Brazil: news anchor dies in helicopter crash
SAO PAULO, Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ricardo Boechat, one of Brazil’s best-known journalists, has been killed in a helicopter crash…
Two players in hospital after fire strikes another Brazilian club
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A fire broke out at the training centre used by Rio de Janeiro…
Canada: Police free 43 Mexicans from near slavery
MONTREAL, Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Forty-three Mexicans duped in immigration scams have been freed after being forced to work for…
US Pres Trump to make ‘big’ border speech in Texas’s El Paso
EL PASO (Texas,US) — President Donald Trump takes his politically explosive push for walling off the Mexican border to the frontier…
Aircrash: footballer Sala died from head and trunk injuries
LONDON, Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala died of “head and trunk injuries”, an inquest in England heard as…
UN willing to broker end to Venezuela crisis: Sec-Gen Guterres
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres renewed his offer to help broker an end to…
US Muslim lawmaker sorry for tweet that sparked anti-Semitism row
Photo courtesy Ilhan Omar Twitter WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women in…
Desperate Venezuelan migrants turn to Colombia coca plantations
A Venezuelan migrant working as a leaf picker in a Colombian coca plantation. File picture PACELLI (Colombia), Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES)…
Russia’s Gazprombank rejects report on Venezuelan oil giant’s new accounts
MOSCOW, Feb 12 (NNN-TASS) — The report that Venezuela’s state oilcompany PDVSA has opened its new accounts in Russia’s Gazprombank…
US, North Korea to continue summit talks next week
SEOUL (South Korea), Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States and North Korea will hold further talks next week to…