Four inmates found dead in riot-hit Ecuador prison, allegedly committed suicide

Inmates hold signs while standing atop a roof at the Regional 8 prison, next to the penitentiary, in the outskirts of Guayaquil QUITO, Oct 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four inmates were found dead Thursday at the same Ecuadorian prison where 119 prisoners were killed in the country’s deadliest inmate riot two…

UN to send panel of experts to monitor elections in Venezuela

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — The United Nations has decided to send a panel of electoral experts to follow next month’s regional and municipal elections in Venezuela. A team of three experts will be deployed to Venezuela to follow the electoral process and will provide the UN secretary-general with…

Mexico set to impose visa requirements on Brazilian visitors

MEXICO CITY, Oct 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico is slated to impose visa requirements for Brazilian visitors amid efforts to slow a wave of US-bound migration from Brazil, according to a document from Mexico’s interior ministry. Mexico has not required visas for Brazilians since 2004, giving migrants an easier path to…

Covid-19: US Navy says sailors who refuse vaccine will be expelled

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Navy said that personnel who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 will be expelled from the force, ahead of the Nov 28 deadline for the injection.    “With Covid-19 vaccines now mandatory for all military members, the Navy has announced plans to start processing…

US Pres Biden promises more vaccines, ties for Africa as Kenya leader visits

 WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Joe Biden announced a major new Covid vaccine donation for Africa and promised greater commitment to the continent as he welcomed his first African leader, Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta.   Meeting at the White House, Biden and the Kenyan president promised to work together on…

Bus plunged into ravine kills 6, injures 24 in Colombia

BOGOTA, Oct 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — At least six people were killed and more than a score injured after a bus plunged into a ravine about 150 meters deep in rural Chaparral, a town in central Colombia’s Tolima department, Civil Defense confirmed Thursday. The director of Civil Defense in Tolima, Major…

U.S. returns to UN Human Rights Council

Abdulla Shahid (L), president of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, presides over a General Assembly meeting at the UN Headquarters UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — The United States was on Thursday elected a member of the UN Human Rights Council, following its withdrawal in June…

Covid-19: US vaccine mandates are working, Pres Biden says, but 66 million still don’t have shot

WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden touted the success of mandates in spurring vaccination against COVID-19 in the United States but said more needed to be done to get the 66 million people who are eligible but still unvaccinated to get the shot. Vaccination rates against COVID-19 in…

Mexico City prosecutor to press homicide, other criminal charges for metro collapse

MEXICO CITY, Oct 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico City’s attorney general said she will press charges of homicide, personal injury and property damage against people and companies linked to the collapse of a section of a metro line in the capital that left 26 dead in May. “This attorney general’s office…

Covid-19: US to reopen Mexico, Canada land borders for fully vaccinated travellers

The US has closed its land borders with Canada and Mexico since March 2020  WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US has said it will reopen its land borders with Mexico and Canada to fully vaccinated travellers from November. It means those sealed out of the US because of the…
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