Update: Haiti searches for survivors after quake kills at least 304

 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Rescue workers scrambled to find survivors after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti early Saturday, killing at least 304 and toppling buildings in the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation still recovering from a devastating 2010 quake. The epicenter of the shaking, which rattled homes and sent terrified locals…

Covid-19: Cuba exceeds 500,000 total cases

People wearing face masks are seen on a street in Havana HAVANA, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — Cuba exceeded 500,000 total COVID-19 cases, after recording 8,312 new infections in the last day, for a total of 500,216 cases, as well as 85 more deaths, to total 3,842 deaths, according to the…

Haiti earthquake: LatAm leaders express solidarity following devastating earthquake

Members of the Cuban Medical Brigade helping injured people after an earthquake in Jeremie, Haiti MEXICO CITY, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — Several Latin American country leaders expressed their solidarity with the people of Haiti after a devastating earthquake there has left at least 304 people dead and more than 1,800…

71 illegal immigrants rescued off Libyan coast

TRIPOLI, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Libyan Navy said its coast guard rescued 71 illegal immigrants off the country’s western coast. The immigrants were on the way to Europe on a rubber boat when the coast guard patrol headed to rescue them after receiving a distress call, the Libyan Navy…

Pres Biden increases US troops deployment to Afghanistan amid Taliban advances

Taliban militants in Herat province, Afghanistan WASHINGTON, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — US President Joe Biden said that he had authorized the deployment of roughly 5,000 troops to Afghanistan to support personnel drawdown, warning the Taliban not to put US personnel and mission at risk. Biden said in a statement that…

US: Baby left alone with young siblings mauled to death by family dog

 +6 Ryan Francis Foster was mauled to death by his family dog NEW YORK, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 19-month-old toddler was mauled to death by his family’s dog after his father left him and his two other siblings alone in their Brooklyn apartment to go to work, police said.…

US shooting: Toddler accidentally shoots and kills mom while she’s on Zoom work call

Shamaya Lynn was on a work-related call Wednesday when she was shot ALTAMONTE SPRING (Florida, US), Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A toddler accidentally shot and killed a Florida woman who was on a Zoom call with her co-workers this week, after the child found an unsecured, loaded handgun, police said.…

Covid-19: About 1.75% of Africa’s population fully vaccinated – AU

Vaccine supplies to African countries has improved after stagnating for more than two months ADDIS ABABA, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Some 53 African countries have acquired about 114 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines so far, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said in the latest weekly…

Tanzania gemstone production up nine-fold in four years

A small-scale miner at work DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tanzania’s gemstones production increased nearly nine-fold in the last four years – and the government attributes the trend to a vastly improved mining environment.Gemstones production increased to 23,564.5 tonnes last year, from the 2,554.9 tonnes recorded in 2016.…

No new Marburg virus cases detected in Guinea – WHO

GENEVA, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organisation said that no further Marburg cases have been identified so far in Guinea but contacts of the fatal case were being monitored twice daily during the critical incubation period.West Africa’s first recorded case of the lethal virus, which is related to…