Tunisia’s UGTT announces strike against proposed spending cuts

Tunisia’s UGTT announces strike against proposed spending cuts TUNIS, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tunisia’s powerful UGTT trade union has called for a national strike on June 16 to demand an increase in wages and oppose President Kais Saied’s proposed spending cuts and privatization as the country faces an economic crisis.“All…

French diplomats to go on strike Thursday – first time in 20 years

French foreign ministry civil servants demonstrate in Paris in 2003 PARIS, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French diplomats will go on strike for the first time in 20 years on Thursday in protest against a perceived lack of recognition and reforms pushed by President Emmanuel Macron that they say could damage…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Czech Republic sets up second camp for increasing Ukrainian refugees

Children in a refugee camp PRAGUE, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Firefighters in Prague have begun to set up a second tent camp for refugees from Ukraine, due to the large number of people that have arrived in the Czech capital since Russia’s invasion.The emergency shelter on a site owned by the…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russia shipping grain from occupied southern Ukraine

Wheat processing plant in Ukraine MOSCOW, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia, which has been blocking agricultural exports from Ukrainian ports for several weeks, has started importing grain from the occupied Black Sea region of Kherson.“The export of last year’s harvest to Russia has begun,” the deputy head of Kherson’s pro-Russian…

World’s ‘most neglected’ refugee crises all in Africa: NGO

PARIS, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The world is paying too little attention to a slew of mass displacements of people across Africa, risking starvation deaths and prolonging conflicts, the Norwegian Refugee Council warned in a reportpublished Wednesday. “With the all-absorbing war in Europe’s Ukraine, I fear African suffering will be…

Morocco economic rebound threatened by drought, Ukraine war

RABAT, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A withering drought and poor harvests plus price hikes fuelled by the war in Ukraine are threatening Morocco’s fragile economic recovery and exposing structural weaknesses, experts say. The North African kingdom had bounced back last year after a sharp recession in 2020 due to the…

Mexico bans sales of ‘harmful’ e-cigarettes

 MEXICO CITY, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico banned sales of electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices on Tuesday because of concerns about their health effects, the government announced. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said it was a “lie” to claim that e-cigarettes are a safe alternative to inhaling tobacco smoke.…

3 dead, 8 missing after Hurricane Agatha hits Mexico

OAXACA (Mexico), June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hurricane Agatha left at least three people dead and eight missing in southern Mexico, where heavy rains triggered landslides and flooding, officials said. The storm, the first hurricane of the Pacific season, was the strongest to make landfall along Mexico’s Pacific coast in May…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Pres Macron decries death of French reporter covering Ukrainian evacuation

Emmanuel Macron, French President PARIS, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French war reporter Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff died while accompanying a humanitarian evacuation near the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk, according to French officials.French President Emmanuel Macron and Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna expressed their condolences to the reporter’s family and to his employer,…

Kenya, Sierra Leone sign 7 cooperation agreements

Kenya has signed seven bilateral agreements with Sierra Leone NAIROBI, June 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kenya has signed seven bilateral agreements with Sierra Leone aimed at enhancing relations between the two countries.One of the agreements is on the establishment of a joint commission for cooperation, while the six others are Memoranda…