Covid-19: WHO urges ‘rational’ measures against Omicron variant

 GENEVA, Dec 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization called for countries to keep calm and take “rational” measures in response to the new, fast-spreading Covid variant Omicron, which has sparked global panic.   “We call on all member states to take rational, proportional risk-reduction measures,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom…

Covid-19: Latest global developments

  PARIS, Nov 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis:   – No ’cause for panic’: President Joe Biden tells Americans in a televised address from the WhiteHouse that the newly identified Covid variant Omicron “is a cause for concern, not a cause for panic”.…

Russia to send more spacecraft to new national orbital station to ISS

    MOSCOW, Nov 30 (NNN-TASS) — The frequency of flights to the future Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS) will be higher compared to space missions to the International Space Station (ISS), Roscosmos Chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.     “The frequency of flights will be higher and that is why…

Pentagon claims Russia continues boosting troops near border with Ukraine

  WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (NNN-TASS) — The United States continues to see additions to the Russian forces near the Russian-Ukrainian border, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs John Kirby told a briefing onMonday.   Asked to comment on reports saying that Russian troops are allegedly staying near…

Ecuador renews state of emergency over prison violence

 QUITO, Nov 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ecuador’s president on Monday renewed for one month a state of emergency aimed at restoring calm in the country’s prisons, where riots have left more than 300 inmates dead this year.    President Guillermo Lasso signed a decree that allows for mobilization of police and…

Mexico: Over 95,000 registered as disappeared, impunity ‘almost absolute’ – UN

protest rally in Mexico City on the case of Ayoitzinapa rural school attended by the 43 disappeared students MEXICO CITY, Nov 30 (NNN-UNNS) — As of last Friday, more than 95,000 people have been officially registered as disappeared in Mexico. That includes a worrying increase in the number of women and children, a trend that has…

Magnitude 7.5 quake damages hundreds of houses in Peru

The arrival of the president, Pedro Castillo, to the area where an earthquake of 7.5 degrees on the scale occurred LIMA, Nov 30 (NNN-EFE) — A 7.5 magnitude earthquake that shook northern Peru Sunday left at least 12 people injured and damaged hundreds of homes in the remote Amazon region…

Honduras about to have first woman president; LatAm takes turn to the left

TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 30 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chavist candidate Xiomara Castro seemed on track Monday morning to become the first female president of Honduras after 38.94% of the votes had been counted. Castro, a former first lady whose husband Manuel Zelaya was ousted by a coup in 2009, had obtained 53.44% of…

Sweden’s Andersson elected PM for second time in less than a week

Current Swedish Finance Minister and Scocial Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson (Right) receives applause after Swedish parliament Riksdagen voted for the second time on her appointment as prime minister in Stockholm STOCKHOLM, Nov 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sweden’s parliament on Monday elected Magdalena Andersson as the country’s prime minister, the first…

EU, Russia, Iran optimistic after resumption of nuclear talks

VIENNA, Nov 30 (NNN-Xinhua) — Diplomats from EU, Russia and Iran expressed here on Monday optimism amid a fresh round of Iran nuclear talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal after a hiatus of more than five months. “I feel extremely positive about what I have seen today,” said…