Uruguayan university opens center to foster China-LatAm trade

MONTEVIDEO, Aug 8 (NNN-EFE) — The University of Montevideo’s Business School on Wednesday launched a new China-Latin American Studies Center for Trade and Business that will seek, among other things, to be a “power plant of ideas” to improve relations between Latin America and the Asian giant. The center’s director,…

Protesters call for Malawi’s electoral commission to resign

LILONGWE, Aug 8 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Hundreds of protesters in Malawi’s Blantyre city blocked roads with burning tyres as they called for the country’s electoral body to resign following a presidential election they say was rigged. The protesters marched alongside various politicians, including former Vice President Saulos Chilima, who said the…

Tanzania: U.S. Supreme Court to hear Kenya, Tanzania 1998 embassy bombings case

WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Lawyers representing hundreds of Kenyan and Tanzanian victims of the 1998 embassy bombings are optimistic that the United States Supreme Court will rule to award a total of $4.3 billion (Ksh440 billion, Tsh9.8 trillion) to their clients. The top US court agreed in June to…

Eighteen migrants hurt trying to cross Bosnia-Croatia border – officials

SARAJEVO, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Eighteen migrants were injured while trying to illegally reach the European Union across Bosnia’s border with Croatia, Bosnian officials said. The migrants, all men from Pakistan and Iraq, were taken to a local hospital overnight by police, the officials said, declining to give further details.…

Mexico wants U.S. help to identify white supremacist threats

MEXICO CITY, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico’s government wants the United States to cooperate in helping to identify white supremacists that pose a threat to its citizens after a weekend shooting in El Paso, Texas that killed eight Mexican nationals. A total of 22 people lost their lives in the…

AfDB approves $98m grant for Ethiopia road project to Djibouti

ABIDJAN, Aug 8 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $98 million financial package for Ethiopia for a road transport corridor project to neighbouring Djibouti. The project’s total cost is $255 million, comprising an AfDB grant of $98 million to Ethiopia’s government and an AfDB grant of…

US: 4 dead, 2 wounded in Southern California stabbings

GARDEN GROVE (California, US), Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man killed four people and wounded two in a string of robberies and stabbings in California’s Orange County before he was arrested, police said. The 33-year-old Garden Grove man was taken into custody after he came out of a 7-Eleven store…

Venezuela denounces detaining of ship carrying food inputs

CARACAS, Aug 8 (NNN-Xinhua) — Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez denounced the detaining of a ship headed to Venezuela with primary materials for food production. The ship was stopped at the Panama Canal. “Venezuela is denouncing to the world that, right now, a ship carrying 25,000 tons of soybean meal…

Russia upholds bar on Kremlin critics despite protests

MOSCOW, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia’s main election board upheld rulings barring several Kremlin critics from a Moscow election next month as the opposition said it would press ahead with nationwide protests this weekend. Police in Moscow have detained more than 2,000 people at recent rallies protesting the exclusion of…

US immigration agents arrest 680 workers at Mississippi plants

MISSISSIPPI, Aug 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US immigration authorities arrested nearly 700 people at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi in what federal officials said could be the largest worksite enforcement operation in a single state. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a statement they detained about 680 people who…