Cuba develops strategy to stop dengue-spreading mosquitoes

HAVANA, Aug 24 (NNN-XINHUA) — Cuban scientists are developing a strategy against dengue-spreading mosquitoes, including bacteria injection to curb its reproduction, local media reported. The Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes carry dengue, chikungunya and Zika, diseases that have become public health hazards in many parts of Latin America. Inoculating the mosquito with the wolbachia bacteria interferes with…

Chile Offers Support To Battle Forest Fires In Brazilian Amazon

SANTIAGO, Aug 24 (NNN-XINHUA) — The Chilean government offered support to Brazil to help battle the forest fires in the Amazon. “We have the experience, we have very good technicians, professionals and forest guards, and we have to be very supportive with a country that is going through a bad moment,” Chilean Minister of Agriculture…

Nigerian Governor Suggests Re-Evaluation Of Security Architecture

ABUJA, Aug 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The governor of restive Nigeria’s northeast state of Borno Babagana Zulum stressed on the need to re-evaluate the nation’s security architecture in order to make it more efficient and effective. The governor, who was in Abuja to brief Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on recent Boko Haram attacks on villages in…

Indeci: No major forest fire reported in Peru

LIMA, Aug 24 (NNN-ANDINA) — No major forest fire has been reported across the country so far, Peru’s National Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) has affirmed. However, Indeci said that 128 fires have been reported nationwide from July 27 to date, the majority of these fires have been caused by human activities. In…

Peru: President confident Congress will approve early general elections proposal

SATIPO (Junin region, Peru), Aug 24 (NNN-ANDINA) — Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra is confident Parliament will approve the early general elections by 2020 proposal and informed he will hold a first meeting with Congress Chairman Pedro Olaechea on Aug 26, within the framework of the Justice System Reform Council. In this sense,…

Brazil: Pres Bolsonaro says France’s Pres Macron has ‘colonialist mentality’ over Amazon fires

Fire smolders in an area of the Amazon rainforest RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazilian President JairBolsonaro blasted his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron as having a“colonialist mentality” for rallying G-7 countries to address wildfiresraging in the Amazon rainforest. “The French president’s suggestion that Amazon issues be discussed at…

France watching Kashmir rights, Pres Macron tells visiting Indian PM Modi

CHANTILLY (France), Aug 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — France’s Emmanuel Macron had a “frank” exchange with India’s Narendra Modi about tensions in divided Kashmir, telling him Paris would remain attentive to the rights of people living both sides of the ceasefire line. As tensions soared in the flashpoint region, the French president…

Indonesia: 22 missing after ferry fire

JAKARTA, Aug 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nearly two dozen people are missing from a ferry that went up in flames off Indonesia’s Java island, a port official said Friday. The boat was en route from Indonesia’s second-biggest city Surabaya to Balikpapan on Borneo island with some 277 people aboard when it…

17 die in road crash in central Nigeria: official

LAGOS, Aug 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Seventeen people were killed when a passenger bus collided with an oncoming truck in central Nigeria, a road safety official said. The accident involving an 18-passenger Toyota bus and a truck transporting a container happened in Kwara state on Thursday, said Udeme Eshiet of the…

Russia launches floating nuclear reactor in Arctic

MOSCOW, Aug 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia launched the world’s first floating nuclear reactor, sending it on an epic journey across the Arctic on Friday. Loaded with nuclear fuel, the Akademik Lomonosov left the Arctic port of Murmansk to begin its 5,000 kilometre voyage to Pevek in northeastern Siberia. Nuclear agency…