Update: Death toll from Myanmar jade mine landslide rises to 113
Rescuers attempting to locate survivors after a landslide at a jade mine in Hpakant, Kachin state YANGON, July 2 (NNN-AGENCIES)…
Cuba partially reopens borders to international tourists
HAVANA, July 2 (NNN-Xinhua) — Cuba partially reopened its borders to international tourists in keeping with measures adopted by the…
At least 50 dead in Myanmar jade mine landslide
Jade miners take photos at the mud pond where more than 50 people were killed in collapse, in Hpakant, Kachin, …
Greece reopens islands to flights in bid to save tourism season
A woman gazes across the view of the town of Fyra in the island of Santorini CORFU (Greece), July 2…
US Sec of State Pompeo urges Turkey not to convert Hagia Sophia into mosque
Hagia Sophia or Ayasofya, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, that was a Byzantine cathedral before being converted into a mosque…
US unrest: Pres Trump administration sends out teams to guard monuments on July 4 weekend
Boston officials have voted to remove ‘The Emancipation Group’ statue depicting Abraham Lincoln and an enslaved Black man from a…
Covid-19: ‘We are not guinea pigs,’ say South African anti-vaccine protesters
Protesters attend a demonstration against the COVID-19 vaccine testing on Africans JOHANNESBURG, June 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Anti-vaccine protesters took to…
More than 100 Colombian soldiers implicated in sex abuse of minors, army says
Demonstrators wearing face masks protest in front of a military battalion, against the reported rape of an Embera Chami indigenous…
Uruguay’s foreign minister Talvi resigns
MONTEVIDEO, July 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Ernesto Talvi, who shot to international prominence when he oversaw the repatriation…
Brazilian Amazon sees worst June in 13 years for forest fires
A part of the Amazon rainforest burns near a highway in Brazil’s Para state last September BRASILIA, July 2 (NNN-AGENCIES)…