Covid-19: Portugal extends restrictions on Spanish border until Apr 15

Portuguese police officers check a car at the border between Portugal and Spain LISBON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Portugal extended restrictions on travel via land and sea to Spain that had been due to end this weekend until Apr 15 as it works to contain the spread of COVID-19. The two…

Covid-19: China to donate 150,000 Sinovac vaccine doses to El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said that China will donate 150,000 Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Central American nation, on top of the 2 million Sinovac jabs his government already purchased. “I received a letter from President Xi Jinping, where he informs me…

DR Congo hosts ‘last chance’ talks over contested Nile dam

KINSHASA, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Foreign ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan held talks in Kinshasa on Sunday over Addis Ababa’s contested giant dam on the Nile, seen as vital by Ethiopia and a threat by downstream Egypt and Sudan. “These negotiations represent the last chance that the three countries…

UK to announce new international travel rules

LONDON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Britain will on Monday set out plans torestart international travel, using a “traffic-light” system as the countrycautiously emerges from lockdown. The announcement comes as the UK has set a tentative date of May 17 torelaunch international travel. Travel destinations will be ranked green, amber or…

UN calls for joint efforts to eliminate threat of explosive hazards in Somalia

MOGADISHU, April 5 (NNN-Xinhua) — The UN called for joint efforts to eradicate threats posed by the increasing use of explosive hazards in Somalia. Qurat-ul-Ain Sadozai, UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) program director in Somalia said the major impact of explosive hazards is on civilians and particularly on children. “Together,…

US: Florida homes evacuated as wastewater leak risks ‘catastrophic’ flood

MIAMI, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Emergency crews in central Florida were working to prevent an environmental catastrophe at a leaking reservoir that risked sending millions of gallons of contaminated wastewater toward nearby homes and into the Tampa Bay. More than 300 homes near the site of an abandoned phosphate mine…

Funeral held for Salvadoran killed by Mexican police

SAN SALVADOR, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Salvadoran woman who died at the hands of Mexican police was buried in the southwest of El Salvador, in the presence of family and close friends. The coffin of Victoria Salazar was driven in a white car from a funeral home in Sonsonate,…

EU has ‘severe concern’ over Russian activity near Ukraine

BRUSSELS, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — European Union foreign policy chiefJosep Borrell pledged the bloc’s “unwavering” support for Kiev ashe expressed major worries over Russian troop movements around Ukraine. “Following with severe concern the Russian military activity surroundingUkraine,” Borrell tweeted after a Sunday phone call with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.…

EU’s Michel vows support to Libya’s interim government

Libya’s interim prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah (right) meets with European Council President Charles Michel TRIPOLI, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — European Council President Charles Michel offered support to Libya on a Sunday visit to Tripoli, as the North African nation seeks to end a decade of chaos following a NATO-backed 2011…

Kosovo parliament elects Vjosa Osmani as new national president

The newly elected Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani PRISTINA, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kosovo’s parliament has appointed a 38-year-old U.S.-educated female law professor and candidate of the ruling Vetevendosje party as the country’s new president, following an election in February. Vjosa Osmani took over as acting president of Kosovo last November…