US charges Russians with cyber attacks on Ukraine, French elections, Olympics

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Six Russian military intelligence officers have been charged in the United States with carrying out cyberattacks on Ukraine’s power grid, the 2017 French elections and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, the Justice Department announced on Monday. The six GRU agents were also accused of staging…

Exiled former Pres Morales says will return to Bolivia after ally’s election victory

Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales LA PAZ, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Exiled former president Evo Morales signalled his intention to return to Bolivia after his leftist heir Luis Arce’s sweeping presidential election victory. Arce, a former economy minister under Morales, claimed victory in Sunday’s election after exit polls suggested a crushing triumph…

Covid-19: Argentina hits 1 million cases as pandemic slams Latin America

USHUAIA (Argentina), Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At the edge of Argentina in a city known as “The End of the World,” many thought they might be spared from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Sitting far from the South American nation’s bustling capital, health workers in Ushuaia were initially able…

Covid-19: 10 residents dead at Kansas nursing home

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly TOPEKA (Kansas, US), Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A coronavirus outbreak has killed 10 residents in a nursing home in a northwestern Kansas county that proportionally already had the nation’s largest increase in cases over two weeks. The health department in Norton County reported that all 62…

Covid-19: Sputnik V vaccine supplies to Latin America may start in December

MOSCOW, Oct 20 (NNN-TASS) – The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) plans to initiate supplies of the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V to Argentina and Peru, chief executive of the Fund Kirill Dmitriev said during an online conference “We will announce shortly an agreement with Argentina and an agreement with…

Covid-19: Pelosi, Mnuchin continue US stimulus talks as Tuesday deadline nears

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made progress in US stimulus negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, an aide to the Democratic lawmaker said. Negotiations over another stimulus package to help the economy ravaged by Covid-19 have gone on for months, with Democrats pushing a $2.2 trillion…

US, Brazil sign ‘ambitious’ trade protocol

BRASILIA, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States and Brazil signed three agreements Monday they said would expand and deepen their existing trade deal, the latest bonding moment under Presidents Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil said talks on the “ambitious” agreements were launched when Bolsonaro, a far-right leader sometimes…

EU hails US plan to remove Sudan from terror blacklist

BRUSSELS, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The EU’s diplomatic chief welcomed President Donald Trump’s announcement that he is ready to remove Sudan from a US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism. The move, a major boost for Sudan’s civilian-backed government after decades as an international pariah, came after Khartoum agreed to…

Covid-19: Enforce quarantine to crush pandemic, says WHO

GENEVA, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Contacts of people confirmed to have coronavirus should be properly quarantined, the World Health Organization said, as the pandemic surges in Europe and North America. WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan linked soaring transmission rates in the northern hemisphere to the failure to implement the vital…

Covid-19: US Pres Trump slams govt top scientist Fauci ‘and all these idiots’

WASHINGTON, Oct 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US President Donald Trump went after top government scientist Anthony Fauci in a call with campaign staffers on Monday, suggesting the hugely respected and popular doctor was an “idiot.” Fauci, a key member of the White House coronavirus task force, has increasingly become a focus…
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