Tanzania, Uganda leaders agree to fast-track crude oil pipeline project

Tanzanian President John Magufuli and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni have signed an agreement for the construction of a 3.5 billion-U.S.-dollar crude oil pipeline DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 14 (NNN-Xinhua) — Tanzanian President John Magufuli and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni have signed an agreement for the construction of a…

Update: Greece sees end to Lesbos migrant crisis within a week

Asylum-seekers including the elderly and very young children have been sleeping rough on Lesbos island since Wednesday when some 11,000 fled the overcrowded Moria camp after it was gutted in apparent arson attacks LESBOS (Greece), Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Greece said it hoped thousands of asylum seekers left homeless by…

Covid-19: US cases surpass 6.5 mln – Johns Hopkins University

NEW YORK, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 6.5 million on Sunday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The US case count rose to 6,501,904, with the national death toll reaching 193,843 as…

Chinese-owned TikTok rejects US Microsoft buyout offer, Oracle sole remaining bidder

NEW YORK, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US tech giant Microsoft said its offer to buy TikTok was rejected, leaving Oracle as the sole remaining bidder ahead of a looming deadline for the Chinese-owned video app to sell or shut down its US operations. The Wall Street Journal and New York…

Social networks in Algeria blocked to prevent exam fraud

Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp were inaccessible in Algeria while the Internet faced disruptions across the country ALGIERS, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Algerians were unable to access social media accounts as students sat national exams in the North African country where authorities are cracking down on cheating.…

ICJ: US, Iran battle over sanctions at world court

THE HAGUE, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States and Iran face off at the UN’s top court on Monday in the latest round of a battle over sanctions on Tehran reimposed by President Donald Trump. Tehran dragged Washington to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in…

Groundhog Day as British MPs feud over Brexit

LONDON, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — It’ll be deja vu all over again as Britain’s parliament on Monday renews battle over Brexit, with influential MPs up in arms over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to blow up an EU treaty. The House of Commons will hold its first debate over a…

Covid-19: WHO reports record one-day increase in global cases, up over 307,000

GENEVA, Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe has amounted to 28,637,952, increasing by 307,930 in the past 24 hours, a record one-day increase, the World Health Organization reported. According to WHO data made public on Sunday, the number of fatalities grew by 5,537…

Greece: Fed-up Lesbos islanders, migrants stuck waiting for Europe to decide

Refugees and migrants from the destroyed Moria camp sleep on the side of a road, on the island of Lesbos LESBOS (Greece), Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Crisis-weary residents of the Greek island of Lesbos and the thousands of migrants stranded there after this week’s refugee centre fire are united by…

Covid-19: Libyan medics already faced war, now the pandemic is surging there too

Medical team wearing protective suits walk to a clinic in Misrata, Libya MISRATA (Libya), Sept 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) — As the pandemic started to rage through Libya, medics working in the war-ravaged country’s few functioning hospitals faced their nightmare scenario – a surge in cases and dwindling resources. Hamza Abdulrahman Jelwal,…