With security improving in DR Congo’s Kasai, thousands of refugees head home from Angola

Humanitarian workers provide food rations to refugee at the Lóvua settlement in Angola. GENEVA, Aug 25 (NNN-UNNS) — As security has improved in the restive Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), some 8,500 refugees have left the Lóvua settlement in Angola’s north-east Lunda Norte province in the…

Nearly 900 Mexican performers set world record for folk dance

GUADALAJARA (Mexico), Aug 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nearly 900 people twirled and stamped their feet to mariachi music in the Mexican city of Guadalajara to set a Guinness record for the world’s biggest folk dance. Searing heat failed to dampen the enthusiasm of the 882 men and women, who turned up…

Panama: Finding solutions to curb fishing of pregnant sharks

PANAMA CITY, Aug 25 (NNN-TELESUR) — Female scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) migrate to Panama’s Bay of Punta Chame to give birth, but are being fished by industrial trawlers in the area, putting the already endangered species a closer risk of extinction, according to a study by the nation’s Secretary of…

Venezuela: Major natural gas explosion act of sabotage

CARACAS, Aug 25 (NNN-TELESUR) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says an investigation will immediately begin regarding the explosion of a natural gas-filling plant located in Miranda State on Saturday evening that forced some 6,500 residents of Ocumare del Tuy to temporarily leave their homes.  Venezuela’s Minister of Popular Power of Oil…

French police fire tear gas at anti-G7 protesters

BIARRITZ, Aug 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — French police used tear gas and water cannon to break up anti-G7 protesters in the southern city of Bayonne on Saturday, as leaders from the world’s leading industrialised nations arrived for their summit just a few kilometres away in Biarritz. Since Monday, anti-capitalist activists, environmentalists…

Mexico dismantles suspected women trafficking network in resort city

MEXICO CITY, Aug 25 (NNN-Xinhua) — Mexican authorities dismantled a suspected network of cross-border women trafficking in a resort city, the Attorney General’s office said on Saturday. The possible international human trafficking network supplies prostitution via the Internet in Los Cabos, a municipality at the southern tip of Baja California…

Ukraine celebrates 28th anniversary of independence

KIEV, Aug 25 (NNN-Xinhua) — Tens of thousands of Ukrainians on Saturday gathered in central Kiev to celebrate the 28th anniversary of the country’s Independence Day. Started with national anthem performances, the celebrations also featured a speech by President Volodymyr Zelensky at the main square of Kiev, during which he…

Fifth meeting on Ghana/Togo maritime boundary negotiations opens in Accra

ACCRA, Aug 25 (NNN-GNA) — The fifth meeting on the Ghana/Togo Maritime Boundary Negotiations has opened in Accra with a call on both parties to work towards an amicable solution. ‘It is my fervent wish for both Parties to consider the fraternal relationship among our common people’s and the already existing…

Plane crash in Ecuador’s Amazon region kills four

QUITO, Aug 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Cessna 182 airplane crashed in Ecuador’s Amazon region, killing all four people aboard, authorities said Saturday. The plane was carrying a pilot and three passengers, the civil aviationauthority said. The cause of the crash was not immediately known but an investigation hasbeen launched. The…

Somalia: President replaces security chiefs, appoints new Mogadishu mayor

MOGADISHU, Aug 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Somalia’s president announced a major shake-up of the country’s security chiefs as well as a replacement for the mayor of Mogadishu after Abdirahman Omar Osman died of his wounds following a suicide bomb attack last month. Al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabaab, which aims to…