Covid-19: US rolls out vaccine for young children, ending long wait for some parents

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Seven-year-old Gael Coreas stuck out his left arm fearlessly to receive his first COVID-19 shot at a health clinic in the nation’s capital on Wednesday (Nov 3), wincing briefly as cameras flashed to capture the moment. Coreas was in the first cohort of young children to…

Bali ‘suitcase murder’ accomplice arrested in US after return

Heather Mack inside an immigration car after being released from Kerobokan Prison in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Chicago woman who spent seven years jailed in Bali for helping kill her mother at a luxury hotel was arrested upon her return from Indonesia, the Justice Department…

WHO grants emergency approval for India’s Covaxin COVID-19 jab

     Bharat Biotech said Brazil, the Philippines, Iran and Mexico had also authorised its COVID-19 vaccine GENEVA, Nov 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization said it had issued an emergency use listing for Covaxin, a vaccine against Covid-19 produced by India’s Bharat Biotech.      Found to have 78 percent…

Six rebels, 2 soldiers killed in eastern DR Congo clashes; 36 attackers captured

KINSHASA, Nov 3 (NNN-Xinhua) — A group of rebels attacked several areas of the city of Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including military positions, early Wednesday, a local official said. Six attackers and two soldiers were killed after the attack, which began around 1:40 a.m. local…

Russian An-12 cargo plane engulfed in flames after crash landing in Siberia -emergency service

MOSCOW, Nov 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Russian Antonov An-12 cargo plane carrying seven people crash-landed in Siberia on Wednesday and was engulfed in flames after disappearing from radar just outside the city of Irkutsk, the emergency services ministry said. The plane crashed near the village of Pivovarikha, about 4,200 km…

Nicaragua: Electoral observers arrive for presidential election

MANAGUA, Nov 3 (NNN-TELESUR) — The vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, greeted the arrival of the electoral observors who will be present in the country to celebrate the general elections on Nov 7. “We have 46 brothers and sisters from Europe, 124 from Our Caribbean and Latin America and…

Cuban regime preparing to counter the 15N march; questions opposition leader

HAVANA, Nov 3 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — A leading member of the Cuban opposition was set free, with restrictions, on Tuesday following his detention by the government in the city of Santa Clara where he lives. “It’s all about 15 November” Guillermo Faríñas, the Sarajov Freedom Prize from the European Parliament, told…

Chile: Pres Piñera requests Congress to extend the state of emergency in Mapuche indigenous regions

SANTIAGO, Nov 3 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chilean president Sebastian Piñera announced he sent Congress a bill requesting a further 15 days extension of the state of emergency in four areas of the Biobío and Araucaria regions, where there have been violent breaches of law and order. Under the exceptional emergency state…

Covid-19: A quarter of LA police could be sacked over vaccine mandate

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva LOS ANGELES, Nov 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than a quarter of staff in the United States’ largest sheriff’s department could lose their jobs for refusing to comply with Covid-19 vaccine mandates, the sheriff said. Just half of Los Angeles County Sheriff employees are fully…

US state elections: New York elects ex-cop Adams as second ever Black mayor

New York City Democratic Mayor-elect Eric Adams NEW YORK, Nov 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ex-cop Eric Adams, who fought racial discrimination within the police, was elected New York’s next mayor on Tuesday and will become just the second African American to lead the United States’s largest city. He will take office…