Covid-19: Thousands march in Washington against vaccine mandates

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Waving signs denouncing President Joe Biden and calling for “freedom,” several thousand people demonstrated in Washington Sunday against what some described as the “tyranny” of Covid-19 vaccine mandates in the United States. Speaker after speaker — including notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who compared…

US: Wildfire in California’s Big Sur forces evacuations

Authorities closed a stretch of Highway 1, with no estimated time for reopening LOS ANGELES, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Firefighters on Sunday battled a wildfire that broke out in the rugged mountains along Big Sur, forcing hundreds of residents on a precarious stretch of coast in the US state of…

Leave Ukraine now, US tells families of diplomats as Russia tensions boil

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the US embassy in Kyiv WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US State Department ordered the families of US diplomats in Ukraine to leave the country while urging US citizens to leave as soon as possible due to “increased threats of Russian military action.” Tensions…

Iran Says UN Voting Right “Naturally” Restored After Paying Off Membership Arrears

TEHRAN, Jan 24 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran regained its right to vote at the UN General Assembly, after its membership dues to the organisation were paid by South Korea, with frozen Iranian funds, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations announced. Majid Takht-Ravanchi, said that, as soon as Iran’s arrears are received…

US navy stops ship carrying ‘explosive precursor’ from Iran

MANAMA, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US navy said it had stopped a ship carrying 40 tons of a fertiliser that can be used to make explosives as it travelled from Iran along a route previously used to smuggle weapons to Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The navy said it boarded and…

Record year for Argentine wine exports: foreign ministry

 BUENOS AIRES, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIE) — Argentina’s bottled wine exports hit a historic high in 2021 worth $817 million, the foreign ministry reported Saturday. The previous high was the $786 million in foreign wine sales marked in 2012. Leading export destinations were the United States, Britain, Brazil, Canada and the…

Covid-19: Covax opens new front in pandemic arms race

 GENEVA, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Covax aims to break the Covid-19 pandemic in 2022 by ensuring a steady supply of vaccines at last for the world’s poorest countries — and swiftly getting them into arms. The global scheme, aimed at procuring donor-funded jabs for the 91 weakest economies, delivered its…

Two Canadians shot dead at upscale Mexican resort in argument among guests; another injured

The local police chief tweeted a photo of the wanted gunman  CANCUN (Mexico), Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two Canadians have been shot dead and another injured after a dispute among guests at a hotel resort near Cancún, Mexico, local security officials say. Gunfire erupted on Friday at the Hotel Xcaret…

Covid-19: Brazil reports 157,393 new daily cases

BRASILIA, Jan 23 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil registered 157,393 new COVID-19 infections and 238 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total caseload to 23,909,175 and the national death toll to 622,801, the National Council of Health Secretariats reported.    It is the fourth day in a row that Brazil…

Peru declares environmental emergency on coastal area hit by oil spill

 LIMA, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Peru declared an environmental emergency Saturday to battle an oil spill caused by freak waves from a volcanic eruption in the South Pacific. The stunningly powerful eruption last Saturday of an undersea volcano near Tonga unleashed tsunami waves around the Pacific and as far away…
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