Mexican journalist shot dead, the fourth in 2020

CHILPANCINGO (Mexico), Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Mexican journalist and his police bodyguard were murdered in a hail of gunfire in the southern state of Guerrero early on Sunday, police and human rights officials said. Pablo Morrugares is the fourth journalist murdered in Mexico in 2020. Morrugares ran the PM…

US: Storm grazes Florida and takes aim at the Carolinas

MIAMI, Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Floridians along the state’s Atlantic coast hunkered down on Sunday as Tropical Storm Isaias plowed northward just offshore, whipping the state with high winds, rain and the threat of flash floods as it went. At 11 p.m. Eastern time, the center of the storm was…

Covid-19: Peru sees 428,850 cases, 19,614 deaths

Workers move a coffin with the body of a COVID-19 victim out of a refrigerated container before its cremation at the El Angel crematorium, in Lima LIMA, Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Peru on Sunday passed 13,000 coronavirus deaths, the health ministry said, a day before the country is scheduled to…

Covid-19: Colombia’s cases reach 317,651, death toll hits 10,650 as armed gangs imposes stricter lockdowns

BOGOTA, Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Colombia’s Ministry of Health on Sunday reported a total of 317,651 cases of COVID-19, with 139,037 cases considered active. The death toll rose to 10,650 after 320 more patients died from the disease in the previous day. As many as 11,470 new cases were detected in the same 24-hour period,…

Firefighters struggle to contain blaze in southern California

LOS ANGELES, Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 1,300 firefighters were battling a blaze that was burning out of control Sunday in southern California, threatening thousands of people and homes east of Los Angeles. The so-called Apple Fire that broke out Friday near the city of San Bernardino has so…

Opposition candidate Ali sworn in as Guyana’s president

GEORGETOWN, Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) –– Guyana’s opposition candidate was sworn in as president on Sunday, hours after being declared winner of the disputed March 2 general election in the oil-rich, cash-poor South American nation. Irfaan Ali, 40, of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) was named the top vote-getter by Guyana…

Covid-19 cases worldwide pass 18 million: official tally

PARIS, Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide has passed 18 million, according to tally from official sources at 2240 GMT Sunday. At least 18,011,763 cases have now been registered as the pandemic’s rate of infection continues to accelerate. A million more cases have been detected…

Syrian Gov’t Slams Oil Deal Between Kurdish Militia, U.S. Firm

DAMASCUS, Aug 3 (NNN-SANA) – The Syrian Foreign Ministry, yesterday, condemned a deal signed recently, between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and a U.S. oil company, to modernise the oil industry, in areas controlled by the U.S.-backed SDF, in northeastern Syria. “This agreement is considered an integrated and aggravated…

Covid-19: Recovered from virus, Pres Bolsonaro says nothing to fear as ‘everyone will catch it”

BRASILIA, Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Fresh off a bout of COVID-19, President Jair Bolsonaro said nearly everyone will probably end up catching the new coronavirus, urging Brazilians to “face up to it” and saying there was nothing to fear. His latest bid to downplay the pandemic came as Brazil closed…

Update: US adds 47,508 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours – Johns Hopkins

WASHINGTON, Aug 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US notched 47,508 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours on Sunday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. There were also 515 new deaths, the Baltimore-based university real-time count at 0030 GMT Monday. Sunday’s toll was a slight dip, as the previous five…
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