Greece: Baby boy dies in migrant shipwreck off Lesbos

ATHENS, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A two-month-old baby was recovered dead in the early hours of Friday from a migrant wreckage off Lesbos, a coroner said on Saturday. The baby boy was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, coroner Theodoros Nousias said. The wreckage occurred when the…

Republic of Congo begins campaign against malaria

BRAZZAVILLE, Dec 18 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — Health authorities of the Republic of Congo have started a domestic campaign to fight off malaria by distributing as many as 1.3 million mosquito nets, according to local press media.     The mosquito net distribution will be extended through Dec 27, as praised by Jean-Claude…

South Africa calls for the Palestinian people´s justice

PRETORIA, Dec 18 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — South African International Relation and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor on Saturday demanded justice for the Palestinian people, while condemning the Israeli crimes in the occupied territories.     Speaking to Palestine TV, Pandor supported the 2022´s call to abrogate the African Union’s (AU) observer status granted…

Brazil: President-elect Lula’s new government will have 37 ministries

BRASILIA, Dec 18 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The governor of the state of Bahia (northeast) and future chief minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa, affirmed today that the new government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil will have 37 ministries.     Currently, the Executive of the defeated ultra-right-leaning president…

Leo Varadkar elected as new PM of Ireland

DUBLIN, Dec 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Leo Varadkar, former Irish Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Fine Gael party, has been elected as the new prime minister of Ireland following a vote in the lower house of the Irish parliament on Saturday. A total of 87 members of the house…

Quadrilateral agreement inked on Black Sea electric cable

BUCHAREST, Dec 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Romania, Hungary, Azerbaijan and Georgia signed on Saturday an agreement on the Black Sea submarine cable for the transport of electricity from the Caspian area to Romania. “Azerbaijan needs outlets for the huge resources it has. Today we are starting to build a new ‘bridge’…

Peru crisis: President Dina Boluarte refuses to quit as demonstrators seethe

LIMA, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Peru’s embattled President Dina Boluarte said she would not step down in the face of violent protests over her predecessor’s ouster as she called on lawmakers to bring forward elections as a way to quell unrest. The country’s Congress rejected a bid Friday to hold…

US shooting: 2 students killed, 2 wounded in shooting near Chicago school

CHICAGO, Dec 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two students were killed and two other teens were wounded in a shooting Friday afternoon near a high school on Chicago’s West Side, authorities said. Chicago fire officials said the four 16-year-olds were shot near Benito Juarez High School. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown, speaking…

Peru crisis: Curfew decreed in 15 provinces as unrest mounts

LIMA, Dec 17 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Peru’s President Dina Boluarte decreed a curfew in 15 provinces and the Armed Forces have taken over the country’s security following mounting violence since the impeachment of Pedro Castillo Terrones on Dec. 7. The state of emergency already in force nationwide did little to prevent…

Some 259 Venezuelans return home from Peru

CARACAS, Dec 17 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — A new group of 259 people returned to Venezuela from Peru as part of the Return to the Homeland Plan, the People’s Foreign Affairs Ministry reported.     The deputy minister for Latin America and the Caribbean, Rander Peña, welcomed the Venezuelans who arrived at the…