US shooting: 1 dead, 4 injured in shooting at Minnesota health clinic; local man arrested

BUFFALO (Minnesota, US), Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Authorities say one person is dead and four others are wounded in a shooting at a Minnesota health clinic. A 67-year-old local man said to have been angry with the care he received was arrested. The five people were taken to hospitals after Tuesday’s attack…

Covid-19: Doctors on strike in Bolivia to force lockdown

Santa Cruz is the worst hit region in Bolivia LA PAZ, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Health care workers in Bolivia’s region worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic began a 48-hour strike on Tuesday to demand a lockdown to battle the rise in infections. Emergency services and hospitals attending COVID-19 patients are…

US Senate votes to proceed with impeachment trial of former President Trump

Billboard trucks parked on the National Mall near of the US Capitol during the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in Washington WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (NNN-Xinhua) — US Senate voted to proceed with the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. The Senate voted 56-44 that the impeachment…

Covid-19: European Commission to defend vaccine plan as virus forces more curbs

BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The European Commission chief prepared to defend its stumbling vaccine rollout before the EU parliament on Wednesday as the pandemic’s grip on the continent forced Greece into tightening a lockdown around its capital. Europe has logged a third of the more than 2.3 million lives…

Covid-19: Brazilian companies launch plan to speed up vaccination

BRASILIA, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian businesses and non-profit groups announced a plan to help speed up the government’s troubled Covid-19 immunization drive, with the goal of vaccinating the entire country by September. The “United for the Vaccine” initiative aims to tap the logistical expertise of the private sector to…

Oil-rich Libya in poverty after decade of conflict

TRIPOLI, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Libya has Africa’s largest proven oil reserves and only seven million people, but a decade of bloody conflict has left its economy shattered and its population mired in poverty. The dinar has crashed and consumer prices have surged, power outages and fuel shortages are common,…

Haiti president acts to oust judges in power struggle

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise tried to force out three judges who were proposed as potential interim national leader to replace him in the latest twist of the country’s political crisis. Moise says his term in office lasts until February 2022 — but the opposition argues…

Covid-19: Peru gives first vaccines, Argentina approves Indian jab

LIMA, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Peru began its coronavirus immunization program just two days after receiving 300,000 vaccine doses from state-owned Chinese company Sinopharm. The country has been hard hit by a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping Latin America. It has recorded around 1.2 million cases and more…

Rebel leader appointed Finance Minister in Sudan Prime Minister’s new government

Sudan PM, Abdalla Hamdok KHARTOUM, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok appointed Darfur rebel leader Gibril Ibrahim as finance minister in a cabinet reshuffle on Monday.Hamdok announced his new cabinet, which includes ministers from the Sudan Revolutionary Front, an alliance of armed groups, in a televised news…

Congo urges calm after latest Ebola case

A team of epidemiologists have been dispatched to investigate the latest death KINSHASA, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — DR Congo announced a “resurgence” of Ebola in its troubled east after a woman died of the disease, just three months after authorities declared the end of the country’s latest outbreak.The World Health…