Covid-19: WHO confirms gradual decline in covid deaths

GENEVA, Oct 18 (NNN-TELESUR) — Director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, reported that the number of deaths per week in the world due to COVID-19 continues to fall and stands at 50,000, the lowest figure recorded in almost a year. However, the head of the…

Covid-19: Haiti to return soon-to-expire 250,000 vaccines to COVAX facility

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 18 (NNN-TELESUR) — Haiti’s Multisectoral Pandemic Management Commission (MPMC) announced that it will return 250,000 Moderna vaccines that will expire on Nov 6 to the COVAX facility since health authorities have not been able to implement a massive immunization campaign. “We wish that other countries with more advanced immunization…

Thousands protest in El Salvador against Bukele government

A demonstrator holds a sign reading: ‘Bukele dictator, out of El Salvador’ SAN SALVADOR, Oct 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Thousands of people in El Salvador took to the streets to air a range of complaints against President Nayib Bukele, from adopting bitcoin as legal tender to firing Supreme Court judges, viewed…

Armed attack in Colombia leaves 3 Venezuelans, 2 Colombians dead

Colombian troops close the Venezuela-Colombia border in San Antonio BOGOTA, Oct 18 (NNN-Xinhua) — Three Venezuelans and two Colombians were killed in the municipality of Betania, Antioquia department, in northwestern Colombia, local authorities reported. Antioquia Governor Anibal Gaviria denounced the incident on Twitter and stated that he is organizing an…

UK: Man goes on trial over plane death of Argentine footballer Sala

  LONDON, Oct 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A man charged in connection with the death of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in a light aircraft crash in 2019 go on trial in Cardiff on Monday.   David Henderson was charged last year for endangering the safety of an aircraft and attempting to…

US racism: Three white Americans go on trial in death of black jogger

  WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Three white men in the US state of Georgia will go on trial Monday in the high-profile shooting death of a Black jogger that sparked a national outcry and helped fuel last summer’s socialjustice protests.   Gregory McMichael, 65, his son Travis, 35, and…

Alleged money launderer close to Venezuelan Pres Maduro defiant after extradition to US

  CARACAS, Oct 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A fugitive businessman accused of acting as a money launderer for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s regime said Sunday he would not collaborate with the United States, a day after he wasextradited to the country from Cape Verde.   Maduro said Sunday evening in a…

US shootings: One dead as college endures two shootings in a week

  WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — One person was killed and another seven injured at a US university shooting early Sunday, police said, just days after another firearm incident at the same school left one dead.   A student was among those wounded in the attack at around 1:30am (local)…

8 killed, over 20 injured in traffic accident in Peru

  LIMA, Oct 17 (NNN-XINHUA) — Eight people were killed and 20 others were injured after a bus collided with two vehicles on Saturday in the southern department of Arequipa, Peru, local media reported.   The bus, belonging to the company Tuti Tours, was coming from the province of Caylloma…

At least 6 dead, 1 missing after ship sinks in Brazil

  BRASILIA, Oct 17 (NNN-XINHUA) — At least six people died and another one is missing after a ship sank in the Paraguay River in the central-western Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, local authorities reported on Saturday.   The mishap occurred on Friday afternoon when a strong wind caused the…
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