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…

11 students drown, 10 rescued during school outing for river cleanup in Indonesia

Rescuers search for victims of drowning in a river in Ciamis, West Java JAKARTA, Oct 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Eleven students drowned and 10 others were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia’s West Java Province, officials said. Local officials said 150 students from an Islamic junior…

Guinea-Bissau’s coup attempt : French president promises support for country

PARIS, Oct 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed the President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, at the Elysee Palace, as Guinea-Bissau’s armed forces announce they had identified soldiers who were preparing a coup, to overthrow the constitutional order of the small West African country. “France will be at…

Nigeria: US cautious over claims key Daesh African leader is dead

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Claims from Nigeria that the leader of one of the fastest-growing Daesh terror group affiliates is dead are being met with extreme caution in the United States. Officials at the White House, Pentagon and State Department said they were aware of accounts that Islamic State…

2 Turkish soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Syria’s Idlib: monitor

DAMASCUS, Oct 16 (NNN-Xinhua) — Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four others wounded by a roadside bomb in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, a war monitor reported. The Friday bombing targeted Turkish military vehicles near the Maarrat Misrin area in the northern countryside of Idlib, said the Syrian Observatory…