Social media fake news fans tension between India and Pakistan

NEW DELHI, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — With India and Pakistan standing on the brink of war this week, several false videos, pictures and messages circulated widely on social media, sparking anger and heightening tension in both countries. The video of an injured pilot from a recent Indian air show and…

Britain: Labour Party leader backs Brexit referendum

LONDON, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Britain’s opposition Labour Party will back a new referendum on Brexit after parliament defeated its alternative plan for leaving the European Union, its leader Jeremy Corbyn said. With 29 days left until the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union, both Prime Minister…

‘Sometimes you have to walk’: US Pres Trump scraps North Korea summit deal

PRESIDENTS KIM JONG-UN AND DONALD TRUMP HANOI, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he had walked away from a nuclear deal at his summit with Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on Thursday because of unacceptable demands from the North Korean leader to lift punishing U.S.-led sanctions. Trump…

DR Congo: Ebola centre set on fire after armed attack

GOMA (DR Congo), March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Armed assailants attacked an Ebola treatment centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, setting off a fire and becoming embroiled in an extended gunbattle with security forces, health officials said. The identity and motive of the assailants were unclear. Aid workers have faced…

Israel rejects ‘biased’ UN probe into its response to Gaza unrest – FM Katz

JERUSALEM, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Israel rejected the findings of a UNprobe released Thursday into its soldiers’ response to Gaza unrest that began in March last year, calling it “hostile, deceitful and biased.” “Israel rejects the report outright,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz said ina statement after the probe alleged soldiers…

India-Pakistan tensions: India will stand like a rock against ‘enemy attack’ – PM Modi

NEW DELHI, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indians Thursday to “stand as a wall” with anger boiling over Pakistan’s capture of a pilot as a crisis escalates between the nuclear-armed rivals. In his first remarks since India and Pakistan both claimed to have shot down each…

Pakistan will release Indian pilot Friday as ‘peace gesture’: PM Imran Khan

ISLAMABAD, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Pakistan will release a captured Indian pilot on Friday, Prime Minister Imran Khan told a joint session of parliament Thursday, in an overture towards New Delhi after soaring tensions fuelled fears of conflict between the nuclear-armed rivals. “As a peace gesture we are releasing the…

India-Pakistan tensions ground thousands of air travellers

LONDON, March 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Thousands of air travellers worldwide were left stranded after Pakistan closed its airspace in response to escalating tensions with India. Pakistan’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it would keep airspace shutuntil 11.59pm local time (1859 GMT), disrupting major routes between Europe and South East Asia.…

17 killed in Mali by booby-trapped corpse: Security sources

BAMAKO, Feb 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Seventeen civilians were killed and 15 were wounded in a blast caused by a booby-trapped corpse in central Mali, a local official said. The incident occurred on Tuesday in Diankabou, a small town about 150 kilometres east of the city of Mopti, the official said.…

Colombia: Rampaging fire in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta

BOGOTA, Feb 28 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — More than 800 hectares of forest in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, 3,500 meters above sea level, were consumed by a fire, Colombian authorities reported. The disaster would have devastated the homes of the indigenous populations living in the area, belonging to the…