French rail firm faces trial over deadly TGV accident

PARIS, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French state rail firm SNCF and three employees involved in a deadly crash during testing of a new high-speed train in 2015 are to stand trial over the accident charged with manslaughter, judicial sources said on Monday. The train crashed near the eastern city of…

Illegal immigration: Lithuania completes Belarus border fence

VILNIUS, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Lithuania on Monday said it had finished building a fence along its border with Belarus to fight illegal immigration which the West accuses Minsk of orchestrating. Illegal immigration has soared in EU member Lithuania this year, with around 4,200 migrants mainly from the Middle East…

Spain fishes bodies of 7 suspected African migrants from sea

MADRID, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Spanish police said Monday they had fished the bodies of seven suspected migrants from the country’s southeastern Mediterranean coast since Sunday night. “The guardia civil pulled out seven lifeless bodies off Alicante and Murcia” after spotting them “floating in the sea on Sunday afternoon August…

Madagascar police kill 14, injure 28 after mob tried to lynch kidnappers accused of abducting albino child

ANTANANARIVO, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police in Madagascar killed at least 14 people on Monday and wounded 28 others as they opened fire on what they called a lynch mob angered at the kidnapping of an albino child. The shooting took place on Monday morning in the southeastern town of…

Sierra Leone: Eight dead in landslide, floods

FREETOWN, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Eight people have been killed and more than 800 displaced by torrential rain and a landslide in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, authorities said Monday, warning of further damage as rainscontinue. The downpours hit the city over the weekend, causing a landslide Sunday in Looking Town…

Burkina Faso says 28 rebels and one soldier died in army ops

OUAGADOUGOU, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A soldier has been killed and at least 28 “terrorists neutralised” in two military operations in the north and east of Burkina Faso, the army said Monday. The landlocked Sahel state is in the grip of a seven-year-old insurgency that has claimed more than 2,000…

African nations call out climate injustice ahead of COP27

LIBREVILLE, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — African countries on Monday called for an end to a “climate injustice” saying the continent causes less than four percent of global CO2 emissions but pays one of the highest prices for globalwarming. Government officials, international organisations, NGOs and the private sector from more than…

Chile summons Brazil ambassador over Pres Bolsonaro claims

SANTIAGO, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Chile on Monday summoned Brazil’s ambassador in Santiago after President Jair Bolsonaro accused his counterpart Gabriel Boric of arson during opposition protests three years ago, Chile’sforeign minister said. A former student leader, Boric took part in anti-government protests in Santiago in 2019 sparked by student…

Angolan president Lourenco wins second term

LUANDA, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Angola’s President Joao Lourenco won a second five-year term on Monday after his MPLA party emerged victorious with a thin majority in last week’s closely fought election, extending its decades-long rule in the oil-rich country. He promised to be the “president of all Angolans” and…

Remains of large dinosaur skeleton unearthed in Portugal

LISBON, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Paleontologists have been working away in a Portuguese backyard to unearth the remains of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe, University of Lisbon researchers said. Fossilized fragments from the dinosaur were first discovered in 2017 by a property owner in the…