Western embassies in Libya welcome Action Plan to withdraw foreign forces from Libya

TRIPOLI, Oct 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — Western embassies in Libya welcomed the comprehensive Action Plan signed two days ago by the Libyan 5+5 Joint Military Commission (JMC) to withdraw foreign forces from Libya. “The Embassies of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States in Libya join Special Envoy…

Covid-19: Venezuela receives over 2 mln doses of vaccines through COVAX

Workers offload the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines under the COVAX scheme CARACAS, Oct 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — Venezuela received more than 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX program in another step towards the goal of vaccinating 70 percent of its population. Venezuelan Health Minister Carlos Alvarado welcomed the shipment of…

US shooting: Three men arrested in connection with mass shooting in Minnesota; 1 dead, 14 injured

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Three men have been arrested in connection with an early Sunday morning shootout at a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, that left one woman dead and 14 people injured. “Three men have been arrested in connection to this morning’s shootings and the tragic death of…

Algerian president demands ‘total respect’ from France

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune ALGIERS, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune demanded France’s “total respect”, following a row over visas and critical comments from Paris about the North African country. Last weekend Algeria recalled its ambassador from Paris and banned French military planes from its airspace, which France regularly…

Pro-EU rallies draw tens of thousands in Poland

WARSAW, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tens of thousands of Poles rallied on Sunday in defence of their country’s EU membership, after Poland’s top court last week issued a landmark ruling against the primacy of EU law. The pro-EU demonstrations were called by former EU chief Donald Tusk, now leader of the…

Death toll from Russian alcohol poisoning incident rises to 34

Illegal alcohol confiscated by police has been found to contain poisonous methanol MOSCOW, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll from a mass poisoning linked to illegal alcohol in southwest Russia rose to 34, and 24 more people were being treated in hospital, local authorities said. Investigators in the Orenburg…

Spain to evacuate more Afghan workers, families left behind

MADRID, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Spanish authorities said that the country has started a new evacuation operation to extract more Afghans and their families left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Spain’s defence ministry confirmed that it is working with the foreign ministry on a new evacuation mission. The…

Update: US says Taliban talks in Doha were ‘candid and professional’

Other areas of focus during the meet included the participation of women in Afghan society WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States said the first face-to-face meeting between senior US and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was “candid and professional” and that the US side…

Ukraine parliament sacks speaker after dispute with Pres Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky KIEV, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — After a dispute with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the parliament in Kiev has dismissed its speaker, Dmytro Razumkov.The prominent politician, who turned 38 last Friday, is seen as a possible rival to Zelensky in the 2024 presidential election.Some 284 deputies in…

More than 200 arrests made after crackdown in Belarus

MINSK, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The authoritarian power apparatus in Belarus has again arrested more than 200 dissidents for allegedly making statements critical of the government.They are being investigated for negative comments on social networks following a raid by the KGB secret service, Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakov said in the…