Maduro will not attend UN General Assembly but will deliver 12m signatures denouncing US sanctions

CARACAS, Sept 14 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he will not travel to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly later this month, but that two of his envoys would attend to denounce U.S. sanctions on the OPEC nation. Maduro said Executive Vice…

Taliban delegation visits Russia after Trump says talks ‘dead’

MOSCOW, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Taliban representatives have held discussions with Russian officials in Moscow, just days after US President Donald Trump declared months-long peace talks between Washington and the group “dead”. Taliban’s Qatar-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen confirmed the meeting in the Russian capital on Friday, saying the group’s delegation…

Belarus to donate medicines to Venezuela

MINSK, Sept 14 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Belarus will donate medical supplies worth over $200,000 to Venezuela, in the face of the US blockade that hinders the purchase of medicines and starting materials to manufacture them in Caracas. On the list of medicines, there are 35 products worth Br442,013 (over $214,000…

Venezuela: Pres Maduro announces direct flights between Caracas and Moscow

CARACAS, Sept 14 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced the opening of a direct Caracas-Moscow flight, as part of friendship and cooperation agreements entrenched today between the South American nation and Russia. During a public address, Maduro highlighted recently agreed alliances in different areas for bilateral collaboration, in…

Twitter restores some blocked Cuban official accounts

HAVANA, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Twitter has restored some of the accounts of Cuban state-run media, journalists and government officials it had blocked on Wednesday, although others like that of Communist Party leader Raul Castro remain suspended. Cuban officials have accused Twitter, a social media firm based in the United…

Mexico slams US Supreme Court order on asylum restrictions

Immigrants from Central America and Mexican citizens queue to cross into the US to apply for asylum MEXICO CITY, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said that Mexico’s government doesn’t agree with an “astonishing” US Supreme Court order that would block migrants from countries other than Mexico…

Update: At least 11 dead in Rio hospital blaze

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 11 people, many of them elderly, were killed when a fire swept through a hospital in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro as staff and desperate visitors battled to rescue patients from smoke-filled wards. Hospital authorities said the blaze late…

Venezuela ‘ready’ to defend itself after US invokes defence pact: foreign minister

GENEVA, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela is “ready” to defend itself, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Friday, after Washington invoked a regional defence pact that might justify such a move. “We are ready to protect ourselves, we are ready to react,” Arreaza told a news conference after meeting in Geneva…

U.S. imposes sanctions on North Korean hacking groups blamed for global attacks

WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The U.S. Treasury on Friday announced sanctions on three North Korean hacking groups it said were involved in the “WannaCry” ransomware attacks and hacking of international banks and customer accounts. It named the groups as Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and Andariel and said they were controlled…

Hurricane Dorian forces Bahamas to find new schools for 10,000 displaced students

Marsh Harbour, Abaco Island, Bahamas: 10-year-old Torres talks to UNICEF’s Regional Emergency Specialist Hanoch NASSAU, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Bahamaian education officials are scrambling to find classroom space for up to 10,000 students displaced by Hurricane Dorian after the Category 5 storm ravaged two of the archipelago’s northern islands, destroying…
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