Despite calls to peace, protests and repression continues in Chile

SANTIAGO, Nov 20 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — While President Sebastian Piñera called on all Chileans to build peace, police repression continued and was reinforced against mostly peaceful demonstrators. The number of seriously injured people continues to rise due to the excessive and indiscriminate use of ‘deterrent weapons’ by the special police…

Argentina prepares for new government

BUENOS AIRES, Nov 20 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Twenty-one days before their inauguration ceremony, Argentine President-elect Alberto Fernandez and Vice President-elect Cristina Fernandez are designing strategies for the future. There is much to do and the newly elected president has not stopped for a second. He traveled to Mexico, where he…

Foreign direct investment growing 7.8 percent in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Nov 20 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Foreign direct investment in Mexico grew 7.8 percent in the first nine months of this year, the Ministry of Economy reported, for a total of 26,055.6 billion dollars were raised. According to preliminary figures in the first nine months of the year, foreign…

Heavy lorry ‘probably caused France bridge deaths’

A 50-tonne lorry was driving over the bridge when it collapsed, prosecutors said PARIS, Nov 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A bridge collapse that killed two people in south-western France was apparently caused by a lorry that weighed too much, prosecutors say. Two vehicles plunged into the River Tarn, north of Toulouse,…

Update: Kenya’s former AG Amos Wako speaks out after US travel ban

Senator Amos Wako has denied any involvement in graft claims NAIROBI, Nov 20 (NNN-KBC) — Senator Amos Wako has denied any involvement in a corruption-related case during his 10-year tenure as Kenya’s Attorney General. This comes after the United States on Monday imposed sanctions on him, his wife and son,…

Cuba begins to withdraw doctors from Ecuador

HAVANA, Nov 20 (NNN-Xinhua) — The first of nearly 400 Cuban doctors assigned to Ecuador were pulled back Tuesday at the request of Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno. A plane carrying 174 doctors landed in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, home to some of the medical professionals, before flying…

Latvian medical workers call for health minister’s resignation, parliament dissolution

Latvian Health Trade Union to organize protest on Nov 28  RIGA, Nov 20 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Latvian Trade Union of Health and Social Care Employees (LVSADA) on Tuesday called for Health Minister Ilze Vinkele’s resignation and announced a plan to initiate the dissolution of the Baltic country’s parliament, public media…

Botswana vows to build capacity to counter wildlife poaching, trafficking: Pres Masisi

Pres Mokgweetsi Masisi GABORONE, Nov 20 (NNN-Xinhua) — Pres Mokgweetsi Masisi said Botswana will continue to build capacity to counter the growing threat of wildlife poaching and trafficking. A number of infrastructural developments and efforts are being put in place to ensure that the threat of wildlife poaching and trafficking…

South Africa: SAA operates despite strike

PRETORIA, Nov 20 (NNN-SANEWS) — South African Airways (SAA) is currently operating all its international and some of its regional flights and domestic services despite its workers downing tools over salary increases. These services are being carried out by sister airline Mango, Airlink and SA Express. On Tuesday, the airline…

Hitler birth house in Austria to become police station

The house where Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria, as photographed in 2012  VIENNA, Nov 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The house where Adolf Hitler was born will be turned into a police station, Austria’s interior ministry announced after years of legal wrangling as the government looks to prevent the building…