Syria Extends Ceasefire With Kurdish Forces By 15 Days To Support Daesh Detainee Transfers

DAMASCUS, Jan 25 (NNN-SANA) – Syria, yesterday, extended a truce with Kurdish forces by 15 days, to support the transfer of Daesh detainees from Syria to Iraq, as tensions in the country’s north-east continue, the Syrian defence authority said in a statement. “The ceasefire across all sectors of Syrian army…

Cocaine lab explosion kills nine in Colombia

BOGOTA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A cocaine laboratory explosion killed nine people Friday on Colombia’s Pacific coast, police said. The blast happened in southwest Narino department in a cocaine-producing area inhabited by the Indigenous Awa people and rife with illegal armed groups. Eight people were wounded. These victims worked for…

Nigeria: Seven miners shot dead in restive Plateau

ABUJA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Seven people were shot dead in an overnight attack at a mining site in Nigeria’s central Plateau state, a local youth group and a state official said.Plateau is one of several ethnically and religiously diverse hinterland states known as the Middle Belt, where communal conflict…

South Africa to step aside from G20 during United States presidency

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa PRETORIA, Jan 24 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — South Africa’s finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, has confirmed that the country will step back from its G20 engagements during the United States presidency of the grouping.Speaking at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Thursday, he described the decision…

UN rights chief slams ‘routine abuse’ of migrants in US

GENEVA, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United Nations rights chief voiced astonishment at the “now-routine abuse” of migrants by US authorities, urging Washington to end practices “tearing apart families”. Volker Turk called on the United States to ensure migration policies and enforcement practices respect human dignity and due process and…

Icy storm threatens Americans with power outages, extreme cold

NEW YORK, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Americans stripped supermarket shelves Friday ahead of potentially “catastrophic” winter weather that threatened at least 160 million people across the country with transportation chaos, blackouts and life-threatening cold. The massive storm system was set to drop a mix of freezing rain and heavy snow…

US strike on alleged drug-smuggling boat kills two in Pacific

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US military said it killed two alleged drug traffickers in a strike on a boat in the eastern Pacific Friday, while the Coast Guard was searching for a third person who survived. “Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russia demands Ukraine’s Donbas region ahead of Abu Dhabi talks

ABU DHABI, Jan 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia said it was not dropping its key demand that Ukraine pull out of its eastern Donbas region, ahead of three-way talks between Ukrainian, Russian and American officials in the UAE. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said territory remained the key issue and would be…

Iran Says 10 Foreign Intelligence Services Behind Recent Unrest

TEHRAN, Jan 24 (NNN-IRNA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said yesterday that, 10 foreign intelligence services were behind recent “terrorist” incidents in the country. In a statement on its official outlet Sepah News, the IRGC described the incidents as part of a failed “U.S.-Israeli plan,” to threaten Iran’s…

Mexico deploys 145 firefighters to put out wildfires in Chile

MEXICO CITY, Jan 23 (NNN-TELESUR) — Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE) announced the deployment of 145 firefighters from the National Forestry Commission (Conafor) to combat recent wildfires in the south of Chile. The firefighters arrived in Concepcion City following instructions from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who reaffirmed Mexico’s solidarity…
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