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…

Brazil seeks US$1 billion in foreign aid to curb Amazon deforestation: Environmental minister

SAO PAULO, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil’s environment minister wants US$1 billion in foreign aid from countries including the United States to help reduce deforestation in the Amazon between 30 per cent and 40 per cent. “The plan is US$1 billion over 12 months,” the minister, Ricardo Salles, told the newspaper…

UK arrests over 100 in protests against policing Bill

LONDON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — British police said that 107 people were arrested in London during demonstrations against government plans to increase police powers. Thousands marched in towns and cities across the country on Saturday to protest the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, defying coronavirus restrictions. Police said the…

Venezuela to ask UN for help in clearing land mines near Colombian border

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro CARACAS, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela will ask the United Nations to help remove landmines in its territory that it says have been deployed by “irregular” armed groups near the Colombian border, President Nicolas Maduro said. Maduro’s government on Thursday said two soldiers were killed by…

US shuts once-secret Guantanamo prison unit, moves prisoners

U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, also known as “Gitmo” WASHINGTON, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A once-secret unit within the Guantanamo Bay detention centre that had fallen into disrepair has been closed and the prisoners moved to another facility on the American base in Cuba, the US military said. The prisoners at…

Covid-19: Colombian president announces new restrictive measures to slow spread of pandemic

BOGOTA, April 5 (NNN-Xinhua) — Colombian President Ivan Duque announced new restrictive measures for several Colombian cities where the number of COVID-19 cases are on the rise and the occupancy of intensive care units (ICUs) is over 70 percent. “The national government, headed by the Ministries of Health and the…

Covid-19: 1st shipment of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine arrives in Libya’s Tripoli

TRIPOLI, April 5 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Libyan Minister of Health Ali Zanati announced that a shipment of 101,250 dozes of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, provided by the United Arab Emirates, arrived in Libyan capital Tripoli. Experts supervised the distribution of the vaccine to special medicine cooling stores across the…