U.S.-Europe Split Widens Over Tech Fines, New U.S. Security Strategy

BRUSSELS, Dec 10 (NNN-XINHUA) – From Europe’s sweeping crackdown on American big tech, to a hard-edged new U.S. national security strategy, transatlantic tensions are mounting. In the past week, the European Commission opened two antitrust investigations into U.S. tech giant Google and Meta, and fined Elon Musk’s platform X 120…

Ukraine Ready For “Security Guaranteed” Elections In 60-90 Days: Zelensky

KIEV, Dec 10 (NNN-UNIAN) – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, said yesterday that, his country will be ready for elections in 60 to 90 days, if the United States and Europe guarantee security for such a vote, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported. “Moreover, I ask now, and I declare this openly,…

Group Of Friends Of Global Governance Established At UN Headquarters In New York

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Group of Friends of Global Governance was officially established at the UN headquarters in New York, yesterday. Representatives from nearly 40 founding member states of the group, attended the launch meeting, which was chaired by Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the United…

Uruguayan health authorities launch key vaccination campaigns

MONTEVIDEO, Dec 9 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Uruguay’s Health Ministry (MSP) launched this weekend a measles vaccination campaign after several detections were confirmed within a family that had arrived from Bolivia. All six confirmed cases belong to a single family residing in San Javier, in the department (province) of Río Negro. Additionally,…

Japanese People Rally To Oppose Deployment Of Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier In Yokosuka

TOKYO, Dec 9 (NNN-NHK) – A demonstration was held recently in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, to protest against the deployment of the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the area, local media reported. Sunday’s rally, organised by civic groups, drew approximately 1,000 people. They called for upholding Article 9 of Japan’s…

US: Pres Trump threatens Mexico with new tariffs in water supply dispute

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (NNN-XINHUA) — US President Donald Trump threatened to impose additional 5 percent tariffs on Mexican goods if its southern neighbor does not supply water based on a bilateral treaty signed in 1944. Mexico’s continuous violation of the 1944 Water Treaty is seriously hurting Texas crops and livestock,…

Bolivia: 2 dead, a dozen injured in clash between police, protesters in central Cochabamba department

LA PAZ, Dec 9 (NNN-XINHUA) — At least two people died and nearly a dozen were injured on Monday when protesters clashed with police attempting to clear their roadblock to a solid waste dump in Colcapirhua, a municipality in central Bolivia’s department of Cochabamba, according to local authorities. The incident…

Bolivia: 8 dead, 6 injured after small bus plunges into ravine in La Paz department

LA PAZ, Dec 9 (NNN-XINHUA) — At least eight people were killed and six others injured on Monday after a small bus plunged into a ravine along the Yungas Road in the Bolivian department of La Paz, said the national fire department. “Eight people are dead and six are injured.…

2025 on track to tie second hottest year on record: EU monitor

PARIS, Dec 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The planet is on track to log its second hottest year on record in 2025, tied with 2023 after a historic high in 2024, Europe’s global warming monitor said Tuesday. The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service reaffirms that global temperatures are on course…

Kenya deploys more police officers to control Haiti’s gangs

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Dec 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Kenya deployed hundreds of additional police officers to relieve law enforcement ending their mission in Haiti on Monday, aiming to maintain pressure on the island’s gangs as the country’s ongoing political and security crisis continues unabated. Criminal gangs have long ravaged Haiti, causing strife and…
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