Americas

Ecuador seeks to identify remains of 116 inmates killed in prison riot

GUAYAQUIL (Ecuador), Oct 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ecuador sought to identify the remains of the 116 inmates killed during a riot…

Covid-19: US administers nearly 392 million doses of vaccines – CDC

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States has administered 391,992,662 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of…

US Senate defeats bid to curtail benefits for Afghan refugees

An Afghan boy pumps up his arms as he and other refugees board a bus taking them to a processing…

Canada marks first national holiday for indigenous reconciliation

Nanook Gordon, from Inuvik, dances while wearing grass dance regalia during Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, honouring…

‘Urgent’ international response needed in Myanmar after coup: UN Sec-Gen

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an “urgent” international response to the political crisis…

Argentine meat sales to China to resume next week; the rest of the world will have to wait until 2022

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 30 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Argentina will resume meat exports to China as of this coming Monday, it was…

Covid-19: Argentine national gov’t to hunt down those unregistered for vax

BUENOS AIRES, Sept 30 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Argentina’s Federal Health Council announced that although immunization will not be mandatory, a nationwide…

US ‘lost’ the 20-year war in Afghanistan: top US general

  WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The top US general conceded in a stark admission that the United States “lost”…

Mexico flies 70 Haitian migrants back home

Haitian migrant children arrive with their parents at the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance, COMAR, to request refuge in Mexico…

US Senate to vote Thursday in bid to avert government shutdown

  WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Senate announced it would vote on a stopgap funding bill Thursday to…