US: At least 6 dead, 8 injured in highway pileup in Montana following a dust storm

LOS ANGELES, July 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least six people died after a dust storm caused a 21-car-pileup on a highway in the US State of Montana Friday evening, said authorities. Six people are confirmed dead and eight people were transported to nearby hospitals after the pileup, which is described…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: EU mulls sanctions as Russia accused of shelling Ukraine from nuclear plant

 KYIV, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The European Union will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, as Moscow is accused of using the continent’s largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and launch missiles on the surrounding regions of southern Ukraine. The situation at the captured Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russia has been to Iran twice in last month to assess drones – US

 WASHINGTON, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian officials have recently visited Iran twice to assess combat drones, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said, as Moscow looks to bolster its arsenal for the war in Ukraine. Iran’s military hosted two showcases for Russian delegations at the Kashan airfield, on June 8…

Russia-Ukraine conflict must not blind West to African needs: French minister

 ABIDJAN, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Russia-Ukraine conflict “concerns the West as a whole” but at the same time must not lead to “forgetting Africa’s security” needs, France’s armed forces minister Sebastien Lecornu said. “We have a form of myopia in Europe and France, where the Ukraine war mobilises all…

At least 234 dead or hurt in Haiti gang violence from July 8-12: UN

 GENEVA, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Gang violence killed or injured at least 234 people from July 8-12 in Haiti’s Cite Soleil, an impoverished and densely populated neighbourhood of the capital Port-au-Prince, the United Nations said on Saturday. The unrest erupted between two rival factions and the city’s ill-equipped and understaffed…

Togo says gunmen kill ‘several’ in attack on north

LOME, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Togo officials on Saturday said several people were killed and others wounded when gunmen attacked four villages earlier this week in the country’s far north, where a jihadist insurgency is spilling over the border from Burkina Faso. It was the fourth attack in Togo since last…

Covid-19: Surge in vaccination after Namibia army advert

WINDHOEK, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 5,000 people have been newly vaccinated in Namibia in the last two weeks since the country’s military announced that new recruits should have evidence of taking Covid-19 jabs, health officials said. The Ministry of Defence announced that it was looking for 1,500 new members.…

Covid-19: Italy’s cases surpass 20 mln; 7th highest in the world

ROME, July 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — Italy’s Ministry of Health reported nearly 90,000 new coronavirus infections Saturday, bringing the country’s total number of officially diagnosed cases to 20.08 million since January 2020. Italy became the seventh country to officially surpass 20 million cases, according to World Health Organization data. Those with…

Tunisia resumes Int’l Festival of Carthage amid COVID-19 resurgence

Artists perform at the opening ceremony of the 56th International Festival of Carthage in Tunis TUNIS, July 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — The 56th International Festival of Carthage (FIC) has come back to Tunisia after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and when a new wave of infections is striking…

Over a thousand dinosaur footprints discovered in small Chilean town

Giant dinosaur footprints  SANTIAGO, July 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — A group of scientists have recently discovered more than a thousand dinosaur footprints in the small town of Huatacondo in northern Chile, making the town the place with the highest number of dinosaur footprints in Chile. “It is something truly unprecedented in…