Victory in sight for Trump, but Biden signals confidence

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (NNN-EFE) — Democratic challenger Joe Biden led Republican incumbent Donald Trump 237-213 in Electoral College votes based on media projections of the outcomes in most of the 50 states in the US presidential election, but the president was ahead in Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania,…

Peru’s congress approves motion for an impeachment to remove president Vizcarra

LIMA, Nov 4 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Peru’s Congress approved a motion to initiate a process to remove President Martín Vizcarra from office over corruption allegations, a month and a half after he survived a prior impeachment trial. Lawmakers approved the measure in a 60-40 vote with 18 abstentions. Vizcarra is set…

Afghanistan: Gun battle kills 6 including 2 policemen in northern province

KUNDUZ (Afghanistan), Nov 4 (NNN-Xinhua) — Two policemen and four Taliban militants have been confirmed dead as clashes erupted in Chardara district of Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province on Wednesday, district governor Hafizullah Safi said. “A group of Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in Nahr-e-Sufi area early this morning and…

US shooting: 4 killed, 1 wounded in shooting in Nevada

LOS ANGELES, Nov 4 (NNN-Xinhua) — Four people were dead and one was wounded in a shooting involving police on Tuesday morning in Henderson, a city in the U.S. state of Nevada. According to local newspaper Las Vegas Review-Journal, police received a 911 call about 11 a.m. local time (1900…

Typhoon Molave leaves 39 dead, 44 missing in Vietnam

HANOI, Nov 4 (NNN-Xinhua) – Typhoon Molave has left 39 people dead and 44 others missing in Vietnam’s central and central highlands regions, the country’s Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control said. The fatalities, up from 36 reported on Tuesday, were recorded in Quang Nam, Nghe An,…

Qatar emir sets first national election for next October

DOHA, Nov 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Qatar’s ruler said that a long delayed vote for the country’s policy reviewing chamber will be held in October 2021, marking the Gulf emirate’s first national election. The currently un-elected Shura Council advises the absolute ruler, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, on draft laws…

Death toll from Kabul University attack rises to at least 35

Afghan journalists film inside a class after Monday’s attack at the university of Kabul KABUL, Nov 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll from Monday’s attack on Kabul University has risen to at least 35, most of them students, two government sources said. The sources said around 50 people had been wounded…

French police arrest man armed with machete in Paris

French police patrol in Montmartre, Paris as France raised security alert to the highest level after the knife attack in the city of Nice PARIS, Nov 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man who walked around the Pere Lachaise area of central Paris armed with a machete has been arrested in his…

Philippine island left without power after deadly typhoon: Red Cross

Toppled electrical post and trees lay along side a road after Typhoon Goni passes by Bato, Catanduanes province, eastern Philippines MANILA, Nov 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) –: It could take months to restore power to a Philippine island of 260,000 people devastated by the country’s most powerful typhoon this year, the Red Cross…

President Lopez Obrador urges review of US drug cooperation in Mexico

Mexico’s then Defense Minister General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda  MEXICO CITY, Nov 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said his government would review cooperation over drug policy with the United States and how its agencies operate in Mexico after the recent US arrest of a top military official. Lopez…