Parliamentary election kicks off in Mauritius

PORT LOUIS, Nov 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Parliamentary election kicks off in Mauritius on Thursday to elect 70 members of the country’s unicameral parliament. Voters will elect directly 62 members of the national assembly while the 8 additional “best loser” will be appointed to fulfill the 70 seats of the national…

ICC judges sentence Congolese warlord Ntaganda to 30 years in prison

Bosco Ntaganda enters the ICC courtroom to hear the sentence in his trial in The Hague, Netherlands THE HAGUE, Nov 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda to 30 years in prison for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers. Ntaganda, 46,…

Libya migrant attack: UN investigators suspect foreign jet bombed centre

 TRIPOLI, Nov 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A deadly missile strike on a migrant detention centre in Libya was carried out by a fighter plane from a foreign country, according to a UN investigation. No country is named but a source with knowledge of the inquiry said it was focused on the United Arab Emirates.…

UN chief condemns live fire at Iraqi protesters as ‘disturbing’

BAGHDAD, Nov 8 (BSS/AFP) – The United Nations chief Antonio Guterresdenounced as “disturbing” reports that Iraqi security forces have fired liveammunition at anti-government protesters in Baghdad, as mass ralliescontinued to rock the capital and southern Iraq. The demonstrations broke out on Oct 1 in anger over corruption andunemployment but have…

Turkish Pres Erdogan, US Pres Trump announce Washington talks on Nov 13

ISTANBUL, Nov 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) –– Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan will travel to the United States next week to meet Donald Trump, the Turkish presidency said, amid heightened tensions between the two countries. In a telephone conversation, “the two leaders reconfirmed that they will meet in Washington on Wednesday, November 13,…

Iran’s treatment of nuclear inspector ‘not acceptable’: IAEA

VIENNA, Nov 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN’s nuclear watchdog said that one of its inspectors in Iran was briefly prevented from leaving the country last week, calling her treatment “not acceptable”. The Acting Director General of the International Atomic Energy (IAEA), Cornel Feruta, “today informed the IAEA Board of Governors…

All 39 victims found dead in UK truck were Vietnamese: police

LONDON, Nov 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — All 39 bodies found in a refrigeratedtruck outside London last month have now been identified as citizens ofVietnam, British police and Vietnamese officials said. The Vietnamese embassy in London said it was “in deep sorrow” over theconfirmation that the 31 men and eight women discovered…

Bangladesh ready to repatriate Rohingyas but Myanmar fails: FM Momen

DHAKA, NOV 8 (NNN-BSS) – Foreign Minister Dr A K Abdul Momen said Bangladesh is ready to repatriate forcibly displaced Rohingyas but Myanmar has failed to create conducive atmosphere to take back their nationals. “I request our international partners and community to put more pressure on Myanmar and use leverage…

At least 10 dead in northeast Guinea gold mine collapse

CONAKRY, Nov 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 10 people were killed and others were missing after an illegal gold mine collapsed in northeastern Guinea, local officials and the Red Cross said. Accidents in clandestine mines are common in Guinea, which has reserves of gold, diamonds, bauxite, and iron ore. “At…

Somali woman ‘beats’ internet trolls to win in US municipal polls

MAINE (US), Nov 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The second-largest city in Maine, home to thousands of African newcomers, has elected a Somali American to its city council. Safiya Khalid, 23, soundly defeated a fellow Democrat for a seat on the Lewiston City Council in a campaign that was marred in the…