Man flies from Barbados to Miami with loaded gun

Barbados officials investigating how a man managed to board a commercial flight from the island nation to the US city of Miami with a loaded gun in his possession MIAMI, Dec 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Barbados officials were investigating how a man reportedly managed to board a commercial flight from the…

Update: Reward to find parents charged in school shooting

OXFORD (Michigan, US), Dec 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US Marshals are offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the parents of a teenager suspected of a deadly school shooting. James and Jennifer Crumbley are accused of ignoring warning signs before the rampage that left four students…

Covid-19: Mexico reports first Omicron case

MEXICO CITY, Dec 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico announced its first case of the coronavirus Omicron variant, in a traveller from South Africa, but the government said it was not considering border closures as a counter-measure. The variant was detected in a 51-year-old from South Africa with mild symptoms, under-secretary of…

US school shooter’s parents charged with manslaughter, wanted by police

 WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The parents of a 15-year-old who shot dead four students at a US high school with a gun bought by his father were preparing Friday to turn themselves in to authorities after being charged with involuntary manslaughter, their lawyers said.   The whereabouts of James…

Record drug money bust in Panama: US$10 million in cash

Record drug money bust in Panama: US$10 million in cash PANAMA CITY, Dec 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Panamanian authorities have seized a record haul of drug money – more than US$10 million in cash – in a crackdown on gangs linked to neighboring Colombia’s embattled Gulf Clan. It took investigators more…

US: Pres Biden signs short-term funding bill to avert gov’t shutdown

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (NNN-Xinhua) — US President Joe Biden on Friday signed a short-term funding bill that will keep the federal government running through Feb 18, 2022, avoiding a looming partial shutdown. “Funding the government isn’t a great achievement. It’s a bare minimum of what we need to get done,”…

Covid-19: Oil producers to increase output in January despite Omicron jitters

   LONDON, Dec 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Major oil producers decided to keep raising output levels in January, despite the Omicron coronavirus variant raising fresh questions over demand.   The OPEC+ alliance led by Saudi Arabia and Russia had so far resisted US-led pressure to significantly boost output to rein in surging…

Syrian Lab Found Wheat Seeds Offered By U.S. Contain Harmful Worm Infection

DAMASCUS, Dec 4 (NNN-SANA) – Syrian agriculture officials and farmers, have been complaining that the wheat seeds, recently provided by the United States for farmers, in Syria’s north-eastern province of al-Hasakah, contain a high degree of nematode (plant-parasitic worm) infection, that would harm the soil. In the laboratory examination that…

Mexican gov’t accepts temporary restart of US “Stay in Mexico” scheme

MEXICO CITY, Dec 3 (NNN-Xinhua) — Mexico’s government said that it accepted the temporary reinstatement of an immigration program that forces asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are being heard in the United States. Better known as “Stay in Mexico,” the Migrant Protection Protocols was accepted by…

Ukraine: Russia’s Lavrov warns of return to military confrontation nightmare

Antony Blinken and Sergei Lavrov met at a European security conference in Sweden  STOCKHOLM, Dec 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that Europe could be returning to what he called the “nightmare of military confrontation”. At a European security conference in Sweden, Lavrov floated the idea…
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