Update: Mexico president urges increased effort to save trapped miners

Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visits a coal mine that collapsed leaving miners trapped in Sabinas, Coahuila state, Mexico AGUJITA (Mexico), Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — : Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called for intensified efforts to save 10 workers trapped in a flooded coal mine, during a visit…

German diplomat in Brazil arrested, accused of killing husband

The entrance of the building where Belgian Walter Henri Maximilien Biot, husband of German consul Uwe Herbert Hahn, died RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian police said they arrested a German diplomat for allegedly killing his husband at their home in an upscale Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood, then…

US violence racism: Police say killings of four Muslim men may be linked

A man cries over the grave of his brother at Fairview Memorial Park in Albuquerque ALBUQUERQUE (New Mexico, US), Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police in the US state of New Mexico said they are investigating the murders of three Muslim men that they suspect are related to a fourth homicide…

Healthy life expectancy in Africa grows by nearly 10 years: WHO

BRAZZAVILLE, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Healthy life expectancy among Africans living in mainly high and upper middle-income countries on the continent, has increased by almost 10 years, the UN health agency, WHO, said. The World Health Organization announced the good news after examining life expectancy data among the 47 countries that make up…

London’s Horniman Museum to return 72 artefacts to Nigeria

The Benin plaque of Chief Uwangue and Portuguese traders is one of the objects being returned to Nigeria  LONDON, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A London museum says it has agreed to return to Nigeria artefacts looted in the 19th Century from the Kingdom of Benin. The Horniman Museum said ownership…

Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champ fatally shot; off-duty policeman surrendered himself

SAO PAULO, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian jiu-jitsu great Leandro Lo, an eight-time world champion, was fatally shot in a Sao Paulo club Sunday, his family’s lawyer said. An off-duty police officer has been arrested for allegedly shooting the 33-year-old martial arts champ, after turning himself in to the authorities,…

Any attack on a nuclear plant ‘suicidal’: UN chief Guterres

TOKYO, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Any attack on a nuclear plant is “suicidal”, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday after fresh shelling hit a huge atomic power complex in southern Ukraine. Moscow and Kyiv blame each other for the latest strike at the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest nuclear power…

Heatwaves: Over 4,000 hectares of land destroyed in wildfires in northwestern Spain

Firefighters battle a wildfire in Cebreros, Castilla y Leon, Spain MADRID, Aug 8 (NNN-Xinhua) — Over 4,000 hectares of land have been destroyed in seven wildfires that are still burning in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain, according to local firefighting services. At least 2,000 hectares have so…

Heatwaves: Wildfires in NW France burn over 300 hectares of land

Wildfire in northwestern France PARIS, Aug 8 (NNN-Xinhua) — Wildfires in northwestern France’s region of Brittany that broke out on Saturday have burned more than 300 hectares of land and forced evacuations in some cities, French daily newspaper Le Figaro reported. According to the report, 225 hectares of land have…

Nigerian security forces kill gunmen, rescue kidnappees in northern state; 4 soldiers, 2 civilians killed in terrorist attack in Mali

ABUJA, Aug 8 (NNN-Xinhua) — Eight gunmen were killed and six kidnapped victims were rescued by the military and police in Nigeria’s northern Katsina state, police said. Gambo Isah, the police spokesperson in Katsina, said in a statement that police operatives conducted on Saturday morning an intelligence-based operation, repelling gunmen…