Honduras to accept more asylum seekers under latest US immigration deal

Honduran migrants after being deported from the United States upon their arrival at the Ramon Villeda International Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras NEW YORK, Sept 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Honduras signed a deal with the U.S. government on Wednesday that could push migrants who cross the country on the way…

Haiti’s president calls for unity government, protesters demand resignation

President of Haiti Jovenel Moise PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise called for a unity government in a rare address to the nation on Wednesday as he faced a brewing political crisis and intensifying protests after a ruling-party senator fired a pistol to disperse a crowd. Residents…

US: Majority of Americans oppose Pres Trump impeachment

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — According to a poll released Wednesday, 57 percent of US voters are opposed to impeaching President Donald Trump. Only 37 percent of Americans support impeaching Trump and removing him from office, the Quinnipiac University poll revealed. These are the first figures announced since the…

US Pres Trump says Venezuelans will end up ‘free’

NEW YORK, Sept 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US PresidentDonald Trump said that Venezuela was suffering “a tragedy ofhistoric proportions” as he pledged to do everything in his power to isolatePres Nicolas Maduro. Trump told around two dozen Latin American leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly that socialism had…

Popularity of Brazil’s president eroding, poll says

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept 26 (NNN-Xinhua) — The approval rate of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has dropped to 31 percent in September, according to a latest survey. Pollster Ibope said that 31 percent of respondents considered Bolsonaro’s government good or very good, compared with 34 percent who said it was…

US elections, impeachment may waylay free trade deal: Mexican Pres Obrador

MEXICO CITY, Sept 26 (NNN-Xinhua) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that the looming US elections and impeachment proceedings could hold up the ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). “We don’t want it to be left until the eve of the elections (in November 2020). It’s better…

Pres Trump takes steps to bar some Iranian officials from US

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump gave the State Department the authority to bar senior Iranian officials and their family members from entering the United States as immigrants or non-immigrants, the White House said in a proclamation. The proclamation, posted on the White House website and bearing Wednesday’s…

US authorities seize five tons of cocaine from submarine

US Coast Guard seizes 5.4 tonnes of cocaine aboard homemade submarine off the Pacific coast of South America WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A homemade submarine carrying more than five tons of cocaine was intercepted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America, the US Coast Guard said.…

More than 2 million animals perish in Bolivia wildfires: environmental experts

LA PAZ, Sept 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swaths of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said. The fires devastated the Chiquitania tropical savanna in the east of the country. “We have…

Venezuela: Two soldiers sentenced to six years over officer’s death

CARACAS, Sept 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Two Venezuelan soldiers were given six years in prison over the death in custody of a navy officer accused of plotting to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro, said his lawyer. Lieutenant Ascanio Tarascio and Sergeant Estiben Zarate were tried in a civil court in Caracas, where…
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