Peru President: 60 bridges to be built in northern Peru

TAMBO GRAANDE (Piura region, Peru), March 3 (NNN-ANDINA) — President Martin Vizcarra said 60 bridges will be built between Piura and Tumbes regions to improve connectivity in northern Peru, especially during the rainy season. He recalled that 18 bridges began construction stage in 2018. This year a second group of…

US slaps new sanctions on Venezuela regime as Russia ups support

WASHINGTON, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) – The United States and Russia clashed over how to assist crisis-wracked Venezuela, with Moscow pledging new relief channeled through President Nicolas Maduro and Washington slapping sanctions over the blocking of US aid it tried to push through the border. A day after Russia and China…

Brazil: Pres Bolsonaro to visit US, Chile, Israel to shore alliances

BRASILIA, March 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonarowill pay his first official visits to the United States, Chile and Israelthis month, in a clear sign of the alliances he wants toshore up, official said. Bolsonaro, who took office on Jan 1, will be in theUnited States on March 18-22…

Gun battle rages between Al Shabaab and Somali troops after hotel attack

Scene where a suicide car bomb exploded targeting a Mogadishu hotel in a business center in Maka Al Mukaram street Feb 28 (file pix). MOGADISHU, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A gun battle raged in Mogadishu on Friday between Somali soldiers and Al Shabaab fighters, holed up in a building next…

Heavy rain blocks several roads in Palestine, floods reported

RAMALLAH, March 1 (NNN-WAFA) – Two days of heavy rain blocked several main roads in Palestine as a result of flooding and caused serious damage to property, according to the Palestinian civil defense department. Main roads between Ramallah and Jerusalem were closed as well as roads in the north, south,…

Arab League welcomes UN report accusing Israel of war crimes against Palestinians

CAIRO, March 1 (NNN-WAFA) – The Arab League (AL) welcomed the results of a United Nations’ report that Israeli forces may have committed war crimes over the killing of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories. AL Assistant Secretary General for Palestine and occupied Arab territories, Saeed Abu Ali, said the…

Pakistan: FM Qureshi says he wont attend OIC over its failure to rescind invitation to Swaraj

ISLAMABAD, March 1 (NNN-PTI) — Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday announced that he will not attend a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) being hosted by the United Arab Emirates over the grouping’s failure to rescind the invitation to his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj.  Swaraj has been…

Iran: 8 killed in bus accident near Tehran

TEHRAN, March 1 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least eight people were killed in a passenger bus accident near Iran’s capital Tehran on Friday morning, Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported. The accident happened as the bus, moving from Iran’s central Kerman city, turned over on Tehran-Qom highway, according to the report.…

Namibian president urges Germany to apologize for 1904-1908 genocide

WINDHOEK, March 1 (NNN-Xinhua) — Namibian president Hage Geingob said his country expect Germany to issue an apology acceptable to the Namibian people for the role it played in the genocide between 1904 to 1908 when the African country was under German colonial rule. Speaking on the return of the…

Hundreds of Syrian refugees return from Lebanon

Syrian refugees take a coach bus heading to Syria in Beirut, Lebanon, DAMASCUS, March 1 (NNN-Xinhua) — Hundreds of Syrian refugees returned from Lebanon to Syria on Thursday, state news agency SANA reported. A total of 22 buses transported the Syrian refugees into Syria and delivered them to their hometowns…