Americas

Brazil: Jail terms reinstated over nightclub fire that killed 242 a decade ago

BRASILIA, Sept 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Brazilian supreme court judge ordered the immediate imprisonment of four people convicted for their…

Brazil: Drought reaching unprecedented limits

BRASILIA, Sept 3 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — According to Brazil’s National Center for the Monitoring of Natural Disasters (Cemaden), South America’s largest…

Tanzania, Brazil bilateral trade reach 203bn/

DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 3 (NNN-DAILYNEWS) — THE bilateral trade between Tanzania and Brazil has reached 74.8 million US dollars (203.2bn/-)…

Brazil rescued almost 7,000 people in slave-like conditions

BRASILIA, Sept 3 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Brazilian authorities managed to rescue 6,761 people in conditions analogous to slavery in three…

Haiti: Operation to weed out gangs intensifies

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 3 (NNN-KBC) — The Kenyan-led Multinational Mission to Haiti (MSS) have launched an operation to clear the streets…

Venezuela judge issues arrest warrant for opposition leader after disputed election

CARACAS, Sept 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Venezuelan judge issued an arrest warrant for Edmundo González, the opposition politician widely believed to…

US seizes Venezuelan President Maduro’s plane; Venezuela says it an act of piracy

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US has seized a plane belonging to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, claiming it was…

US gun violence: 4 killed on train in Chicago-area appeared asleep before shootings, police say

CHICAGO, Sept 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four people fatally shot on a commuter train in the Chicago area early Monday appeared…

Brazil: Supreme Court upholds ban of Musk’s X

X was suspended in Brazil during the early hours of Saturday BRASILIA, Sept 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil’s Supreme Court has upheld…

Ecuador: Pres Noboa extends state of emergency and curfews in parts of the country

QUITO, Sept 2 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa extended for another 30 days the state of emergency in six…