Death toll hits four from flooding in western Canada

  MONTREAL, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll from record flooding in western Canada has risen to four, with a fifth person still missing, local authorities there said Saturday.   Torrential rains hit southwestern British Columbia last Sunday and Monday causing widespread flooding and landslides that damaged or destroyed…

Chileans to elect new president in fast-changing political landscape

  SANTIAGO, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Chileans head to the ballot box for the fourth time in 18 months Sunday, this time to elect a new president on whose watch the country will draft its first post-dictatorship constitution.   The poll comes two years after a social revolt against deep-rooted…

Four wounded after Burkina Faso protest against French army

  OUAGADOUGOU, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four people were treated for gunshot wounds in Burkina Faso Saturday after French and Burkinabe forces tried to deter protesters trying to block a French army convoy, local sources said.   A source in the town of Kaya north of the capital said demonstrators…

Somalia: Prominent journalist killed in Mogadishu suicide bombing

  MOGADISHU, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A prominent Somali journalist who was a staunch critic of jihadist group Al-Shabaab was killed by a suicide bomber as he left a restaurant in the capital Mogadishu Saturday, officials andcolleagues said.   Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the blast, which officials said killed Abdiaziz…

Sudan PM Hamdok to return to lead government after deal: mediators

   KHARTOUM, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sudan’s top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok have reached a deal for his returnand the release of the civilian leadership detained since last month’s militarycoup, mediators said Sunday.    “A political agreement has been reached between General Burhan, AbdallaHamdok, political…

Venezuelan musicians set world’s largest orchestra record

CARACAS, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thousands of Venezuelan musicians, most of them children and adolescents, have earned the title of the world’s largest orchestra. The record was set by 8,573 musicians. Guinness World Records in a video released on Saturday announced that the musicians, all connected to the country’s network…

Covid-19: Brazil reports 217 deaths in 24 hours, toll average lowest since April 2020

A health worker treats a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the Ronaldo Gazolla Hospital, in Rio de Janeiro BRASILIA, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil has had 8,833 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the past 24 hours, and 217 deaths from COVID-19, the health…

Blinken says US investing in Africa without unsustainable debt

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (centre) watches as Jeff Price, Cubic Transportation Systems Vice President and General Manager (left) and CETUD Director General Thierno Birahim signing an agreement during a commercial diplomatic event with US companies and the government of Senegal at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Dakar DAKAR,…

El Salvador plans first ‘Bitcoin City’, backed by bitcoin bonds

El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele speaks at the closing party of the “Bitcoin Week” where he announced the plan to build the first “Bitcoin City” in the world, in Teotepeque, El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — El Salvador plans to build the world’s first “Bitcoin City” which will…

Covid-19: Tens of thousands march in Vienna against COVID measures before lockdown

Demonstrators protest against COVID-19 measures in Vienna, Austria VIENNA, Nov 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tens of thousands of people, many of them far-right supporters, protested in Vienna against coronavirus restrictions a day after Austria’s government announced a new lockdown and said vaccines would be made compulsory next year. Whistling, blowing horns…