Guatemala AG refuses to resign after campaign against new president, refuses to meet the president

GUATEMALA CITY, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Guatemala’s attorney general, accused by new President Bernardo Arevalo of involvement in a plot to undo his election, snubbed a meeting with the head of state Wednesday and said she refused to resign. Consuelo Porras along with senior prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche and Judge Fredy…

Mali gold mine collapse kills more than 70

BAMAKO, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than 70 people have been killed after a tunnel collapsed at a Malian gold mining site last week, local sources said, the latest disaster in a region prone to mining accidents. Mali, which is among the world’s poorest countries, is one of Africa’s leading…

US: Alabama to carry out first nitrogen gas execution; UN objected says it “cruel, inhuman”

WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A convicted murderer is scheduled to be executed in the southern US state of Alabama this week using nitrogen gas, a novel method that the United Nations has likened to “torture.” Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, has been on death row for more than three decades…

Six sentenced to death for 2021 Ghana coup plot

ACCRA, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A Ghana court sentenced six people to death by hanging, including three soldiers, for their involvement in an alleged plot three years ago to overthrow the country’s government. The men were arrested in 2021 while testing weapons at an old shooting range in Accra, and…

Israel-Gaza conflict: Italy to treat 100 wounded Palestinian children

ROME, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — One hundred Palestinian children wounded in war-torn Gaza are to receive medical treatment in Italian hospitals, the defence ministry in Rome said. The healthcare system has almost entirely collapsed in Gaza after more than three months of devastating Israeli bombardment and fighting in the besieged…

Hungarian PM to urge parliament to ratify Sweden’s NATO accession

Viktor Orbán BUDAPEST, Jan 25 (NNN-XINHUA) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pledged to urge his country’s National Assembly to ratify Sweden’s NATO accession. “Just finished a phone call with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. I reaffirmed that the Hungarian government supports the NATO membership of Sweden. I also stressed…

Remains of over 100 victims of genocide in Rwanda retrieved from mass graves

KIGALI, Jan 25 (NNN-XINHUA) — The remains of nearly 120 victims of the 1994 genocide against Tutsi have been retrieved from mass graves in a village in southern Rwanda’s Huye District, roughly 30 years after the genocide, an official of the association of genocide survivors group (IBUKA) said. Over the…

Venezuela: 33 expelled from armed forces for anti-government plot

CARACAS, Jan 25 (NNN-XINHUA) — Up to 33 soldiers and high-ranking officers have been expelled from Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) for plotting against the government, the Defense Ministry said. They are “involved in conspiracies by planning criminal and terrorist actions to attack the legitimately constituted system of government,”…

Pres Díaz-Canel: “Cuba can move forward and grow”

HAVANA, Jan 25 (NNN-ACN) — Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez is paying his ninth visit to the province of Pinar del Río to check the progress of today’s top-priority programs and to promote and spread successful experiences which prove that it is possible to overcome the current obstacles facing the…

Kenya self-starvation cult leader charged with manslaughter

Paul Mackenzie was charged with terrorism last week NAIROBI, Jan 25 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kenyan self-starvation cult leader Paul Mackenzie has been charged with 238 counts of manslaughter, along with his wife and 93 other alleged accomplices.The additional charges come after Mackenzie and his suspected accomplices were charged with terrorism last…