US Pres Biden reaffirms support for Venezuela opposition leader

 CARACAS, July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Joe Biden reaffirmed US support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido in a letter Monday even in the midst of efforts to resume negotiations with President Nicolas Maduro’s government. “Under your leadership and in coalition with civil society leaders you are preserving those ideals…

Toll hits 28 as work resumes at collapsed Florida apartment

SURFSIDE (Florida, US), July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death toll climbed to 28 in the collapse of a Florida condo tower, where search work resumed after the dangerously unstable remaining portion of the building was brought down with explosives ahead of a coming tropical storm, officials said.  Some 117 people…

US racism: California Assembly Member supports probe into American Indian boarding schools in Golden State

Deb Haaland, the US interior secretary, announced an investigation into Native American boarding schools LOS ANGELES, July 6 (NNN-Xinhua) — James Ramos, a California State Assemblyman and historian, joined other tribal leaders across Southern California to support a federal investigation of Native Indian boarding schools operated under the U.S. government’s…

Covid-19: Chile to lift lockdown in all Metropolitan Region as cases decline

Chile has reported declining cases of Covid-19 SANTIAGO, July 6 (NNN-Xinhua) — Chile on Monday said it will lift lockdown restrictions throughout the Santiago Metropolitan Region on Thursday, following the decrease in new cases of COVID-19. The positivity rate in the past day dropped to 3.7 percent in the capital,…

Tropical storm Elsa makes landfall in Cuba

A man secures his fishing boat to land ahead of the passage of Tropical Storm Elsa in Havana HAVANA, July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tropical Storm Elsa was unleashing heavy winds and rains that the National Hurricane Center warned would cause “significant flash flooding and mudslides” as it moved across western Cuba Monday…

US shooting: One dead, three wounded in Santa Rosa gang-related drive-by shooting

SANTA ROSA (California, US), July 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — One person was dead and three others wounded in an early Monday morning gang-related, drive-by shooting in a Santa Rosa neighborhood as a gathering was in the midst of a July 4th celebration, authorities said. Santa Rosa police Sgt. Christopher Mahurin said…

UN Chief Saddened By Loss Of Life In Japan Mudslide

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) – UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, was saddened by the loss of life and destruction caused by a mudslide in Japan, said his spokesman yesterday. Guterres extended his deep condolences to the families of the victims, the government and people of Japan. He commended the work…

Chile: Indigenous Mapuche woman picked to lead architects of Chile’s new constitution

Constitutional assembly president Elisa Loncon speaks as assembly members gather for the first session to draft a new constitution SANTIAGO, July 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Delegates chose a woman from Chile’s majority indigenous Mapuche people to lead them in drafting the country’s new constitution – a dramatic turnaround for a group that…

Covid-19: Russia cases soar again as Delta strain sparks global resurgence

Bangladesh is under lockdown battling a dire new surge of the Delta variant of the coronavirus MOSCOW, July 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia on Sunday counted more than 25,000 new daily infections after a week of record death tolls as the highly contagious Delta variant propels a global resurgence of the pandemic.…

Florida condo collapse: Explosives set off, bringing down rest of condominium

The damaged remaining structure at the Champlain Towers South condo building collapses in a controlled demolition SURFSIDE (Florida, US), July 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Demolition crews set off explosives late on Sunday to bring down the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condominium building, a key step to resuming…
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