Motorcycle races: Father and son take Isle of Man TT deaths to five for 2022

Roger Stockton and son Bradley Stockton became the fourth and fifth people to die at the Isle of Man TT event this year DOUGLAS (Isle of Man), June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll at the 2022 Isle of Man TT motorcycle races rose to five on Friday after organisers…

Russia, China unveil first road bridge

MOSCOW, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia and China unveiled the first road bridge between the two countries as Moscow pivots to Asia amid its confrontation with the West over Ukraine.    The kilometre-long bridge over the Amur River links the far eastern Russian city of Blagoveshchensk with Heihe in northern China.  …

Italy to kill 1,000 pigs in swine fever outbreak

  ROME, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A thousand pigs will be slaughtered after two cases of swine fever were detected on a farm in Rome’s Lazio region, officials said, spurring fears of a blow to the country’s pork industry.    “We have to slaughter all the pigs in the contaminated area very quickly,” Angelo…

South Africa: 15 dead, 37 injured in bus-truck collision

PRETORIA, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Fifteen people were killed and 37 injured Friday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria, an emergency services spokesman said. “The death toll is now 15 dead, and 37 people have been injured, some of them…

Spain blaze stabilises, letting 2,000 people go home

 MADRID, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Some 2,000 people who fled their homes when a wildfire broke out two days ago in southern Spain were allowed home Friday as the blaze “stabilised”, officials said.    The fire in the forested mountainous area of Sierra Bermeja, just inland from Estepona, was no…

Search in Italy for missing helicopter carrying seven people

  ROME, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The search for a helicopter which disappeared in Italy with seven people on board intensified Friday after the weather improved, a spokesman for the Alpine rescue service said.    The helicopter was carrying a pilot and six passengers — four Turkish nationals and two Lebanese, according to…

Germany: Four injured in knife attack at university; two injured in separate knife attack at elementary school

BERLIN, June 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four people were injured in a knife attack on a university campus in Germany on Friday, police said, adding that the perpetrator has been detained.      Police are conducting a “major operation” in the area of the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences where “several people…

Greece refutes Turkiye’s claims in Aegean Sea

A Dutch NATO warship patrolling the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek Chios island ATHENS, June 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Greece on Thursday published a series of historical maps looking to refute Turkish accusations that Athens is violating peace treaties that followed World War I and World War…

Somalia: New Somali President inaugurated, warns of famine

MOGADISHU, June 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was inaugurated as the 10th president of Somalia Thursday in a colorful ceremony attended by hundreds of people, including the leaders of Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti. In his inaugural speech, Mohamud warned that in addition to the danger posed by al-Shabaab, severe…

Uruguayan Air Force to help trace possible mass graves

MONTEVIDEO, June 10 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Uruguay’s Air Force (FAU) will assist the Human Rights Institute in tracing possible burials of people forcibly disappeared during the military dictatorship using state-of-the-art laser technology, Defense Minister Javier García announced. Frente Amplio (Broad Front) opposition Deputies Carlos Rodríguez and Micaela Melgar made the request…