Morocco, Israel sign landmark security cooperation pact

Morocco only recently normalized ties with Israel RABAT, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Israel and Morocco have signed a landmark agreement that lays the foundation for security cooperation, intelligence sharing, and future arms sales.The memorandum of understanding between Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and his Moroccan counterpart Abdellatif Loudiyi was signed…

Covid-19: Vaccines reduce transmission by 40% – WHO

GENEVA, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — COVID-19 vaccines reduce transmission of the dominant Delta variant by about 40 per cent, the WHO said, warning that people were falling into a false sense of security concerning jabs. The World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said many vaccinated people were wrongly thinking the jab…

US racism: Three white men found guilty of murdering black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia

A person protesting racial injustice holds a photo of Ahmaud Arbery during a May 2020 march in Washington BRUNSWICK (Georgia, US), Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Three white men were found guilty of murder on Wednesday (Nov 24) for shooting dead an African American man after chasing him in their pickup trucks,…

27 die in Channel’s deadliest migrant boat tragedy

Members of associations for the defence of migrants gather in Calais CALAIS, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 27 migrants trying to reach England from France died on Wednesday when their boat sank off the northern French coast, the deadliest disaster since the Channel became a hub for clandestine crossings.…

Mexico offers migrants permits to disband new caravan

  TUXTLA GUTIRREZ (Mexico), Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican immigration authorities said that they had offered temporary residency permits on humanitarian grounds to 2,500 US-bound migrants who set off in a caravan last week.   The migrants will be transferred to 10 different states around the country, National Institute of…

Belarus, Poland violating human rights at border: watchdog

  WARSAW, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Belarusian border guards may be guilty of torture against migrants on the country’s border with Poland, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, adding that both nations have committed “serious human rights violations”.   The group said in a report that the two governments “have an…

Sweden’s Andersson elected as nation’s first woman PM

STOCKHOLM, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sweden’s parliament elected Social Democratic party leader and current Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson as the country’s first woman prime minister, after she clinched a last-minute deal securing key support.  Andersson will succeed outgoing Prime Minister Stefan Lofven after a total of 117 members of parliament…

IAEA chief reports ‘no progress’ in talks with Iran

     VIENNA, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN nuclear watchdog’s head said there had been “no progress” in talks with Iran to resolve disputes over the monitoring of the country’s atomic programme, a day after returning from Tehran.    Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told a quarterly…

Russia launches new docking module to ISS

     MOSCOW, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the new Prichal docking module for the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the Roscosmos space agency said.     A live feed from Roscosmos showed the carrier rocket taking off against a dark evening sky…

African nations cling to fossil fuels despite climate call

    ABIDJAN, Nov 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — African oil and gas producers are likely to pay little heed to the mounting clamour to scrap fossil fuels, the biggest driver of the world’s climate crisis.    Adding to the pressure, the UN climate summit in Glasgow this month called for greater efforts towards a…