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…

Pres Trump administration in rush to sell oil rights in Alaska nature refuge

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The administration of US President Donald Trump is rushing to sell rights to companies to drill for oil and gas in Alaska’s nature reserve before he leaves office.The Interior Department posted a “call for nominations,” to be published on Tuesday, allowing oil and gas firms…

Barbados removes Nelson statue in break with colonial past

British Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson BRIDGETOWN, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Barbados removed the statue of British Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson from the capital Bridgetown’s main square, two months after announcing plans to replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as its head of state and move on from its colonial past.The bronze statue…
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