Argentina to send humanitarian aid to Cuba after oil fire

BUENOS AIRES, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Argentinean Foreign Ministry announced hat three batches of humanitarian aid will be sent to Cuba to alleviate the severe consequences of an oil fire in the Cuban city of Matanzas. The ministry said in a statement that on Monday, the first load of…

Bodies of mountaineers recovered after accident in Ecuador

QUITO, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — Ecuadorian fire brigades recovered the bodies of three mountaineers who died while trying to reach the top of the Carihuairazo volcano, rescue services said. The climbers fell into a 60-meter crevice on Saturday when they were climbing the 5,020-meter Carihuairazo, an extinct volcano in the…

Portugal wildfires: 119 suspects arrested for arson

LISBON, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — A total of 119 suspects have been arrested for the crime of arson this year as serious fires hit Portugal due to a heat wave and severe drought, causing consequences for agriculture and other primary supply systems. “We have this year a detention rate that…

US Pres Biden calls India an ‘indispensable partner’ on 75th anniversary of independence

WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Joe Biden congratulated India on 75 years of independence and said the United States and India were “indispensable partners” that would continue to work together to address global challenges in the years ahead. India will mark its 75th year of independence on Monday,…

Pres Putin says Russia and North Korea will expand bilateral relations

MOSCOW/PYONGYANG, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian President Vladimir Putin told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un the two countries will “expand the comprehensive and constructive bilateral relations with common efforts”. In a letter to Kim for Korea’s liberation day, Putin said closer ties would be in both countries’ interests, and…

US shooting: Man dies after crashing car, firing gun near Capitol

US Capitol Police Officers work near a police barricade on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 29-year-old Delaware man died in an apparent suicide early on Sunday after crashing his car into a barricade near the US Capitol and firing shots into the air, police…

Five die in Ecuador blast officials blame on crime gangs

QUITO, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Five people died and 16 were injured in an explosion on Sunday in the Ecuadoran port city of Guayaquil in an attack the government blamed on organized crime, officials said. Interior Minister Patricio Carrillo said “organized-crime mercenaries,” long involved in illicit drug traffic, were “now…

Fireworks warehouse explodes in Armenia mall, killing 3, injuring dozens

Firefighters at work after explosions ripped through a fireworks warehouse in a shopping mall in Yerevan, Armenia YEREVAN, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Blasts ripped through a fireworks warehouse in a shopping centre in the Armenian capital of Yerevan on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported, killing three people and injuring more…

Rain brings relief to France fires, but more evacuated in south

TOULOUSE (France), Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A forest fire that flared anew in southern France sent 1,000 more people fleeing while overnight rain brought blazes elsewhere in the country under control, officials said. France has been buffeted this summer by a historic drought as well as a series of heatwaves…

France: By air, land, police track forest fire-starters

Austrian firefighters help to extinguish a fire in a forest of South Gironde, near Belin-Beliet SOULAC-SUR-MER (France), Aug (NNN-AGENCIES) — On the ground, two officers from a special mobile brigade of France’s paramilitary gendarmerie speed a long a forest track. Above them, a helicopter scans the landscape to warn them…