Brazil scrambles for rooms to host COP30 in Amazon

BRASILIA, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil insisted Wednesday it will have enough rooms for the tens of thousands of people expected to attend the COP30 UN climate conference in the Amazonian city of Belem in November. After complaints about sky-high room prices in the far-flung destination, organizers said they would…

Syria Condemns Israeli Strikes In Damascus, Calls For UN Action

DAMASCUS, Jul 17 (NNN-SANA) – Syria, yesterday, condemned the Israeli regime airstrikes that struck government buildings in the capital, Damascus, calling them a “blatant violation” of national sovereignty and international law. In a statement released by the foreign affairs authorities, Syria said, the strikes targeted “civilian infrastructure and government institutions”…

Regional countries condemn Israeli raids in Syria

CAIRO, Jul 17 (NNN-MENA) – Countries in the Middle East, yesterday, condemned the Israeli airstrikes targeting the Syrian Army General Command headquarters, and the presidential palace area in central Damascus. The Israeli regime said, the strikes were aimed at protecting the Druze minority in Syria, following deadly clashes in the…

Panic grips Haitian migrants in US as Trump pushes deportations

A person walks in the Little Haiti neighbourhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York City NEW YORK, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The 500,000-strong Haitian community in the US is in a state of panic as the Trump administration pushes to deport those who fled there after a devastating 2010…

Experts urge UN to safeguard poor communities’ right to milk, meat in new declaration

UNITED NATIONS, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A draft UN declaration to eliminate trans-fatty acids from global diets risks inadvertently denying the world’s poorest the nutritional benefits of milk and meat, experts have said. The new declaration to reduce non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like heart disease and diabetes proposes to eliminate all trans-fatty acids…

US deports five ‘barbaric’ migrants to Eswatini

MBABANE, July 17 (BBB-AGENCIES) — The US has deported five people who it described as “criminal illegal aliens” to the southern African kingdom of Eswatini. On board the flight were five deportees from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba and Yemen who have been convicted of crimes ranging from child rape to murder,…

Russia seizes $150 mn cocaine haul hidden in banana shipment from Latin America

MOSCOW, July 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia said it had seized 820 kilograms of cocaine hidden under a shipment of bananas, calling it its largest bust of drugs from Latin America this year. Cocaine smuggling into Russia has surged over the past two years, according to Russia’s Izvestia newspaper. Drug traffickers…

Israeli Regime Strikes Syrian Military Headquarters In Damascus

DAMASCUS/JERUSALEM, Jul 17 (NNN-SANA/MA’AN) – The Israeli regime, yesterday, bombed the Syrian military headquarters compound, in the capital, Damascus, wounding two people, according to Israeli and Syrian sources. “A while ago, the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) struck the entrance of the Syrian military headquarters in Damascus,” an Israeli army spokesperson…

Colombia: Three soldiers drown in survival training when crossing Magdalena River after their raft swept away by strong current

BOGOTA, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Three Colombian soldiers drowned in a river Tuesday during a survival training exercise, authorities said. The soldiers were participating in anti-guerrilla exercises in central Colombia, including a task in which they had to cross the Magdalena River with rafts they built themselves, army officer Jorge…

Cuba: Labour Minister Elena Feito resigns after downplaying poverty

HAVANA, July 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The labor minister in economically depressed Cuba resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over her claim that people rummaging through garbage cans were only pretending to be poor and not truly desperate. Such scenes of acute need are common in Cuba, especially in Havana, as people…
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