News in Brief (25-09-2019)

FE Team | Published: September 25, 2019 00:29:18

US-N Korea nuke talks likely
to resume soon
SEOUL, Sept 24: South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers in a private briefing Tuesday that nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea will likely resume within two to three weeks, according to one of the lawmakers who attended the session. The National Intelligence Service gave its assessment on the prospect for a resumption of nuclear diplomacy, hours after President Donald Trump said another meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "could happen soon." — AP
Lula won’t apply for home detention
SAO PAULO, Sept 24: Brazil's leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday opted to stay behind bars rather than apply for home detention, as he maintained his innocence of corruption charges, his lawyers said. The ex-president has been incarcerated at the federal police headquarters in the southern city of Curitiba since April 2018, after he was sentenced to eight years and 10 months in jail for accepting a bribe. — AFP
Ghana arrests suspects over
'plot' against govt
ACCRA, Sept 24: Ghana's security forces have arrested at least three suspects over an alleged plot to destabilise the government, the information minister said. "The joint operation was to neutralise an elaborate plot targeted at the presidency, and with the ultimate aim of destabilising the country," Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said in a statement Monday. — AFP
S Korea hospital fire leaves two dead
SEOUL, Sept 24: Two elderly patients were confirmed dead and 36 others injured, in a South Korean fire at a nursing hospital, Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday citing the fire authorities. The fire broke out at a five-story building, housing the hospital on the third and fourth floors, in Gimpo, about 30 km west of the capital Seoul, at about 9:03 a.m. local time. It was extinguished some 50 minutes later. — Xinhua
Ocean Viking disembarks 182 migrants
ON BOARD THE OCEAN VIKING, Sept 24: A humanitarian ship has docked in Italy to disembark 182 men, women and children rescued in the Mediterranean Sea after fleeing Libya. The Ocean Viking arrived in the Sicilian port of Messina with Italy's permission on Tuesday morning. On land, police and the Red Cross waited for the migrants - who were picked up from three different boats on Sept. 17-18 - to step out. — AP
Eight babies perish in Algeria hospital fire
ALGIERS, Sept 24: Eight babies were killed when a fire ripped through the maternity unit at a hospital in eastern Algeria before dawn on Tuesday, emergency services said. "We managed to rescue 11 babies, 107 women and 28 staff" after the 3:50 am (0250 GMT) fire in the hospital in Oued Souf, 500 kilometres (300 miles) southeast of Algiers, spokesman Captain Nassim Bernaoui said. — AFP
Yemen air raids claim 16 lives
DUBAI, Sept 24: Seven children were among 16 people killed Tuesday in twin air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in southern Yemen, an official and a doctor said. "Sixteen people, including women and children, were killed and nine others injured" in a coalition air raid targeting a residence in Daleh province, the local official told AFP on condition of anonymity. — AFP