Morocco seizes 1.5 tonnes of cannabis

RABAT, May 29 (NNN-Xinhua) — Moroccan Navy has seized 1.5 tonnes of cannabis off the northwestern city of Tangier, state news agency MAP reported, citing a military source. The Navy’s coastguard foiled the smuggling attempt of a boat on Friday during a patrol, and handed the illegal substance over to…

Update: 37 dead in heavy rains in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 29 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least 37 people were killed and about 5,000 others displaced in northeastern Brazil due to heavy rains, authorities said. Recife City, the capital of northeastern Pernambuco State, is the most affected by the rains, where 35 people died and about 1,000 others…

Climate change effect on Peruvian glaciers debated in German court

Climate change brought on by greenhouse gas emissions from private enterprise and industries is responsible for melting glaciers, activists say HUARAZ (Peru), May 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — German judges and experts have arrived at the edge of a melting glacier high up in the Peruvian Andes to examine a complaint made…

Mexico confirms its first monkeypox case

MEXICO CITY, May 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Health officials in Mexico confirmed Saturday the country’s first known case of monkeypox, in a 50-year-old US resident being treated in Mexico City. The man, a permanent resident of New York City, “was probably infected in the Netherlands,” Hugo Lopez-Gatell, an undersecretary of health,…

Brazil: La Nina-induced downpours leave at least 28 dead

Firefighters working in the area of a landslide due to heavy rains in the Corrego do Jenipapo neighbourhood in Recife, Brazil BRASILIA, May 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 28 people were killed Saturday in Brazil by heavy rain that for days has lashed the metropolitan region of Recife, capital of northeastern…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Putin, Macron, Scholz discuss Ukraine arms, grain supplies

MOSCOW, May 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian President Vladimir Putin told the leaders of France and Germany that Moscow is ready to look for ways to ship grain stuck in Ukrainian ports but demanded the West lift sanctions. The Kremlin chief also warned French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf…

Nigeria: More than 30 die in stampede at church charity event where food were distributed

Slippers are seen on the street outside a church following a stampede in Port Harcourt on Saturday ABUJA, May  29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 30 people were killed on Saturday in  a stampede in southern Nigeria during an overcrowded church charity event where food was being distributed.       Shoes and slippers lay…

DR Congo classifies M23 rebels as terrorists

KINSHASA, May 28 (NNN-Xinhua) — The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has decided to classify the March 23 Movement (M23) as a terrorist group, a DRC government spokesperson said. “The M23 is now considered as a terrorist group and will be treated in the way (we…

Ethiopia unrest: Sudden arrest of 4,000 spells fear in Amhara

Local Amhara soldiers and youth militias  ADDIS ABABA, May 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ethiopia’s government has launched a crackdown against a powerful and increasingly autonomous regional security force, in a bold, and potentially risky move to extend central control over a fractious nation. The clampdown against armed groups in the giant…

US shooting: Armed female bystander kills man firing at birthday party in West Virginia

AR-15 style rifles  CHARLESTON (West Virginia, US) May 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A female party-goer stopped a potential mass shooting in the US when she pulled out her gun and fatally shot a man who had opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle on a crowd, police say. The gunman had been…