Sudan offers more oil blocks to Russian company
MOSCOW/KHARTOUM, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sudan has offered more oil blocks to Russia’s Zarubezhneft oil company, at the end of…
Portugal wildfires: State of alert begins amid third heatwave
LISBON, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mobile phones in Portugal have been sent a text warning of the extreme risk of…
Evacuation orders lifted as Spain wildfire stabilised
MADRID, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Firefighters managed to stabilise Sunday a wildfire that has ravaged vast swathes of land in…
Strike begins at UK’s biggest container port
Some of those striking were at the picket line early on Sunday morning SUFFOLK (UK), Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Dock…
Leaders of US, UK, France, Germany discuss Iran nuclear issue
A man walks past a wall of the former US Embassy, with an anti-America mural on it, in Tehran, Iran…
Russia: 15 dead in minibus-lorries crash
MOSCOW, Aug 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Fifteen people were killed Sunday when a minibus collided with two trucks in Russia’s southern…
Medical marijuana industry flourishing in Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, Aug 21 (NNN-EFE) — A global pioneer in regulating marijuana recreational use, Uruguay’s medicinal cannabis industry is also flourishing,…
Darya Dugina: Daughter of Putin ally killed in Moscow bomb
Darya Dugina’s father Alexander is a prominent Russian ultra-nationalist thinker credited with deeply shaping President Vladimir Putin’s worldview MOSCOW, Aug…
Update: Somali forces end Al-Shabaab hotel siege – security commander
MOGADISHU, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Somali forces have ended a deadly siege by Al-Shabaab militant group at a hotel in…
The world’s cotton supply is shrinking hit by drought and heat
PARIS, Aug 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Extreme weather is wreaking havoc upon virtually all of the world’s largest cotton suppliers. In…