Road accident kills 5 in southern Zambia

LUSAKA, Oct 26 (NNN-XINHUA) — Five people were killed and one injured in a road accident on Wednesday in southern Zambia’s Chirundu District, according to the police. The accident, which involved a truck and a car, occurred when the driver of the car failed to keep to his near side…

4 dead, dozens injured in head-on bus crash in Peru

ru Reports LIMA, Oct 26 (NNN-XINHUA) — At least four people were killed and dozens injured after two passenger buses collided head-on in early morning Wednesday in the southern Peruvian department of Cusco, authorities said. The accident occurred around 1:30 a.m. local time at kilometer 60 of the Espinar-Cusco roadway…

Sudanese army, paramilitary forces resume peace talks in Saudi Arabia

KHARTOUM, Oct 26 (NNN-XINHUA) — The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced that their delegations had arrived in Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah to resume a new round of negotiations. “Based on the SAF’s belief that negotiation is one of the means that…

President of Mexico receives immunization with Cuban vaccine Abdala

HAVANA, Oct 26 (NNN-ACN) — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, President of Mexico, boosted his immunization against COVID-19 with a dose of the Cuban vaccine Abdala.During Tuesday’s morning press conference at the National Palace, the president received the vaccine on the occasion of the start of the immunization campaign that began…

Russian cosmonauts finish over 7.5-hour spacewalk

MOSCOW, Oct 26 (NNN-TASS) — Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolay Chub have closed the exit hatch of the Poisk module of the International Space Station (ISS) and finished first spacewalk of Expedition 70, according to the broadcast on the Russian space corporation’s website. The cosmonauts embarked on the spacewalk…

Bird flu detected in Antarctic for the first time, British Antarctica Survey says

The first cases of bird flu have been confirmed in skua populations LONDON, Oct 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The first cases of bird flu have been detected in seabirds in the Antarctic, according to the British Antarctic Survey, raising fears the disease will spread rapidly through dense colonies of birds and…

Zimbabwe struggles to contain spread of cholera outbreak

The outbreak has killed more than 100 people and infected 5,000 since February HARARE, Oct 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Zimbabwe has been struggling to contain the spread of cholera outbreak, with the government announcing measures amid fears of a repeat of its 2008 outbreak that sparked a “national emergency”.Cholera cases span…

Tanzanian Pres Samia pledges stronger trade ties with Zambia

President Samia Suluhu Hassan LUSAKA, Oct 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has pledged to foster deeper economic integration between Tanzania and Zambia.At the celebrations of Zambia’s 59th Independence Anniversary on Tuesday, where she was the guest of honour, Samia Suluhu expressed her commitment to furthering the historic…

Sudanese parties agree to push for end to conflict

Nearly 5.8 million people have been displaced due to the prolonged conflict JUBA (South Sudan), Oct 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sudan’s transitional government led by Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and opposition parties which are signatories to the 2020 Juba Peace Agreement agreed to push for peaceful settlement of the ongoing conflict between…

UN chief regrets ‘misrepresentations’ of his Mideast remarks

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday rejected the “misrepresentations” of his remarks a day earlier on Palestinian grievances that infuriated Israel, which has vowed to retaliate against the world body. “I am shocked by misrepresentations by some of my statement yesterday in the…