Iraqi PM To Visit Saudi Arabia On Bilateral Ties, Regional Tensions

BAGHDAD, Sept 25 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, will visit Saudi Arabia today (Wednesday), to discuss with Saudi leaders bilateral relations and regional tensions, Abdul Mahdi’s media office said. Abdul Mahdi’s visit will last several hours, during which he will meet with Saudi King, Salman bin Abdulaziz…

Another 16,800 Thomas Cook customers to be flown back by CAA in UK’s largest peacetime repatriation

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 24 (NNN-BERNAMA) — Another 74 flights were scheduled Tuesday to bring back to UK 16,800  more Thomas Cook customers after the UK’s oldest tour company ceased trading a day earlier, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The CAA in a statement said this is an addition to…

Criminal charges against Brazil’s mining giant Vale and German safety firm: Federal Police proposes

BRASILIA, Sept 24 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazilian federal police have proposed criminal charges against mining giant Vale and German safety firm Tüv Süd and 13 of their employees over January’s deadly dam collapse, reports say. Police reportedly say both firms used falsified documents that said the Feijão dam was stable. At…

Britain promises 30 million pounds for medicine, clean water in Venezuela

Newly appointed Britain’s Secretary of State for International Development Alok Sharma NEW YORK, Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Britain will provide up to 30 million pounds ($37.30 million) of funding to help aid organisations in Venezuela provide medicine and clean water, the government said. The OPEC nation’s once-prosperous economy has collapsed…

Venezuela FM reiterates commitment to peace at UN

CARACAS, Sept 24 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has reaffirmed his country’s willingness to contribute to peace and stability in the world. In his Twitter account, the foreign minister also said that multilateralism is the only way to guarantee peace. Arreaza indicated that the Venezuelan delegation will…

Cuba: Raul Castro, Diaz-Canel welcome Bolivian president

HAVANA, Sept 24 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raúl Castro, and President Miguel Díaz-Canel welcomed in Havana Bolivian President Evo Morales who made a stopover enroute to New York. According to the Twitter account of the Cuban Presidency, Morales…

Cuba suffers million-dollar transport damages due to US blockade: Latest report

HAVANA, Sept 24 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The damage caused by the US blockade against Cuba in the transport sector exceeded 170 million dollars from April 2018 to March 2019. According to the most recent report on the impact of the US blockade on Cuba, the figure represents an increase of…

Caribbean on alert facing Tropical Storm Karen

SAINT JOHN’S, Sept 24 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The government of Antigua and Barbuda issued a tropical storm warning for the US and British Virgin Islands, in the face of Tropical Storm Karen’s Atlantic development. According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in its latest report, Karen, the 11th tropical storm…

16 Latin American countries and US activate regional defence treaty against Venezuela

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Countries in the Americas voted to activate a regional defense treaty against Venezuela, responding to a request by the United States, which is seeking to topple president Nicolas Maduro. The United States earlier this month invoked the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, known by…

Mexico apologizes to victim of 1970s ‘Dirty War’

MEXICO CITY, Sept 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico made an official, public apology to a former member of a Marxist guerrilla group who was tortured by the army during the country’s so-called “Dirty War” in the 1970s. Martha Alicia Camacho and her late husband, Jose Manuel Alapizco, were detained by the…
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