Volkswagen, China’s Gotion High-Tech To Jointly Build Battery Cell Factory In Germany

BERLIN, Jul 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – German car manufacturer, Volkswagen and Chinese company, Gotion High-tech, concluded a strategic cooperation agreement, on the construction of a battery cell factory at Volkswagen Group Components’ site in Salzgitter, southeast Lower Saxony, the German carmaker announced yesterday. Production at the site is planned to start…

Ireland’s New Car Sales In June Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels

DUBLIN, Jul 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – Ireland’s new car sales in Jun surpassed pre-pandemic levels for the first time this year, said the country’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) yesterday. In Jun, 2021, Ireland sold 4,980 new private cars, 1,122 units more than it sold in Jun, 2019, said the CSO in…

12 EU Countries To Get Pre-Financing To Jump-Start Pandemic-Hit Economies

BRUSSELS, Jul 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The Council of the European Union (EU), yesterday approved the first batch of national plans for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic fallout, concluding the process for nearly half of EU countries, to get the initial capital. The first 12 countries to be able to get…

Mudflow Kills Eight In Eastern Uzbekistan

TASHKENT, Jul 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A mudflow, caused by heavy rainfall, has killed eight people and injured six others in Kasansay district of eastern Namangan region, Uzbek Emergency Situations Ministry said, yesterday. Heavy rains in the Jalal-Abad region of neighbouring Kyrgyzstan, caused a sudden mudflow in the downstream Kasansay river,…

Over 160 Unmarked Graves Found Near Former Indigenous Residential School In Canada

OTTAWA, Jul 14 (NNN-XINHUA) – More than 160 unmarked graves have been found, near a former indigenous residential school, in Canada’s British Columbia province, according to a Canadian television network. The Penelakut Tribe found the “undocumented and unmarked” graves around the Kuper Island Industrial School, operated from 1890 until 1975,…

Bangladesh Announces Stimulus Packages To Help Low-Income Groups Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

DHAKA, Jul 14 (NNN-BSS) – The Bangladeshi government announced five packages of 32 billion taka (some 372 million U.S. dollars), to help low-income groups affected by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, made the announcement of the support packages in a statement here yesterday. According to the statement…

Bus Plunges Into Ravine In Bolivia, Killing 24

LA PAZ, Jul 13 (NNN-XINHUA) – At least 24 people died and another 10 were injured, after a public transportation bus plunged into a ravine, more than 100 metres deep in the southern Bolivian department of Chuquisaca, police and medical workers said. The director of the Traffic Operational Unit, Colonel…

Cuban President Accuses U.S. Of Stoking Social Unrest

HAVANA, Jul 13 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Cuban President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, yesterday accused the United States of attempting to stoke social unrest on the island, where violence broke out in several towns on Sunday. The president, who, on Sunday, called on loyalists “to take to the streets to defend the revolution,”…

Up To 41 Killed In Huge Fire At Hospital In Southern Iraq

BAGHDAD, Jul 13 (NNN-NINA) – At least 41 people were killed and many others wounded, in a huge fire that broke out in a hospital treating COVID-19 patients, in Iraq’s southern province of Dhi Qar. The evening massive fire hit the quarantine centre for COVID-19 patients in al-Hussein Hospital, in…

U.S. FDA Adds Warning On Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Related To Rare Neurological Disorder

WASHINGTON, Jul 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), added a new warning on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine yesterday, saying, the vaccine has been linked to a serious but rare side effect called Guillain-Barre syndrome. Guillain Barre syndrome is a neurological disorder, in which the…