White House says 20,000 Afghan interpreters asking for US asylum
WASHINGTON, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — About 20,000 Afghans who worked as interpreters for the United States during its war in…
Covid-19: Top Nigerian university sends students home over virus fears
LAGOS, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — One of Nigeria’s largest universities sent residential students home and said it would suspend physical…
Covid-19: Infections on the rise worldwide
PARIS, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — New Covid-19 infections have been on the rise across the world since late June, topping…
Covid-19: France’s Eiffel Tower to reopen after record nine-month closure
PARIS, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France’s Eiffel Tower reopen to visitors on Friday for the first time in nine months…
208-year jail sentence over school collapse in Mexico quake
MEXICO CITY, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Mexican court has sentenced a man who approved flawed construction work at a…
Pres Biden says sending US troops to Haiti ‘not on agenda’ for now
WASHINGTON, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden said that sending US troops to Haiti in the wake of the…
US shooting: One police officer dead, three wounded in Texas
HOUSTON (Texas, US), July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four police officers were shot and one died Thursday after confronting someone barricaded…
Cuba lifts customs restrictions on food and medicine after biggest protests in decades
Anti-government protesters march in Havana HAVANA, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Cuba announced it was temporarily lifting restrictions on travellers bringing…
Dozens killed in flooding in Europe and about 1,300 assumed missing in one German district
People ride on a trailer as the Dutch fire brigade evacuate people from their homes in South Limburg. BERLIN, July…
Venezuelan opposition figure Freddy Guevara arrested for “links to extremist groups”: Attorney General
Freddy Guevara CARACAS, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Prominent Venezuelan opposition figure Freddy Guevara was arrested on Monday, Attorney General Tarek…