Europe

LONDON, Oct 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UK has issued a travel warning on Tanzania following the death last month of a patient suspected to have had Ebola-related complications.

Tanzania’s government denies the reports, saying there have been no confirmed or suspected Ebola cases.

The UK issued the travel warning as pressure mounts on Tanzania to share more information on the suspicious death.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a woman with the suspected Ebola virus died in Tanzania’s coastal city of Dar es Salaam.

MORIA (Greece), Oct 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Around a thousand migrants staged a fresh protest in Europe’s largest migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, days after a deadly fire at the vastly overcrowded facility.

A procession made up mainly of women and children, with some elderly people, left Moria camp walking towards the port of Mytilene, with demonstrators shouting slogans.

But police road-block stopped them half-way to Mytilene.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president said Tuesday that no one explained to him why millions of dollars in U.S. military aid to his country was delayed, dismissing suggestions that President Donald Trump froze the funding to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is struggling to distance himself from U.S. politics — and to contain the damage to Ukraine and his own reputation from a July phone conversation with Trump that unleashed a congressional impeachment inquiry.

MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/: The United States is unlikely to extend the Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the New START Treaty) but Washington may take this step for the sake of control of Russia’s nuclear potential, Russian experts said at a disarmament conference on Tuesday.

The conference titled ‘New Vector’ was organized by the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund and also involved US experts.

ST. PETERSBURG, October 1./TASS/: Relations between Russia and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are developing steadily, their cooperation is based on a foreign policy philosophy rooted in commitment to the principles of the UN Charter, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a letter welcoming the participants in the international forum entitled "Russia and Ibero-America in a Globalizing World."

MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/: The work on adapting Soyuz-2.1b carrier rockets for orbitting Gonets-M communications satellites will be over in 2020 and the first such launch is scheduled for the summer of next year, Gonets Satellite System Company told TASS on Tuesday.

YEREVAN, October 1. /TASS/: The presidents of Russia and Iran, Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rouhani, will meet in Yerevan on Tuesday to discuss the situation in the Strait of Hormuz and breaking the deadlock over the Iranian nuclear deal, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

"[The sides will discuss] tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and certainly the situation with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [on the Iranian nuclear problem]," Peskov said commenting on the talks’ agenda.

MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/: The upgraded T-90M may become the main battle tank for the Russian Army, Uralvagonzavod Special Representative for Military and Technical Cooperation, Army General Alexei Maslov told TASS on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin inked a law on ratifying the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, which confirms the exclusive competence of littoral states in solving issues related to this sea and takes into account the interests of security and protection of Russia’s state border.

The document was published on the official legal information portal on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, October 1. /TASS/: An officer from the Russian Investigative Committee, attacked with a knife earlier in the day, has died of a stab wound in an intensive therapy ward of Moscow’s Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency Care, a medical source has told TASS.

"For all their efforts, medics have failed to save his life. Vladislav Kapustin has just died," the source said. Kapustin received a stab wound from an unidentified person at the public entrance to the Investigative Committee’s building.