Two Pakistan boxers missing in Britain after Commonwealth Games

LONDON, Aug 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two Pakistani boxers have gone missing in Britain after the end of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, a team official said. Suleman Baloch and Nazeerullah Khan failed to show up for the team’s scheduled departure, Pakistan Boxing Federation secretary Nasir Tang said. “Later we got…

Arctic warming four times faster than rest of Earth: Study

PARIS, Aug 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet over the last 40 years, according to research that suggests climate models are underestimating the rate of polar heating. The United Nations’ climate science panel said in a special report in…

Ecuador confirms 16 monkeypox cases, including a 9-year-old child

QUITO, Aug 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — Ecuador is facing a monkeypox outbreak with 16 cases confirmed, a health official said. “We have an outbreak in Ecuador due to the unusual increase in cases of a pathology that did not exist and we continue to make epidemiological fences so that the number…

Remains of small armour-plated dinosaur unearthed in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Aug 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Paleontologists heralded the discovery of a previously unknown small armored dinosaur in southern Argentina, a creature that likely walked upright on its back legs roaming a then-steamy landscape about 100 million years ago. The Cretaceous Period dinosaur, named Jakapil kaniukura, would have been well-protected…

UN slams ‘unconscionable’ killing of Palestinian children

A Palestinian clown carries a child during a show amidst the rubble of a building destroyed in the latest round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip GENEVA, Aug 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN rights chief voiced alarm at the number of Palestinian…

Cuban oil fire all but out, blackouts and gas lines lengthen

HAVANA, Aug 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Cubans have been left to endure six- to 18-hour blackouts, and search for ever-scarcer gasoline in the wake of a spectacular blaze that destroyed 40 per cent of Cuba’s main fuel depot and shuttered its only supertanker port. The fire began on Friday when lighting struck a…

US: Police shoot dead armed man who tried to breach Ohio FBI building

CINCINNATI (Ohio, US), Aug 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An armed man who tried to breach the FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio, was killed in a shootout with police on Thursday, following a car chase and a long standoff in a cornfield, officials said. Police had yet to identify the dead man…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Donors pledge 1.5 billion euros more for Ukraine

     COPENHAGEN, Aug  12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Ukraine donors’ conference in Copenhagen of 26 countries pledged 1.5 billion euros more aid for training and equipment for Kyiv’s forces, the Danish defence minister said.  “All the participating nations here pledged for support, for training activities, demining activities, some with concrete donations,” Morten Bodskov said.  “The…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: US backs demilitarized zone at Ukraine Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant; UN wants immediate end to military activity around the plant

   WASHINGTON, Aug  12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States supports calls by the United Nations and others to establish a demilitarized zone around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, now occupied by Russian forces, the State Department said.  “We continue to call on Russia to cease all military operations at or near Ukrainian nuclear…

Cyclone causes havoc in southern Brazil

BRASILIA, Aug 11 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — A subtropical cyclone has left substantial damage and many people injured in the Brazilian southern state of Santa Catarina, where the seaside resorts have been placed under alert amid landslides. Some structures were even swept into the Camboriú river between Tuesday and Wednesday, it was…