Covid-19: US government to suspend free test orders next week

WASHINGTON, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Starting next week, Americans will no longer be able to order free at-home COVID-19 tests from a website set up by the US government due to limited supply arising from a lack of congressional funding. The COVIDTests.gov website, set up during the Omicron variant record…

‘Man of the Hole’: Last of his tribe dies in Brazil

The man’s face was briefly captured on camera by anthropologist Vincent Carelli BRASILIA, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The last of his people, a Brazilian indigenous man known only as “the man of the hole” has been found dead, decades after the rest of his uncontacted tribe were killed off by…

US shooting: Boy, 12, held in shooting of student at California campus

OAKLAND (California, US), Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 12-year-old boy was held on Monday on suspicion of shooting and wounding a student at a school in east Oakland, authorities said. Reports of a shooting sent officers to Madison Park Academy in the Sobrante Park neighbourhood at about 1.30pm, police said.…

EU faces ‘awful’ winters without gas cap – Minister

Facade lighting of the Frauenkirche, Church of Our Lady, is switched off to save energy in Dresden, Germany  BRUSSELS, August 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Belgium’s energy minister has warned that EU countries will face “five to ten” “terrible” winters if nothing is done to reduce natural gas prices. Calls are mounting…

US shooting: Detroit police arrest suspect in Sunday morning random shootings killing 3

  DETROIT (Michigan, US), Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The man suspected of shooting four people, killing three, in a series of Sunday morning incidents that left the city and westside on edge was in custody, Detroit police said Sunday night.  Police said the man was arrested in the shooting of four people…

Two journalists shot and killed in Colombia: police

BOGOTA, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Assailants on a motorcycle shot and killed two journalists Sunday in Colombia as they returned from covering a carnival, police said. Leiner Montero, the director of an online radio station, and Dilia Contreras, the director of an online news website, were killed near the municipality of Fundacion…

More than a dozen people dead in DR Congo violence

GOMA (DR Congo), Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has left more than a dozen people dead in three days, military and local sources said. Over 120 militias roam the country’s volatile east, and there are frequent attacks on civilians. Two soldiers were among those killed since Friday.…

Libya: Rival leaders trade blame after Tripoli clashes kill 32

  TRIPOLI, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Libya’s rival premiers traded accusations over deadly clashes in Tripoli — the worst in the capital since a landmark 2020 ceasefire and which sparked fears of a major new conflict. The health ministry said 32 people were killed and 159 wounded during the  fighting between rival…

Fire extinguished on ferry off Sweden with 300 aboard

STOCKHOLM, Aug 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A fire that broke out on a car ferry carrying 300 people off Sweden’s coast on Monday has been extinguished and the ship will be towed to port, Swedish maritime authorities said. The blaze appeared to have started on a refrigeration lorry on the car…

Japan pledges US$30bil in African aid at Tunis summit

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks via video link at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Tunis, Tunisia TUNIS, Aug 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Japan pledged US$30 billion in aid for development in Africa Saturday, saying it wants to work more closely with the continent, with the rules-based…