration’s move against the insurgents had come into effect the day before…

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 pandemic began, Johns Hopkins University said, just days after President Joe Biden’s inauguration. The milestone was reached only five days after the US, the world’s wealthiest and hardest-hit nation, recorded…

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 killed Sunday when the plane in which they were traveling crashed in the state of Tocantins. The Palmas club, which plays in the Brazilian Championship Serie D, reported in a…
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