Two students, driver killed in Kosovo bus shooting

  GLLOGJAN (Kosovo), Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A gunman opened fire late Friday on a bus in Kosovo carrying school students, killing a boy and a girl and the driver, police said.   Another 14 year-old student was wounded but is in stable condition, Skender Dreshaj, the head of a…

UN chief condemns terrorist attack on UN-affiliated convoy in Somalia

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 27 (NNN-Xinhua) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned Thursday’s deadly terrorist attack on a UN-affiliated convoy in front of a school in Mogadishu, Somalia, said his deputy spokesman. The secretary-general extended his deepest condolences to the families of the victims and wished a swift recovery to…

19 killed in Mexico bus crash

MEXICO CITY, Nov 27 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least 19 people were killed and around 25 others injured on Friday after their bus crashed into a house in central Mexico due to a brake malfunction, a local official said. The brakes on the bus, which was running on a highway and…

Colombia charges former FARC rebels with destruction of Amazon

A parked car is seen on an illegal road in a deforested area of the Yari plains, in Caqueta, Colombia BOGOTA, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Colombia has charged the leader of a breakaway faction of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebel group with deforesting vast portions of…

Danish patrol kills four pirates in Gulf of Guinea: Navy

  Danish naval patrol forces onboard the frigate Esbern Snare have killed four pirates and wounded a fifth in an exchange of fire in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Nigeria COPENHAGEN, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Danish naval patrol killed four pirates in an exchange of fire in the…

Brazil health regulator calls for Africa travel restrictions, Bolsonaro dismissive

BRASILIA, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian health regulator Anvisa recommended on Friday that travel be restricted from some African countries due to the detection of a new COVID-19 variant, but President Jair Bolsonaro appeared to dismiss such measures. Anvisa said its recommendation, which would need government approval to be implemented,…

Covid-19: WHO says new variant is of ‘concern’, names it Omicron

WASHINGTON, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The discovery of a new coronavirus variant triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa and stock markets on both sides of the Atlantic suffered their biggest falls in more than a year. The United States will restrict travel…

Covid-19: Belgium detects first case of new variant in Europe

BRUSSELS, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Belgium detected Europe’s first confirmed case of the new variant of COVID-19 on Friday, and at the same time announced measures aimed at curbing a rapidly spreading fourth wave of coronavirus infections. Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke told a news conference that a case of variant…

Covid-19: Dutch PM Rutte orders nighttime lockdown to fight surge

AMSTERDAM, Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Dutch government on Friday ordered further restrictions including a nighttime closure of bars, restaurants and most stores to stem a record-breaking wave of COVID-19 cases that is threatening to overwhelm the country’s healthcare system. The surge in the Netherlands, the worst in Western Europe,…

French fishermen disrupt UK trade routes over fishing licence row

CALAIS (France), Nov 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French fishermen temporarily blockaded the port of Calais and Channel Tunnel rail link in an effort to disrupt trade between Britain and the continent on Friday, escalating a row over licences to fish in British waters. Fishing rights plagued Brexit talks for years, not…