Spain to set up national climate shelter network: PM

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez MADRID, Dec 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced that Spain would set up a national network of climate shelters to help people survive increasingly severe heatwaves. “Devastating droughts and heatwaves are no longer rare. Some summers, it’s not separate waves we face, but one long heatwave…

UK experiences sunniest year on record

LONDON, Dec 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Britain might be known for its damp and grey climate, but it recorded its sunniest year on record in 2025, meteorologists announced on Wednesday. The country notched an average of 1,622 hours of sunshine up to December 15, beating the previous record set in 2003,…

US Pres Trump adds Syria, Laos to expanded US travel ban

WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump expanded a US travel ban by barring nationals of seven more countries including Syria, as well as Palestinian Authority passport holders, from entering the United States. Trump, who has long campaigned to restrict immigration and has spoken in increasingly strident terms, moved…

6th China-Russia Media Forum Eyes Supporting Development Of Both Countries

BEIJING, Dec 17 (NNN-XINHUA) – The sixth China-Russia Media Forum, which was held in Beijing yesterday, discussed promoting friendship between and supporting development of the two countries through media cooperation. Li Shulei, who is a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and…

Benin: 30 people jailed in connection with failed coup

Patrice Talon is the President of Benin PORTO-NOVO, Dec 17 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Some 30 people, most of them soldiers, have been jailed in Benin in connection with a failed coup attempt earlier this month.The soldiers took over state television on Dec 7 and announced that the government had been dissolved.But…

Russia: 1 killed, 1 injured in school stabbing in Moscow region

MOSCOW, Dec 16 (NNN-XINHUA) — A student was fatally stabbed by a minor, who also wounded a security guard, at an educational institution in the Moscow region early Tuesday, the Russian Investigative Committee said. The incident occurred at the Gorki-2 settlement in the western district of Odintsovsky, the committee said,…

9 African migrants died in freezing temperatures near Morocco-Algeria border

RABAT, Dec 16 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Exposure to freezing temperatures near Morocco’s border with Algeria killed nine African migrants, a tragedy that rights groups in the North African country called deeply concerning and a violation of the right to freedom of movement. The bodies of seven men and two women were…

UK: Doctors in England to strike as ‘super flu’ surges

Strikes by resident doctors in England will go ahead as planned from Wednesday LONDON, Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Doctors in England voted Monday to go ahead with a five-day strike starting this week in the busy Christmas season as a “super flu” outbreak sweeps the country. Prime Minister Keir Starmer…

ICC rejects Israel appeal, backs Gaza war crimes investigation

THE HAGUE, Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) appeals chamber has rejected Israel’s challenge to the legality of the court’s investigation into war crimes committed in Gaza after October 2023. In a judgment issued on Monday, judges confirmed an earlier ruling by the pre-trial chamber, finding that…

EU to sanction 40 more vessels, EU top diplomat says

BRUSSELS, Dec 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — European Union foreign ministers are to impose sanctions on around 40 additional vessels that are used to circumvent the penalties imposed on Russia over its war in Ukraine, EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas said. Sanctioning more ships of the so-called shadow fleet means “depriving…
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