Kenya Airways, SAA sign deal to form pan-African airline, to beat business slump
NAIROBI, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Troubled Kenya Airways (KQ) and South African Airways (SAA) have partnered to help shore up…
US Senate to vote Thursday in bid to avert government shutdown
WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Senate announced it would vote on a stopgap funding bill Thursday to…
US says ‘no hostile intent’ towards NKorea, still ready for talks
WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States said it bears “no hostile intent” towards North Korea and remains…
More than 100 dead in Ecuador’s latest prison violence
GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll from bloody clashes between rival gangs in an Ecuador prison…
South Africa tells Western envoys it needs funds to shift from coal
PRETORIA, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Africa told visiting climate envoys from the United States, Britain, Germany and France that…
Covid-19: Brazil medical institute to sell vaccines abroad
SAO PAULO, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil’s Butantan biomedical institute is in talks to sell a locally manufactured COVID-19 vaccine…
Extreme poverty in Venezuela rises to 76.6%: Study
CARACAS, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Around three-fourths of Venezuelans now live in extreme poverty as the once-prosperous OPEC nation’s hyperinflationary…
Romanian truckers, hit by taxes at home, tempted by British jobs
Romanian truckers protest pay cuts in front of the government headquarters in Bucharest BUCHAREST, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — For 32-year-old…
WHO horrified over sexual exploitation by aid workers in DR Congo
Dozens of women accused WHO and other aid agency staff of sexual abuse and exploitation KINSHASA, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) —…
Post-Brexit: UK risks French anger over fishing permits
PARIS, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Fresh tensions have surfaced between Britain and France over post-Brexit fishing rights. In the latest…