Nepal Struggles To Intensify Vaccination Amid Omicron Threat, Logistics Problems

KATHMANDU, Dec 27 (NNN-XINHUA) – As the threat of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 looms large, Nepal still has a long way to go, to vaccinate its targeted population. Even though the country has been receiving a steady supply of vaccines in recent months, it is now struggling to store…

Tourist Bus Bound For Brazil’s Brasilia Crashes, Killing Five

BRASILIA, Dec 27 (NNN-CMA) – A tourist bus, leaving the Sao Paulo State for Brasilia, crashed Friday, killing five and injuring 50, according to the fire department of the Goias State in east-central Brazil. The accident occurred in Aparecida de Goiania, about 220 km south-west of Brasilia, at about 2:18…

Venezuela Surpasses One Million Barrels Of Crude Produced Per Day

CARACAS, Dec 27 (NNN-ABN) – State-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), exceeded one million barrels of crude produced per day, at the end of 2021, double what it recorded a year ago, Venezuelan Oil Minister, Tareck El Aissami, reported. This figure was reached despite the dozens of sanctions the…

Explosive War Leftovers Kill 241 Civilians In Syria In 2021

DAMASCUS, Dec 27 (NNN-SANA) – As many as 241 civilians have been killed in 2021, by landmines and other explosive materials, left in previous war zones across Syria, a war monitor said yesterday. The number includes 114 children and 19 women, as a result of the explosions, most of which…

Israeli PM Enters Quarantine After Daughter Tests Positive For COVID-19

JERUSALEM, Dec 27 (NNN-PNA) – Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, entered quarantine yesterday, after his daughter tested positive for COVID-19, a spokesman for the prime minister’s office said, in a statement. Bennett’s wife and other children tested negative, the statement added. Israel’s Ynet news reported that, Bennett left a special…

Roundup: South Africa’s Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu Dies: Tutu’s Foundation

CAPE TOWN, Dec 27 (NNN-BUANEWS) – South Africa’s Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace laureate, passed away yesterday morning in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa, at the age of 90, his Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation announced. Tutu, born in 1931, became an outspoken prophet…

Vietnam Reports 15,218 New COVID-19 Cases, 1,651,673 In Total

HANOI, Dec 27 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam reported 15,218 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, including 15,182 locally transmitted and 36 imported, according to its Ministry of Health. Among the localities, the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, continued to log the highest number of infections yesterday with 1,910 cases, followed by southern Tay Ninh province,…

COVID-19 Cases Increase To 529,613 In Myanmar

YANGON, Dec 27 (NNN-MNA) – The number of COVID-19 cases has increased to 529,613 in Myanmar, after 110 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to a release from the Ministry of Health yesterday. With three new deaths, the death toll rose to 19,254 yesterday, the…

At Least Eight Dead In Suicide Bomb Attack In NE DR Congo On Christmas

BENI, Dec 27 (NNN-IRIN) – At least eight people died, in a suicide bomb explosion late Saturday, in the middle of Christmas celebration, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), said hospital sources, yesterday. In a provisional assessment provided on Saturday night, by General Ekenge Sylvain, spokesman for…

41 People Killed In Burkina Faso Attack

OUAGADOUGOU, Dec 27 (NNN-IRIN) – Forty-one people had been killed, in an ambush carried out on Thursday, by armed terrorist groups against a column of civilian fighters from the homeland defence volunteers (VDP), in Burkina Faso’s northern Lorum province, government spokesman, Alkassoum Maiga, announced in a statement. According to the…