Covid-19: Venezuela receives over 2 mln doses of vaccines through COVAX

Workers offload the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines under the COVAX scheme CARACAS, Oct 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — Venezuela received more than 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX program in another step towards the goal of vaccinating 70 percent of its population. Venezuelan Health Minister Carlos Alvarado welcomed the shipment of…

US shooting: Three men arrested in connection with mass shooting in Minnesota; 1 dead, 14 injured

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Three men have been arrested in connection with an early Sunday morning shootout at a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, that left one woman dead and 14 people injured. “Three men have been arrested in connection to this morning’s shootings and the tragic death of…

Update: US says Taliban talks in Doha were ‘candid and professional’

Other areas of focus during the meet included the participation of women in Afghan society WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States said the first face-to-face meeting between senior US and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was “candid and professional” and that the US side…

Afghanistan: US and Taliban hold first face-to-face talks since withdrawal

Funerals were held for victims of a suicide attack  WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US officials have met Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban for their first face-to-face talks since Washington pulled its troops from the country in August. The talks in Qatar are focusing on issues including containing extremist groups, the evacuation…

Brazil: Extreme drought in triggers fatal sand storms

 SAO PAULO, Oct 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Unusually powerful sandstorms have left at least six people dead in Sao Paulo in recent weeks, local media said, as southeastern Brazil grapples with severe drought.   Scenes of huge orange dust clouds rumbling across the countryside — with winds of up to 100…

Iran’s 20-Percent Enriched Uranium Stockpile Exceeds 120 Kg: Nuke Chief

TEHRAN, Oct 11 (NNN-TASNIM) – Head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) said, his country’s stockpile of 20-percent enriched uranium exceeded 120 kg. Regarding the storage of 20 percent enriched uranium, “we have exceeded 120 kg and in this matter, we are ahead of the plan,” Mohammad Eslami,…

AUKUS Deal To Seriously Affect Regional Peace, Stability, Security: Scholar

PHNOM PENH, Oct 10 (NNN-AKP) – The military pact among the U.S., Britain and Australia, known as AUKUS, will seriously affect regional peace, stability and security, and it can trigger nuclear competition in the region, a Cambodian scholar warned. The deal, which will enable Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines, with…

COP15 Media Centre Opens In Kunming

KUNMING, Oct 10 (NNN-XINHUA) – The media centre for the upcoming 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) opened yesterday. Located at the Kunming Dianchi International Convention & Exhibition Centre, in Kunming, Yunnan Province in south-west China, the media centre opens…

Six Die In Bolivian Air Force Plane Crash

LA PAZ, Oct 10 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – Six people died yesterday, including four officials from the Bolivian Ministry of Health, after a Bolivian Air Force plane crashed, in the Amazon area of Agua Dulce in the Pando department, local police said. Colonel Luis Cuevas, deputy commander of the Bolivian Police,…

Four Killed After Small Plane Crashed Near U.S. City Of Atlanta

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) – All four people aboard were killed Friday afternoon, after a small plane crashed and burst into flames, near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. media reported, citing authorities. Multiple media outlets cited the Federal Aviation Administration as saying that, the single-engine Cessna 210 crashed about 1:10 p.m., soon…
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