APEC needs to prioritise climate change, environment preservation

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 (NNN-NNN) — Climate change and preservation of the environment should be among the priorities of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) from now on, said APEC CEO Dialogues Malaysia 2020 chair Datuk Ruben Emir Gnanalingam. In making the call at the opening of the two-day virtual dialogues, he…

U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Top 250,000 — Johns Hopkins University

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) – U.S. COVID-19 deaths surpassed 250,000 yesterday, according to the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. With the national caseload topping 11.4 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 250,029, as of 5:25 p.m. local time (2225…

Palestinians Demonstrate Against Pompeo’s Upcoming Visit To Israeli Settlement

RAMALLAH, Nov 19 (NNN-WAFA) – Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated yesterday, against the upcoming visit of U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. During the demonstration, in the West Bank city of al-Bireh near Ramallah, participants waved Palestinian flags and held banners in English…

Russia defends Azerbaijan-Armenia deal over Karabakh conflict after France criticism

Nagorno-Karabakh’s main town, Stepanakert, would have been captured by Azerbaijani forces had a peace deal not been signed, Armenia’s Prime Minister  MOSCOW, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian President Vladimir Putin defended a ceasefire deal he brokered between Azerbaijan and Armenia after France called for him to fix “ambiguities” in the text.…

Brazil is emerging as the world’s leading offshore oil producer

BRASILIA, Nov 18 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Sharply weaker oil prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, and heightened geopolitical uncertainty have done little to blunt Brazil’s epic offshore oil boom. By September 2020 Brazil had soared to be the third-largest supplier of crude oil to China, the world’s second-largest economy. The scale of Brazil’s…

Colombia requests more time to complete removal of landmines in accordance with the Ottawa Treaty

BOGOTA, Nov 18 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Colombia has requested a more than four-year extension under the Ottawa Treaty for removing landmines from across the country, the High Peace Commissioner’s office said. If the request is granted, Colombia will have until the end of 2025 to remove anti-personnel landmines from its territory.…

Update: Iota, weakened but deadly, rips through Central America

TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Storm Iota has killed at least nine people as it smashed homes, uprooted trees and swamped roads during its destructive advance across Central America, just two weeks after Hurricane Eta devastated parts of the region. Iota, which made landfall in Nicaragua as a “catastrophic” Category…

Covid-19: Hard-hit Brazil threatened by second wave of virus

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — After struggling for months to get its spiraling Covid-19 death toll under control, Brazil is now threatened by the nightmare scenario that has already shaken the United States and Europe: a second wave. Brazil has been one of the countries hit hardest by…

US election: Pres Trump fires top election security official who rejected fraud claims

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Pres Donald Trump fired thegovernment’s top election security official, who had rejected the president’sunsubstantiated claims of “massive” fraud in the vote he lost to Joe Biden. Trump announced on Twitter the termination “effective immediately” of Chris Krebs, who leads the agency that jointly declared “the…

US hero of Bosnia war named to the Pentagon

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A US former fighter pilot whose plane was shot down over Bosnia in 1995 and who survived six days without being captured was appointed to a senior Department of Defense position, the Pentagon said. Scott O’Grady, 55, was named to be an Assistant Secretary of…
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