Indigenous group sues Canada utility for $1.6 bn over dam
MONTREAL, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada’s Innu community announced it had filed suit against Quebec province’s state-owned power company, alleging…
UN agencies aid South Africa’s mass vaccinations against measles outbreak
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 25 (NNN-XINHUA) — The UN team in South Africa is supporting government mass vaccination efforts to quell…
8 pupils die on their way to school as boat capsizes on Volta Lake
ACCRA, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Eight school children in Ghana’s Bono East Region were killed Tuesday after the boat taking…
Italian fuel station operators stage strike amid rising prices
ROME, Jan 25 (NNN-XINHUA) — Last-ditch efforts to avoid a national strike of gasoline and diesel distributors fell short Tuesday,…
Haiti faces protracted crisis: UN envoy
Helen La Lime, the UN secretary-general’s special representative and head of the UN Integrated Office in Haiti UNITED NATIONS, Jan…
Grief grips Asian Americans after California mass shootings
MONTEREY PARK (California, US), Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Asian Americans were reeling after two mass shootings in California targeting members…
WHO urges ‘immediate action’ after cough syrup deaths
A member of the Gambia Red Cross looks through sacks of collected cough syrups in Banjul GENEVA, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES)…
DR Congo prepares to welcome Pope Francis in capital Kinshasa
KINSHASA, Jan 25 (NNN-GNA) — The Democratic Republic of Congo is preparing to receive Pope Francis who will be visiting…
Tanzania’s government-funded university with no students for 13 years
Tanzania’s Mwalimu Nyerere University of Agriculture and Technology DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 25 (NNN-GNA) — Tanzania’s Mwalimu Nyerere University of…
Power crisis: International Relations Minister Pandor hopes South Africa will learn from Greece’s renewables-based energy system
PRETORIA, Jan 25 (NNN-SANEWS) — International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Dr Naledi Pandor, believes that the experience Greece has acquired…
