Mexico offers migrants permits to disband new caravan

  TUXTLA GUTIRREZ (Mexico), Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican immigration authorities said that they had offered temporary residency permits on humanitarian grounds to 2,500 US-bound migrants who set off in a caravan last week.   The migrants will be transferred to 10 different states around the country, National Institute of…

Belarus, Poland violating human rights at border: watchdog

  WARSAW, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Belarusian border guards may be guilty of torture against migrants on the country’s border with Poland, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, adding that both nations have committed “serious human rights violations”.   The group said in a report that the two governments “have an…

Sweden’s Andersson elected as nation’s first woman PM

STOCKHOLM, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sweden’s parliament elected Social Democratic party leader and current Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson as the country’s first woman prime minister, after she clinched a last-minute deal securing key support.  Andersson will succeed outgoing Prime Minister Stefan Lofven after a total of 117 members of parliament…

IAEA chief reports ‘no progress’ in talks with Iran

     VIENNA, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN nuclear watchdog’s head said there had been “no progress” in talks with Iran to resolve disputes over the monitoring of the country’s atomic programme, a day after returning from Tehran.    Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told a quarterly…

Russia launches new docking module to ISS

     MOSCOW, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the new Prichal docking module for the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the Roscosmos space agency said.     A live feed from Roscosmos showed the carrier rocket taking off against a dark evening sky…

African nations cling to fossil fuels despite climate call

    ABIDJAN, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — African oil and gas producers are likely to pay little heed to the mounting clamour to scrap fossil fuels, the biggest driver of the world’s climate crisis.    Adding to the pressure, the UN climate summit in Glasgow this month called for greater efforts towards a…

Sudanese ministers resign in protest against deal with military

Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok KHARTOUM, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Twelve cabinet ministers have submitted their resignation to newly reinstated Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok in protest against a political deal between the prime minister and the country’s ruling military council. On Sunday, Hamdok was reinstated after signing a political agreement with the head of…

Peru’s Congressional Committee declares ex-Bolivian Pres Evo persona non grata

LIMA, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Committee within Peru’s Congress agreed to declare former Bolivian President Evo Morales a persona non grata for meddling with internal politics, it was announced. The Foreign Relations Committee approved to “Declare Juan Evo Morales Ayma persona non grata in our country for his negative…

Six bodies found hanging in violence-hit Mexican state

Agents remove bodies hanging from a bridge in Cuauhtemoc City MEXICO CITY, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The bodies of six people were found Tuesday hanging from a bridge and a tree in an area of northern Mexico shaken by cartel turf wars, authorities said. The gruesome discoveries were made in…

US says it will resume talks with Taliban next week

Taliban soldiers stand guard near Serena Hotel after US and UK governments warned to avoid hotels in Kabul citing threats, in Kabul, Afganistan WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States will resume talks with the Taliban next week in Qatar, addressing among other issues the fight against terrorism and…