Plane carrying Brazilian soccer players crashes, killing six

RASILIA, Jan 25 (NNN-Xinhua) — Six people, including four soccer players and the president of the Brazilian club Palmas, were killed Sunday when the plane in which they were traveling crashed in the state of Tocantins. The Palmas club, which plays in the Brazilian Championship Serie D, reported in a…

Portugal: President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa re-elected – exit poll

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa LISBON, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Centre-right incumbent candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has won Portugal’s presidential election, according to an exit poll. The survey by the Portuguese Catholic University’s Polling Center for public broadcaster RTP on Sunday indicated that Rebelo de Sousa captured between 57-62 percent…

Covid-19: Mexico’s president says he’s tested positive for virus; mild condition

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador MEXICO CITY, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the symptoms are mild. Mexico’s president, who has been criticized for his handling of his country’s pandemic, said on his official Twitter account…

Covid-19: No Europe deaths directly tied to vaccinations – experts

PARIS, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Despite dozens of deaths of people shortly after they were vaccinated against coronavirus, scientists say the evidence available so far does not incriminate the new anti-Covid vaccines. Health agencies stress however that the vast majority of post-vaccination fatalities were elderly, already vulnerable and often sick.…

Rioting youths in Dutch village torch COVID-19 testing centre

AMSTERDAM, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Rioting youths protesting on the first night of a Dutch curfew torched a COVID-19 testing facility and threw fireworks at police in a Dutch fishing village. Police said Sunday they fined more than 3,600 people nationwide for breaching the curfew that ran from 9pm  local…

Nineteen charred bodies found in drug cartel-infested area near Mexico-US border

CIUDAD VICTORIA (Mexico), Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 19 charred corpses have been discovered in Mexico near the US border in an area where drug cartels often clash, the Tamaulipas state prosecutor’s office said. Police on Saturday found two burnt-out vehicles containing human remains on a country road near the…

Pirates kill sailor, kidnap 15 off Nigeria: report

ANKARA, Jan 24 (NNN-ANADOLU) — Armed pirates killed one sailor and abducted 15 from a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria on Saturday. That left three crew members to sail the Liberian-flagged Mozart owned by a Turkish company. The dead man was Azerbaijani. Turkish news channel NTV spoke…

COVID-19: Venezuela will send oxygen to Manaus every seven days

CARACAS, Jan 24 (NNN-TELESUR) — The Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza announced that his country will send oxygen tanks to the Brazilian city Manaus every week. “We are establishing an agreement so that 80,000 more kilos, five gondolas, can arrive every seven days in Manaus (Brazil),” Arreaza said during a…

Hundreds march in Tunisia as protests sharpen

Protesters chanted “the people want the fall of the regime” TUNIS, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of people marched in central Tunis against inequality and police brutality, in defiance of a ban on demonstrations and as security forces tried to block off the city’s main central avenue.Protesters chanted “the people…

Update: Chileans receive mistaken tsunami warning following Antarctic quake

SANTIAGO, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Saturday off the coast of Antarctica triggered a tsunami warning but panic ensued when a message to abandon coastal areas was sent to a large number of Chileans, some of whom experienced a separate, less dangerous temblor. The shallow Antarctic…