Nicaragua hands over Taiwanese Embassy to Chinese authorities

MANAGUA, Jan 2 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Nicaragua’s Government has seized former Taiwan’s Embassy in Managua and handed it over to China, which maintains the Asian island is nothing but a rogue province. The Nicaraguan government has seized the former embassy and diplomatic offices of Taiwan, saying they belong to China. Before…

US Pres Biden congratulates Chilean president-elect and both leaders agree on an agenda of issues to discuss

SANTIAGO, Jan 2 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — United States president Joe Biden contacted Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric to congratulate him on his electoral victory on Dec 21 and to talk about future collaboration and cooperation between the two countries. Boric, who is spending Christmas and New Year with his family in Punta…

Covid-19: Europe tops 100 million cases

 PARIS, Jan 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Europe has recorded over 100 million coronavirus cases, more than a third of all infections worldwide, since the start of the pandemic.   The continent has once again become the pandemic’s epicentre in recent months, and is battling an upsurge of cases spurred on by…

US: Three people missing in Colorado wildfire

 SUPERIOR (Colorado, US), Jan 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Three people are missing after a wildfire tore through several Colorado towns, quickly destroying nearly 1,000 homes as part of the latest in a string of US natural disasters.    “We’re very fortunate that we don’t have a list of 100 missing. But…

Team Canada CEO “worried” if Beijing Winter Olympics can go ahead as planned

Workers attach signage near Big Air Shougang, a competition venue for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, at Shougang Park OTTAWA, Jan 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — With just over a month until the Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony the CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) said he is increasingly concerned if…

US airport chaos as more than 2,600 flights cancelled due to covid-19, bad weather

Passengers wait in line to check in for their flight at the Dulles International Airport WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Air travel continued to be severely disrupted in the United States, with bad weather in parts of the country adding to the impact of a massive spike in Covid-19 infections…

Covid-19: France is sixth country with more than 10 million cases since start of pandemic

PARIS, Jan 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France became the sixth country in the world to report more than 10 million COVID-19 infections since the outbreak of the pandemic, according to official data published on Saturday. French health authorities reported 219,126 new confirmed cases in a 24-hour period, the fourth day in…

US removes Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea from trade pact

WASHINGTON, Jan 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden’s administration announced that it had excluded Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea from a US-Africa trade agreement, saying the actions of the three governments violated its principles. “The United States today terminated Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea from the AGOA trade preference program due to actions…

Jamaica to deport Colombian wanted in Haiti president assassination

KINGSTON, Jan 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A former Colombian military member implicated in last year’s assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moise will be deported from Jamaica to his home country on Jan 3, Jamaica’s attorney general said. Mario Antonio Palacios, 43, is accused by Haitian authorities of forming part of a…

Sudan’s authorities order probe into mass protests

A man chants slogans during a protest to denounce the October military coup, in Khartoum KHARTOUM, Jan 2 (NNN-Xinhua) — Sudan’s Security and Defense Council ordered to speed up investigations into Thursday’s mass protests in the capital Khartoum and neighboring areas which resulted in the deaths of four protesters and…