Judge indicts Franco-era Spanish minister for four charges of homicide

A statue of former Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco being loaded into a box MADRID, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An Argentine judge, who has investigated a series of cases relating to the Franco dictatorship in Spain, has indicted a former Spanish minister for four cases of alleged homicide. Judge Maria…

DR Congo protests turn violent as lawmakers select electoral commission chief

KINSHASA, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police in Democratic Republic of Congo used tear gas to break up clashes between supporters of the president and an opposition leader on Saturday, as lawmakers selected a new head of the electoral commission. The National Assembly chose Denis Kadima, an election expert with decades…

British MP’s killer was referred to counter-terrorism scheme: Reports

LONDON, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The attacker who fatally stabbed British lawmaker David Amess was referred to an official counter-terrorist scheme for those thought to be at risk of radicalisation, according to media reports. Police said late Saturday that detectives had until the coming Friday to question the suspect after he was detained under…

Seventeen US missionaries and family kidnapped in Haiti: Report

People outside Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-prince, Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — As many as 17 American Christian missionaries and their families, including children, were kidnapped on Saturday by gang members in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, US media reported. The kidnapping happened after the missionaries left an orphanage…

Venezuelan government suspends negotiations with opposition

CARACAS/PRAIA, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela said it would suspend negotiations with the opposition that were set to resume this weekend, after Cape Verde extradited Colombian businessman Alex Saab to the United States on money laundering charges. The announcement was made by Socialist party legislator Jorge Rodriguez, who heads the government’s negotiating…

Mexico finds nearly 2,000 irregular migrants in one day

MEXICO CITY, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico identified in one day nearly 2,000 migrants in the country irregularly, the government said.  Control operations by the National Migration Institute (INM)on Friday turned up 1,957 migrants from different countries, the government statement said. The majority, 532 migrants, were identified in the state…

Afghanistan: UN says Taliban to announce plans for girls’ education ‘soon’

   UNITED NATIONS, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Taliban will announce a framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan “soon,” a senior United Nations official said, after four weeks in which Afghan boys have been allowed a secondary education but girls have not.   “The de facto minister of education told…

UK PM Boris Johnson visits church where lawmaker was stabbed to death

y Reuters|Oct. 16, 2021, at 4:19 a.m.SaveMore UK PM Johnson Visits Church Where Lawmaker Was Stabbed to DeathMore Chief Constable of Essex Police B. J. Harrington, Britain’s Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Boris Johnson hold flowers as they arrive at the scene where British MP David Amess was…

Taiwan’s leader pays respects to 46 dead in building inferno

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen pays her respect to those who died in a building fire at a morgue in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan TAIPEI, Oct 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Taiwan’s president on Saturday paid her respects at a morgue to the dozens of people killed in a deadly inferno that ripped through an…

Indian police probe murder at farmers’ protest site, detain suspect

Indian police probe murder at farmers’ protest site, detain suspect MUMBAI (India), Oct 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police investigating the killing of a Sikh man at the site of an ongoing farmers’ protest in New Delhi said on Saturday they had arrested a suspect from a Sikh warrior sect, after the…