Europe at UN says Golan is not Israeli territory

UNITED NATIONS, March 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Five European countries that sit on the UN Security Council rejected US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize the Golan as Israeli territory and voiced concern the move could have broad consequences. Belgium, Britain, France, Germany and Poland insisted that the European position had…

Mali: Six die in revenge attacks as UN urges end to ‘spiral of violence’

238 BAMAKO, March 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Six people have been killed in attacks on villages of the Dogon ethnic community in central Mali, local officials and a security source said as the UN mission called for an end to the “spiral of violence” afflicting the region. The attacks followed a…

US Pres Trump tells Russia ‘to get out’ of Venezuela

WASHINGTON, March 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – US President Donald Trump demanded that Russia drop support for Venezuela’s Pres Nicolas Maduroafter Moscow deployed troops and equipment to bolster the hard-leftgovernment. “Russia has to get out,” Trump said at the White House alongside FabianaRosales, wife of opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has been…

DR Congo: Fourteen dead in mine collapse, nine seriously injured

BUKAVU (DR Congo), March 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Fourteen people were killed when a small-scale mine in a tin-rich area of eastern DRCongo collapsed, local officials said. The Tuesday incident happened in Niyabibwe, about 100 kilometres northof Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, they said. Miners had dug a shaft…

Ethiopian crash report likely to be released this week as Boeing briefs airlines

ADDIS ABABA, March 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A preliminary report on an Ethiopian Airlines crash will very likely be released this week, the country’s transport ministry said, as Boeing prepares to brief more airlines on software and training updates on the 737 MAX. The aviation industry and grieving families of victims…

Peru launches Hello Kitty tourism promotion campaign in Japan

TOKYO, March 26 (NNN-ANDINA) — The Exports and Tourism Promotion Board (PromPeru) —in a joint effort with Sanrio Company— has presented the Peruvian Hello Kitty campaign aimed at strengthening the positioning of the Inca country as a tourist destination for Japanese visitors. The launch took place at the Haneda International Airport which…

Gov’t works to learn fate of over 40,000 missing in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, March 26 (NNN-EFE) — The government said that it was reactivating the National Missing Persons Search System in an effort to learn the fate of the more than 40,000 people listed as missing in Mexico, identify the 26,000 unidentified bodies at morgues and clear the 1,300 clandestine graves…

Spain’s king, queen begin Argentina state visit with tribute to San Martin

BUENOS AIRES, March 26 (NNN-EFE) — Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia began their first state visit to Argentina on Monday with a message of total support from Spain for the economic reforms being carried out by President Mauricio Macri. After visiting the monument to the hero of Argentine…

Guyana appeal court overturns parliamentary vote of no confidence

Guyana’s parliament building GEORGETOWN, March 26 (NNN-CARIBBEANNEWS) — The Guyana court of appeal overturned the Dec 21, 2018, no confidence vote brought in Guyana’s National Assembly by opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo. The court of appeal judgment also reversed the Jan 31, 2019, ruling of Chief Justice Roxanne George, which upheld…

A third of Argentines living below the poverty line; in Greater Buenos Aires, 41.1%

BUENOS AIRES, March 26 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Almost a third of Argentines were living below the poverty line at the end of 2018, according to a new report from the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA). The latest report UCA’s Social Debt Observatory, which uses a multi-dimensional system of indicators to measure…