WHO grants emergency approval for India’s Covaxin COVID-19 jab

     Bharat Biotech said Brazil, the Philippines, Iran and Mexico had also authorised its COVID-19 vaccine GENEVA, Nov 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization said it had issued an emergency use listing for Covaxin, a vaccine against Covid-19 produced by India’s Bharat Biotech.      Found to have 78 percent…

Turkish Police Detain 17 Suspects For Attacking U.S. Navy Crew

ISTANBUL, Nov 4 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkish police detained 17 suspects, in Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul, for an attempted attack on a crew member of the U.S. Navy, the Istanbul Governor’s Office announced yesterday. The office said in a written statement that, the suspects tried to put a sack over the…

Nicaragua: Electoral observers arrive for presidential election

MANAGUA, Nov 3 (NNN-TELESUR) — The vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, greeted the arrival of the electoral observors who will be present in the country to celebrate the general elections on Nov 7. “We have 46 brothers and sisters from Europe, 124 from Our Caribbean and Latin America and…

Cuban regime preparing to counter the 15N march; questions opposition leader

HAVANA, Nov 3 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — A leading member of the Cuban opposition was set free, with restrictions, on Tuesday following his detention by the government in the city of Santa Clara where he lives. “It’s all about 15 November” Guillermo Faríñas, the Sarajov Freedom Prize from the European Parliament, told…

Chile: Pres Piñera requests Congress to extend the state of emergency in Mapuche indigenous regions

SANTIAGO, Nov 3 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Chilean president Sebastian Piñera announced he sent Congress a bill requesting a further 15 days extension of the state of emergency in four areas of the Biobío and Araucaria regions, where there have been violent breaches of law and order. Under the exceptional emergency state…

Covid-19: A quarter of LA police could be sacked over vaccine mandate

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva LOS ANGELES, Nov 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than a quarter of staff in the United States’ largest sheriff’s department could lose their jobs for refusing to comply with Covid-19 vaccine mandates, the sheriff said. Just half of Los Angeles County Sheriff employees are fully…

US state elections: New York elects ex-cop Adams as second ever Black mayor

New York City Democratic Mayor-elect Eric Adams NEW YORK, Nov 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Ex-cop Eric Adams, who fought racial discrimination within the police, was elected New York’s next mayor on Tuesday and will become just the second African American to lead the United States’s largest city. He will take office…

3 African countries face US sanctions after illegal power seizure

WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Three African countries will be terminated from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) from Jan 1, 2022, US President Joe Biden said.  A statement issued by the office of the United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Katherine Tai reads, “Today President Biden announced three Countries…

Update: US, Russia issue Ethiopia travel advisories as rebels threaten to hit capital

ADDIS ABABA, Nov 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States and Russia have issued travel advisories to their nationals asking them to strongly reconsider travel to Ethiopia.The notice comes at a time two major rebel groups have threatened to march into the capital Addis Ababa to overthrow the Abiy Ahmed-led government.The…

WHO urges vaccine against bacteria killing 150,000 babies each year

   GENEVA, Nov 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organization on Wednesday called for the urgent development of a vaccine against a bacterial infection responsible for nearly 150,000 stillbirths and infant deaths each year.   A fresh report by the UN health agency and the London School of Hygiene and…
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