Peru’s Finance Ministry: Recovery takes shape day by day

LIMA, March 26 (NNN-ANDINA) — Economy and Finance Minister Jose Arista on Monday highlighted that Peru’s economic reactivation is taking shape with each passing day, after the good performance of private and public investment and expectations in the awarding of contracts worth US$8 billion this year for the construction and operation…

Senegal opposition candidate Faye set to win presidential election

Bassirou Diomaye Faye gestures after casting his ballot during Senegal’s presidential elections DAKAR, March 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Senegal’s opposition candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a political newcomer popular among the country’s disaffected youth, is set to be declared the next president after his main rival Amadou Ba conceded defeat. Provisional results after…

Mexico president says Trump border wall idea ‘doesn’t work’

WASHINGTON, March 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico’s president said in an interview that Republican Donald Trump’s mantra that the US-Mexico border should be walled off is a nonstarter, reiterating his view that only huge US foreign policy changes will stem illegal migration. Asked by CBS’s “60 Minutes” whether Trump, if elected…

Kremlin refuses to comment on IS links to Moscow attack

MOSCOW, March  26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Kremlin refused to comment Monday on the Daesh group’s claims that it was behind the deadliest attack in Russia in two decades, as rescuers searched for bodies amid the rubble of theburnt-out Moscow concert hall. Eleven people have been detained in connection with the…

UN Security Council observes moment of silence over Moscow attack

UNITED NATIONS, March 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN Security Council observed a minute of silence on Monday to mourn victims of an attack on a Moscow concert hall that left at least 137 people dead. The representative of Japan, the current president of the 15-nation body, asked all members to…

UN Security Council for first time demands Gaza ceasefire as US abstains

UNITED NATIONS, March 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — After more than five months of war, the UN Security Council for the first time Monday demanded an immediate ceasefire after the United States, Israel’s ally which vetoed previous drafts, abstained. Drawing unusual applause in the often staid Security Council, all 14 other members…

Presidential election kicks off in Senegal

DAKAR, March 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The first round of the Senegalese presidential election started on Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0800 GMT). According to statistics from the General Directorate of Elections, approximately 7.37 million voters, over 7 million domestically and the remainder abroad are expected to cast their ballots…

Update: Brazil rescuers save girl after storm kills at least 12

PETROPOLIS (Brazil), March 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Search teams in southeastern Brazil rescued a girl buried for more than 16 hours in the rubble of a collapsed house following a powerful storm that has claimed at least a dozen lives. Authorities have deployed teams to the mountainous areas of Rio de…

Hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian school students released

ABUJA, March 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The more than 250 school students seized by gunmen in a mass kidnapping in northwestern Nigeria earlier this month have been released, the local governor said on Sunday. The kidnapping in Kuriga, Kaduna state on March 7 was one of the biggest such attacks in years and prompted a…

Brazil: 5 criminals killed after failing to raid tax-collecting agency warehouse

BRASILIA, March 24 (NNN-XINHUA) — Five suspects died Saturday in a shootout with police as they attempted to assault a warehouse belonging to Federal Revenue Secretariat, Brazil’s official tax-collecting agency, in the southern Brazilian city of Cascavel, local authorities announced. The criminal group, which was traveling in five cars, was…