Trade wars lose US its competitiveness top spot: WEF

GENEVA, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States fell to second placebehind Singapore in the World Economic Forum’s flagship GlobalCompetitiveness Report, with the slippage linked in part to President Donald Trump’s trade wars. The WEF, organisers of the glitzy annual gathering of business andpolitical elite in Davos, have released an…

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to convene symposium on colonialism and reparations

GEORGETOWN, Oct 9 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), through its Reparations Commission (CRC), will convene Thursday a symposium on ‘Western Banking, Colonialism and Reparations’ in Antigua and Barbuda. The one-day event will explore the historical roots of Western banks in financing and profiteering from the enslavement of Africans…

Cubans denounce US blockade damages to communications system

HAVANA, Oct 9 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Cuban communications workers denounced the damages to the development of the sector caused by the US blockade, which in the last year were valued at over 55 million dollars. At a hearing convened by the National Assembly of People’s Power (Parliament) Services Committee, those…

Venezuela denounces Colombia’s attempts to undermine peace

CARACAS, Oct 9 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The Colombian government continues its escalation of attempts to undermine peace in Venezuela, with threats to use paramilitary groups to generate violence in the Bolivarian nation, President Nicolas Maduro denounced. The president informed the decision to continue with the second phase of the orange…

Russia rejects idea of US role in Ukraine conflict talks

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov MOSCOW, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia rejected the idea of involving the United States in talks to help resolve the conflict between the Kiev government and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s east. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there was no support for the idea of Washington joining…

Europeans urge strict sanctions enforcement on North Korea

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — European members of the UN Security Council called for the strict enforcement of international sanctions against North Korea, after a closed-door meeting prompted by Pyongyang’s latest missile test. “International sanctions must remain in place and be fully and strictly enforced,” they said in a…

Mystery oil spills blot more than 130 Brazilian beaches

Oil spilled on Pontal de Coruripe beach in Alagoas, Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The source of large blots of oil staining more than 130 beaches in northeastern Brazil remained a mystery despite President Jair Bolsonaro’s assertions they came from outside the country and were possibly the…

Kuwait, U.S. sign deal on aviation security cooperation

KUWAIT, Oct 9 (NNN-KUNA) – Kuwait and the United States, on Tuesday, signed a deal to bolster cooperation on aviation security. The deal was inked by Kuwait Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), and the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA). After signing the agreement, DGCA’s President, Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al-Sabah,…

US detained nearly one million migrants in 12 months

Migrant teens line up for a class at a “tender-age” facility for babies, children and teens, in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US border agents arrested or stopped nearly one million undocumented migrants at the southern border with Mexico in the last 12 months, the most…

Egypt, Greece, Cyprus Condemn Turkish Military Operation In Syria

CAIRO, Oct 9 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt, Greece and Cyprus slammed the military operation announced by Turkey, to be launched soon in Syrian territories. The remarks came in a final communique, after a tripartite summit in Cairo attended by Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President,…
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