Italy recalls Swiss ambassador after Crans-Montana bar fire suspect is released

Owners of Le Constellation bar Jacques Moretti and Jessica Moretti  ROME, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni voiced outrage after the release of Jacques Moretti, co-owner of a Swiss bar where 40 people lost their lives and 116 others were injured during New Year’s celebrations. In a…

US Pres Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs if it ‘makes a deal with China’

Trump and Carney pictured in June at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Canada. WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump has threatened to slap a 100% tariff on Canadian goods if the country strikes a trade deal with China. “If Canada makes a deal with China,…

South Africa: Economic recovery continues to improve steadily

PRETORIA, Jan 25 (NNN-SANEWS) — While the South African government’s efforts to support economic recovery are gaining momentum, more need to be done to significantly reduce unemployment, said the Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation, Maropene Ramokgopa. “South Africa is making progress, but more must be done…

Greece seeks to toughen punishment for migrant smuggling

Migrants prepare to board a Rigid inflatable boat ATHENS, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Greece’s migration ministry said it had submitted a new bill to parliament aimed at toughening penalties for migrant trafficking, including life sentences. Greece was the main entry point into Europe for Syrian refugees at the height of…

France: Pres Macron vows to speed up social media ban for under-15s

PARIS, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to speed up the legislative process for a social media ban on under-15s, with the goal of enacting it in September this year. “I have asked the government to activate the accelerated procedure so it can go as quickly as possible,” he…

Cocaine lab explosion kills nine in Colombia

BOGOTA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A cocaine laboratory explosion killed nine people Friday on Colombia’s Pacific coast, police said. The blast happened in southwest Narino department in a cocaine-producing area inhabited by the Indigenous Awa people and rife with illegal armed groups. Eight people were wounded. These victims worked for…

Nigeria: Seven miners shot dead in restive Plateau

ABUJA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Seven people were shot dead in an overnight attack at a mining site in Nigeria’s central Plateau state, a local youth group and a state official said.Plateau is one of several ethnically and religiously diverse hinterland states known as the Middle Belt, where communal conflict…

Algerian senate urges review of law declaring French colonisation a crime

Algerian Senate ALGIERS, Jan 24 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Algeria’s Senate has demanded revisions to a historic law declaring France’s 1830-1962 colonization a crime, creating legislative discord just weeks after the lower house unanimously passed the bill demanding an apology and reparations from Paris.While the lower house’s December 24 vote classified colonization…

Guinea: African Union lifts sanctions

Former junta leader Mamady Doumbouya won the country’s December election ADDIS ABABA, Jan 24 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — After it imposed sanctions on Guinea following the 2021 coup, the African Union has announced it is lifting them.It comes after what the Union described as ‘the successful organisation of the presidential election’ in…

South Africa to step aside from G20 during United States presidency

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa PRETORIA, Jan 24 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — South Africa’s finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, has confirmed that the country will step back from its G20 engagements during the United States presidency of the grouping.Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Thursday, he described the decision…