About 100 US citizens, permanent residents still waiting to leave Afghanistan: Official

WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States is aware of about 100 American citizens and legal permanent residents (LPRs) who remain in Afghanistan and are ready to leave the country, a senior State Department official said. The State Department was working to get those people on flights out of…

ICC prosecutor now targets Taliban, Daesh, not US, in Afghan war crimes probe

A drone strike by the US military in Kabul killed 10 civilians including children in August THE HAGUE, Sept 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The International Criminal Court prosecutor said he was seeking approval to resume a war crimes investigation of Afghanistan, focusing on the actions of the Taliban and the Islamic…

UK puts army on standby as fuel pumps run dry as country faces Brexit-related shortage of fuel truck drivers

LONDON, Sept 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Britain put the army on standby to help with the ongoing fuel crisis as fears over tanker driver shortages led to panic buying, leaving many of the country’s pumps dry. “Limited number of military tanker drivers to be put on a state of readiness and deployed if…

French Pres Macron hit with egg during restaurant fair visit

    LYON, Sept 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man pelted French President Emmanuel Macron with an egg while he was visiting a restaurant and hotel trade fair in the southeastern city of Lyon on Monday.    The egg hit his shoulder but bounced off without breaking.    The assailant was quickly subdued…

Covid-19: Pfizer starts large trial for anti-Covid pill

  WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Pfizer said it had begun a middle-to-late stage clinical trial of a pill to stave off Covid in people who are exposed to infection.   Several companies are working on so-called oral antivirals, which would mimic what the drug Tamiflu does for influenza and…

UN concerned about ‘xenophobia’ against migrants in Chile

    SANTIAGO, Sept 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United Nations expressed concern at “violence and xenophobia” meted out to undocumented migrants in Chile over the weekend by locals fed up with their presence in the country.     Some 3,000 protesters took to the streets of the northern port city of Iquique…

Mass protest as Tunisia political crisis escalates

Opponents of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied shout slogans as they take part in a protest against what they call a coup TUNIS, Sept 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of people took to the streets of the Tunisian capital to protest President Kaïs Saied’s recent decrees bolstering the already near-total power he…

US: Woman and son die in suspicious baseball stadium fall – Police

A 40-year-old woman and her two-year-old son died in a fall from San Diego’s Petco Park baseball stadium which police have described as “suspicious“ LOS ANGELES, Sept 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 40-year-old woman and her two-year-old son died in a fall from San Diego’s Petco Park baseball stadium which police…

Update: One dead in strong quake on Greek island of Crete; 9 slightly injured

Firefighters look for people in the rubble of a demolished church following an earthquake, in Arkalochori on the island of Crete ATHENS, Sept 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A strong earthquake struck the Greek island of Crete early Monday, killing a man who was working in a church that collapsed and injuring…

UN chief calls for nuclear weapons to be eliminated

  UNITED NATIONS, Sept 27 (NNN-XINHUA) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, declaring that nuclear weapons must beeliminated from the world and a new era of dialogue, trust and peace must begin.   Addressing the threat of nuclear…