Norway to label products from Israeli settlements

The Psagot winery in the West Bank OSLO, June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Israel on Saturday condemned Norway’s decision to label products from Israeli settlements with their place of origin. A statement from Israel’s foreign ministry said the position “will adversely affect bilateral relations between Israel and Norway, as well as…

Morocco bans film about daughter of Prophet Muhammad

“The Lady of Heaven” will not receive a licence to be shown in the country, the Moroccan Cinematographic Centre (CCM) said RABAT, June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Morocco announced it had banned a British film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, which Muslims in a number of countries have denounced…

Brazil confirms 2nd case of monkeypox

SAO PAULO, June 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil on Saturday confirmed its second case of monkeypox, detected in a 29-year-old man who arrived this week from Spain. The man was put into isolation in the town of Vinhedo, as a laboratory in Spain informed him of his positive test result after…

UN condemns attack on hospital in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region

YAOUNDE, June 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has strongly condemned an attack on a hospital in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone region of Southwest. “Attacks on healthcare workers, patients and facilities are serious violations of international human rights law,” Matthias Naab, UN humanitarian…

Migrant caravan disbands after Mexico grants temporary visas

Migrants walk on the road at the migrant caravan in Huixtla, Chiapas MEXICO CITY, June 12 (NNN-Xinhua) — The migrant caravan that began to pass through the Mexican state of Chiapas on June 6 with the aim of reaching the United States disbanded Saturday as Mexican officials offered temporary visas…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russia hands out passports in occupied Ukraine cities

Russian troops in occupied Melitopol  MOSCOW, June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Russian occupation authorities in southern Ukraine say they have started handing out Russian passports to locals in two cities – Kherson and Melitopol. Ukraine condemns the creation of Russian citizens on its territory as “Russification”. President Vladimir Putin is…

Mexico: Attack on poultry farm leaves six dead

 CHILPANCINGO (Mexico), June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Six people were killed and two others wounded Saturday in a gun attack on workers at a chicken farm in Mexico’s troubled southeastern state of Guerrero, the regional prosecutor’s office said. Authorities are investigating “the events that occurred in Petaquillas (Guerrero) where two people…

38 hostages kidnapped by Haiti gang freed

PORT-AU-PRINCE, June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nearly 40 people taken hostage in a mass kidnapping in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince were freed on Saturday, one day after they were abducted by a gang, a transporters’ union announced. “The passengers who had been kidnapped were released… on 11 June,” the Haitian Owners and…

Five Chinese kidnapped from DR Congo gold mine freed

BUKAVU (DRCongo), June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Five Chinese nationals working at a gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s conflict-plagued east who were kidnapped in late November have been released, local officials said. The five were freed on Monday, Aime Kawaya Mutipula, administrator of Fizi territory in South Kivu province,…

Hundreds in Burkina Faso protest ‘abandonment’ to jihadists

OUAGADOUGOU, June 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Several hundred people protested in southeastern Burkina Faso Saturday against what they described as the government having left them to their own devices to fend off deadly jihadist attacks. The protest is the first of its kind since Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba took power following a…