US: Three killed in military helicopter crash near southern border

 HOUSTON (Texas, US), March 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two soldiers and a US border agent died in a helicopter crash near the US-Mexico border, the US military said. “A UH-72 Lakota helicopter assigned to the federal Southwest border support mission crashed on Friday… while conducting aviation operations near Rio Grande City,…

Nigeria sends troops to rescue more than 250 kidnapped students

KANO (Nigeria), March 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu sent troops to rescue more than 250 pupils kidnapped by gunmen from a school in the country’s northwest in one of the largest mass abductions in three years. The Kaduna state attack was the second mass kidnapping in a…

UK’s HMS Trent seized £290.66m of cocaine in two huge blows to drug runners in the Caribbean

US VIRGIN ISLAND (Caribbean), March 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — A British Royal Navy warship seized £290.66m of cocaine and narcotics in two huge blows to drug runners in the Caribbean. British sailors, Royal Marines and a US Coast Guard team on HMS Trent intercepted a suspected smuggling speedboat south of the…

Tanzania promises to back BACKUP health programme

DAR ES SALAAM, March 8 (NNN-DAILYNEWS) — Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary, Dr John Jingu has reaffirmed Tanzania’s commitment to continuing collaborating with development partners to ensure access to quality healthcare services for citizens across the country. Speaking during the closing ceremony of the BACKUP Health programme in Dar es…

Paraguay: Outbreak of chickenpox among children

Asuncion, March 8 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The isolation of 44 children in a Paraguayan school after a case of chickenpox was detected among them coincided with a vaccination campaign against the disease that began a few days ago, the newspaper Última Hora reported. The classmates of the infant who tested…

Ireland votes to update constitution on women, family

DUBLIN, March 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ireland begins voting in a double referendum Friday on proposals to modernise constitutional references to the make-up of a family and women’s role in the home. All the major political parties support a “Yes-Yes” vote, and until recently polls predicted a smooth passage for both…

Sudan voices commitment to coordinating with UN to ensure aid delivery

KHARTOUM, March 8 (NNN-XINHUA) — Sudan voiced commitment to continuing coordination with the United Nations (UN) to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid to those affected by the ongoing war, said Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council in a statement. The statement came after Sudan’s Joint National Committee for Humanitarian Emergencies held…

Update Canada mass murder: 19-year-old charged with killing 6 people in Ottawa

Febrio De-Zoysa, 19, is facing six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder OTTAWA, March 8 (NNN-XINHUA) — A 19-year-old student is charged with killing six people including four children, with the youngest less than three months old, inside a townhouse in the suburb of Ottawa, the…

Venezuela invites international observers to July presidential elections

Elvis Hidrobo Amoroso CARACAS, March 8 (NNN-XINHUA) — Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) has invited various international organizations to participate as observers in the upcoming presidential elections on July 28, CNE president Elvis Amoroso said. Among those organizations are the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the BRICS,…

Senegal President Macky Sall announces March 24 election

President of Senegal Macky Sall DAKAR, March 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Senegal’s government has announced that the country’s presidential election will take place on March 24.The announcement follows tension in the West African nation after President Macky Sall postponed the election last month, sparking widespread protests.Parliament has also passed an amnesty…