Covid-19: Mexico records most daily cases since February, signalling 5th wave

MEXICO CITY, June 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico reported 16,133 new COVID-19 cases in the country on Thursday, the highest daily number reported since late February, according to data released by the Health Ministry. The increase is a signal that another wave of the virus is spreading through the country, experts…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Europe told to get ready now for Russia to turn off all gas exports to region

A gas storage facility near the northern German town of Rehden PARIS, June 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Europe needs to prepare immediately for Russia to turn off all gas exports to the region this winter, according to the head of the International Energy Agency, who has called on governments to work on reducing…

Six killed in helicopter crash in US state of W. Virginia: reports

CHARLESTON (West Virginia, US), June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A helicopter crashed onto a road in a rural area of the US state of West Virginia on Wednesday evening, authorities said, with local media outlets reporting that six people on board were killed. The Office of Emergency Management in Logan County,…

80 arrested in Ecuadorian protests, police say

QUITO, June 23 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Ecuadorian police have reported that 80 people had been arrested in anti-government protests over the past few days following riots in Quito and other parts of the country where a curfew is in force and a state of emergency has been declared. A firearm had…

‘So many murders’: Pope mourns priests killed in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Pope Francis lamented the spiral of violence engulfing Mexico, after two Jesuit priests and a man seeking sanctuary were gunned down inside a church. The pope, himself a Jesuit, expressed sadness and dismay over the killings of men he called his “brothers” in the…

Covid-19: Ecuadoran president tests positive

QUITO, June 23 (NNN-Xinhua) — Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso has tested positive for COVID-19, the General Secretariat of Communication of the Presidency said. Lasso has no symptoms thanks to being vaccinated and he is “working for the country and for peace,” it said. According to the Ecuadorian Health Ministry, since…

Monkeypox: Vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic ready to meet demand as disease spread around the world

COPENHAGEN, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — As the lone laboratory manufacturing a licensed vaccine against monkeypox, Danish company Bavarian Nordic has seen its order book fill up as the usually rare disease spreads around the world. “The approval we got in 2019, when we only sold maybe a few hundred doses,…

Greece wildfires: Fire-ravaged Evia will take decades to heal

 LIMNI (Greece), June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nearly a year after Greece’s second-largest island of Evia was devastated by some of the worst wildfires in the country’s history, nature is making a slow comeback. Grass is growing on blackened mountainsides under the carcasses of burnt trees and birds are singing again.…

France: Pres Macron urges ‘compromises’ to break political impasse

PARIS, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Emmanuel Macron urged France’s political forces to make compromises to end a political deadlock sparked by his failure to retain a parliamentary majority that threatens to wreck his reform plans. Macron’s centrist alliance finished Sunday’s parliamentary elections 44 seats short of a majority in…

Hungary: US swimmer rescued from World Championship pool after fainting

BUDAPEST, June 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez was dramatically rescued from the bottom of the pool by her coach after fainting at the World Aquatics Championships in Hungary’s capital, Budapest. Andrea Fuentes leapt in to rescue Team USA’s Alvarez, who had sunk to the bottom of the…