Covid-19: US will rapidly deploy additional support to India to fight surge – Blinken

Washington, Apr 26 (NNN-PTI) — The US will rapidly deploy additional support to India to combat the massive surge in coronavirus infections in the country, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced. Blinken’s statement came as pressure mounted on the Biden administration to ship excess COVID-19 vaccines along with several…

Morocco summons Spain envoy over Polisario leader

RABAT, April 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Morocco summoned the Spanish ambassador in “exasperation” after the leader of the Western Saharan independence movement was allowed into Spain for medical care. The Spanish foreign ministry said Thursday that Brahim Ghali, who heads the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, is being treated for Covid-19 and had…

Armenia PM resigns ahead of snap polls

YEREVAN, April 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Sunday announced his resignation while retaining interim duties, formalising a parliamentary vote to be held June 20 in an effort to defuse a political crisis sparked by last year’s war with Azerbaijan. “I am resigning from my post as…

Hundreds of migrants stranded in Honduras resume journey towards United States

Francisco, 34, an asylum seeking migrant from Honduras, cradles his 9-month-old daughter Megan from the early morning cold and wind TEGUCIGALPA, April 24 (NNN-Xinhua) — Hundreds of migrants who had been stranded in Honduras, including at least 500 Haitians, have set out on their way to the United States, local…

US shooting: LA police killed man wearing body armor in Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, April 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Los Angeles police said officers shot dead a driver wearing body armor who had reversed into a patrol car in Hollywood. The officers were responding to a call when a car pulled in front of them on Sunset Boulevard, hit the brakes and backed…

Chad: African Union demands end of military rule

ADDIS ABABA, April 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council demanded an urgent transition to a civilian government in Chad, after announcements that the interim Military Council established this week plans to stay in power at least until the end of 2022. Army general Mahamat Idriss…

Cuba to present UN resolution to end the US blockade on June 23

HAVANA, April 25 (NNN-TELESUR) — Cuba’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, said that next June 23 the United Nations General Assembly will consider the resolution to put an end to the US blockade against the island. Rodríguez Parrilla stressed that the blockade is an act of genocide that constitutes…

Covid-19: City of Buenos Aires bans all non-urgent surgical procedures to free up hospitals for covid patients

BUENOS AIRES, April 25 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Buenos Aires City Mayor Horacio Rodríguez Larreta ordered all health care facilities regardless of whether public or private to cancel every non-urgent surgical procedure or treatment scheduled for the coming days to make room for the increasing number of covid-19 patients who need hospitalization,…

Argentine Transport Minister Meoni dies in car crash aged 56

BUENOS AIRES, April 25 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Argentina’s Transport Minister Mario Meoni died in a car crash en route to his hometown of Junín in the province of Buenos Aires, it was reported. Meoni, a former mayor of Junín, was at the wheel of a Ministry’s Ford Mondeo car which overturned…

Covid-19: Five arrests and police injured at anti-lockdown protests in London

LONDON, April 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police in London said they arrested five people, and eight officers were injured, after disorder at large-scale protests against England’s remaining coronavirus restrictions, the mandatory use of masks and possible introduction of so-called vaccine passports. Demonstrators had gathered early Saturday afternoon and marched along several…