Bolivia: Parliament’s committee seeks to prosecute Jeanine Añez

LA PAZ, Oct 28 (NNN-TELESUR) — A special committee of the Bolivian Parliament recommended starting trials against the leader of the coup-born regime Jeanine Añez and some ministers for the massacres of Sacaba and Senkata that took place in 2019. The final report of this committee was referred to the National…

Union leader demands justice for dead miners in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Oct 28 (NNN-TELESUR) — Mexico’s National Union of Miners leader Napoleon Gomez called for those responsible for the tragic death of 65 miners in 2006 to be held accountable. He stated that it was necessary to reopen the investigations of the complaints that were filed for industrial homicide and…

Argentina calls for “solidarity multilateralism” at UN meeting

Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Sola BUENOS AIRES, Oct 28 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Argentine Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Sola called on Latin American and Caribbean countries to embrace “solidarity multilateralism” to overcome the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Amid the unprecedented crisis the region is going through, our agenda of proposals…

Covid-19: Cases hit all-time high weekly number of over 2.8 m – WHO

GENEVA, Oct 28 (NNN-TASS) — The number of coronavirus cases worldwide increased by more than 2.8 million in the past week, the biggest number for a seven-day period ever recorded, the World Health Organization said. As of Oct 25, the global organization was been informed about more than 42 million…

Airlines will not be able to slash costs sufficiently to nuetralise cash burn – IATA

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 (NNN-BERNAMA) — The airline industry will not be able to slash costs sufficiently to neutralise severe cash burn and avoid bankruptcies and preserve jobs in 2021, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). In its new analysis, IATA reiterated its call for government relief measures to sustain airlines financially and avoid massive…

US unrest: Second night of clashes in Philadelphia after police kill Black man

PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania, US), Oct 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of people demonstrated in Philadelphia late Tuesday, with looting and violence breaking out in a second night of unrest after the latest police shooting of a Black man in the US. The police department warned on Twitter that “a large crowd” of…

US urges diplomacy as Nagorno-Karabakh fighting rages

HICRAN QULIYEVA stands in front of her house in Ganja, Azerbaijan, after it was hit by a rocket YEREVAN/BAKU, Oct 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to pursue a diplomatic solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict as fighting in and around the mountain enclave…

Fiji, Cuba ink visa exemption agreement

SUVA, Oct 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Fiji and Cuba signed here a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on visa exemption which will enable the two countries’ nationals with the valid diplomatic and official passports to enter, remain, transit through and exit without a visa for a period of 90 days. According to a…

Covid-19: Nearly 800,000 children in US test positive

Children walk past school buses in the Borough Park neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (NNN-XINHUA) – Nearly 800,000 children in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to a new report of the American Academy of…

Covid-19: Pandemic slashes international tourism by 70 pct – UN

MADRID, Oct 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — International tourists arrivals plunged by an annualised 70 percent during the first eight months of 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Tourism Organization (WTO) said. The Northern Hemisphere’s peak summer season was ravaged by travel restrictions, with tourist arrivals down by 81 percent…
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