Covid-19: Canada starts vaccinating children 5-11 years old

   MONTREAL, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada began immunizing children aged 5-11 against Covid-19 Wednesday, joining a handful of nations including Israel and the United States in offering shots to this age group.    At Montreal’s convention center, a few dozen youngsters were among the first to receive the Pfizer…

Ethiopia PM at ‘battlefield’ front to fight rebels: state media

   ADDIS ABABA, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday reportedly joined the front line where government forces are battling rebels from the Tigray region, prompting US-led international callsfor a diplomatic solution and immediate ceasefire to the conflict.    The fighting in the north of Africa’s…

Covid-19: Germany’s death toll passes 100,000

A sign reading, “Mask obligation!“ is placed at the Christmas market in Frankfurt, Germany FRANKFURT, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 100,000 people have died of Covid-19 in Germany since the start of the pandemic, a public health agency announced Thursday. Europe’s largest economy is battling a fresh surge in…

Update: UK PM holds crisis meeting after Channel deaths

Migrants are helped by RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboat before being taken to a beach in Dungeness, on the south-east coast of England, after crossing the English Channel LONDON, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson convened top officials for crisis talks after at least 27 migrants…

Covid-19: UK man jailed for Covid bomb hoax

LONDON, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A British man with an “obsessive interest” in Covid-19 was jailed on Wednesday for more than two years after sparking a bomb scare at an AstraZeneca vaccine factory. Anthony Collins, 54, from Kent in southeast England, sent a suspicious parcel to the factory in Wales…

US: Pentagon creates new office to probe UFO reports

The Pentagon is creating a new office to investigate unidentified flying objects amid concerns that after broad probes it cannot explain mysterious sightings near highly sensitive military areas WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Pentagon is creating a new office to investigate unidentified flying objects amid concerns that after broad…

Nigeria: Motorists missing after mass abduction

ABUJA, Nov 25 (NNN-KBC) — Police in Nigeria’s north-west state of Kaduna say an unknown number of people have been kidnapped and one person shot dead by suspected armed gangs along a highway linking the state to the capital Abuja. The Sunday afternoon incident has triggered tension in the country’s…

Violence against women increases due to COVID-19: UN Women report

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 25 (NNN-Xinhua) — A new report of UN Women has highlighted the impact of COVID-19 on women’s safety at home and in public spaces. Almost half of women reported that they or a woman they knew experienced a form of violence since the start of the COVID-19…

Update: Sweden’s first female PM resigns hours after appointment

Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson was elected Sweden’s first female prime minister on Nov 24 STOCKHOLM, Nov 25 (NNN-Xinhua) — Shortly after Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson was elected by Parliament Sweden’s first female prime minister on Wednesday, she tendered her resignation faced with the harsh reality of having to…

South African city of Jo’burg elects first Black female mayor

Dr Mpho Phalatse was voted in as Johannesburg mayor JOHANNESBURG, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance, DA, won the mayoral election for the country’s largest city of Johannesburg on Monday. Mayor Mpho Phalatse becomes the first black woman to lead Johannesburg and the first woman since the…