Sudan crisis: Thousands flee ‘bodies on the streets’ in battle-scarred Khartoum

KHARTOUM, April  20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thousands of residents fled Sudan’s capital, where witnesses said bodies lay in the street from fighting between the army and paramilitaries after a 24-hour truce failed to take hold. Five days of fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere in the northeast African country have killed at…

‘Hotter and hotter’: Swathes of Asia sweat in heatwave

BANGKOK, April  20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sweltering under a blistering sun, people across South and Southeast Asia have been taking cover beneath any shelter they can find as they pray for cooling rains with record temperatureshitting the region. Bangladesh saw its highest temperature for almost 60 years in the past week,…

Kenya: Six students feared dead in yet another grisly accident; third in a week

NAIROBI, April 18 (NNN-KBC) — Several students are feared dead following a grisly accident involving a Public Service Vehicle (PSV) and a lorry near Delamare farm along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway.   An eyewitness said he had counted bodies of six students who were travelling to Nairobi. Schools across the country…

No dollar, no problem: Kenya now buying fuel in local currency – President Ruto

President William Ruto NAIROBI, April 19 (NNN-GNA) — Kenyan president William Ruto has announced that the dollar exchange rate in the East African nation will plummet soon citing a number of economic interventions.Key among them is that his country was currently buying their fuel needs in the local Kenyan Shillings…

UN says 34 million Afghans in poverty under Taliban rule

KABUL, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of Afghans in poverty nearly doubled to 34 million as the nation was racked by the collapse of the US-backed government and the Taliban takeover, the United Nations said. Vast foreign subsidies were halted and aid programmes dramatically cut back after the US-backed…

Canada’s largest federal public service union announces nationwide general strike

OTTAWA, April 19 (NNN-XINHUA) — Canada’s largest federal public service union announced Tuesday night that more than 155,000 workers will go on strike, setting the stage for one of the largest strikes in Canada’s history. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) said in a news release that the strike…

Russia cosmonauts conduct 1st 2023 spacewalk at International Space Station

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, seen to the right, work outside the International Space Station Tuesday night during their six-hour-and-40-minute spacewalk VLADIVOSTOK, April 19 (NNN-XINHUA) — Two Russian cosmonauts conducted their first spacewalk this year on Wednesday after a hiatus caused by the depressurization of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft.…

US accuses 4 Black nationalists of acting for Russian intelligence

 WASHINGTON, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Justice Department on Tuesday charged the founder and three members of a half-century-old Black nationalist group with working with Russian intelligence to influence elections in the United States. Omali Yeshitela, the founder of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) and the Uhuru Movement,…

India population to surpass China mid-year: UN estimates

NEW DELHI, April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — India is set to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by mid-year with almost three million more people, UN estimates showed on Wednesday. India’s population will be 1.4286 billion compared to China’s 1.4257 billion at mid-year, the United Nations Population Fund’s State…

Interpol says 14,000 arrested in Latin America gun raids

 LYON (France), April 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Over 14,000 people have been arrested and 8,000 weapons seized in an anti-firearms operation across Central and South America, Interpol said. As well as weapons, the raids swept up over 200 tonnes of cocaine and other drugs worth $5.7 billion, as well as 370…