Spain to allow girls over 16 to opt for abortions

 MADRID, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Spain has approved a draft bill that would remove the requirement for 16 and 17-year-old girls to have parental consent before terminating a pregnancy. The new bill is aimed at reforming a previous abortion law approved by the conservative People’s Party in 2015. Government spokeswoman…

Belarus introduces death penalty for ‘attempted’ terrorism: reports

MINSK, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Belarus has introduced the death penalty for attempts to carry out acts of terrorism, charges that several opposition activists face in the ex-Soviet country. “Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a law on the possibility of the death penalty for an attempted terrorist act,” the RIA…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: 959 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered at Azovstal since Monday – Russia

MOSCOW, May 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russia’s defence ministry said that 959 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered this week at the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol. “Over the past 24 hours, 694 militants surrendered, including 29 wounded,” the ministry said in its daily briefing on the conflict.…

Russia-Ukraine conflict: Finland, Sweden hand in applications to join NATO

BRUSSELS, May  19 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Finland and Sweden have handed in their bids to join NATO, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine up-ended decades of military non-alignment. The applications were warmly received by most allies. But Turkey raised objections, and ambassadors meeting in Brussels on Wednesday failed to reach consensus on…

Turkish Finance Minister To Travel To Egypt For First Minister-Level Visit In Nine Years

ANKARA, May 19 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkish Finance Minister, Nureddin Nebati, will travel to Egypt in early June, to attend a meeting of the Islamic Development Bank, a statement of the finance ministry said, yesterday. Nebati will head a delegation to Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh, and is…

Over 113,000 Syrian Immigrants Gain Right To Vote In Turkish Elections: Official

ANKARA, May 19 (NNN-ANADOLU) – A Turkish migration official said yesterday that, the country now has more than 113,000 Syrians who can vote in Turkish elections. A total of 200,950 Syrians were granted Turkish citizenship and 113,654 of them are over the age of 18, and have the right to…

World Bank To Resume Funding Projects To Support Poor People In Sudan: Ministry

KHARTOUM, May 18 (NNN-SUNA) – The World Bank has notified the Sudanese authorities that, it would resume funding projects to support the poor people in Sudan, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. “The Finance Minister, Jibril Ibrahim, has been informed that the World Bank has embarked on resuming the programme,…

Zimbabwe seeks EU backing to sell $600M worth of ivory

HARARE, May 17 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) — Zimbabwe on Monday sought the support of the European Union to sell off US$600 million worth of ivory it has accumulated due to the global ban on the sale of tusks. International trade in ivory has been banned since 1989 under the Convention on International…

French city approves Muslim swimsuit in controversial change

Members of the pro-burkini association Alliance Citoyenne watch on a TV screen as members of the Municipal Council vote to allow the wearing of the burkini in the city’s swimming pools, in Grenoble GRENOBLE (France), May 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The French city of Grenoble authorised the wearing of the so-called…

Spain, Morocco reopen land borders after two-year closure

FNIDEQ (Morocco), May 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Morocco and Spain have reopened the land borders between the north African country and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, two years after they were shut due to Covid restrictions and a major diplomatic row. The enclaves on the Mediterranean coast in northern…
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