Covid-19: Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro City Hall to require vaccine passports for public spaces starting next month

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 29 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — The City Hall of Rio de Janeiro announced that effective Sept 1, a COVID-19 vaccination passport will be required for customers to be allowed to enter cinemas, theatres, museums, stadiums, amusement parks and gyms. Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes explained the city’s flexibility plans…

Covid-19: Uruguayan President signs decree outlining conditions for foreigners to re-enter as of Sept 1

MONTEVIDEO, Aug 29 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Foreign owners of real estate property in the country will be allowed back into Uruguay starting Sept 1 and bring along family members up to the second degree, provided they have all been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. As per a Decree signed by President Luis…

Italy says it has received most Afghan evacuees in EU

Afghan refugees waiting to be sorted into different residences at Rome Leonardo Da Vinci Airport in Fiumicino, Italy ROME, Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Italy said it has taken in the largest number of Afghans fleeing the war-ravaged country following the Taliban takeover, vowing “not to abandon” vulnerable groups after airlift…

Covid-19: 160,000 protest in France against Covid rules

PARIS, Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A total of 160,000 people protested across France on Saturday, the interior ministry said, angered at the country’s Covid health pass system which they say unfairly restricts the unvaccinated. By early evening the authorities had logged 222 separate protest actions, including 14,500 people who turned…

US airlifts food, tents to quake-ravaged southern Haiti

Food is loaded onto a VM-22 Osprey at Toussaint Louverture International Airport, in Port-au-Prince JEREMEI (Haiti), Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — US military aircraft are now flying food, tarps and other material into southern Haiti amid a shift in the international relief effort to focus on helping people in the areas hardest…

Afghans ‘we want peace from the world’ demonstrate in Athens

ATHENS, Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of Afghans marched to the US Embassy in Athens on Saturday, making a plea to the international community for peace and holding banners reading, “Afghanistan is bleeding” and “hands off our land.” Following the Taliban’s takeover of the country earlier this month, US troops have begun…

Covid-19: Police, protesters clash as thousands march against curbs in Berlin

Police confront a protester during a demonstration against coronavirus policies in Berlin on Saturday BERLIN, Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Police clashed with protesters as thousands of people marched through Berlin on Saturday chanting slogans and waving banners against COVID-19 restrictions. Some demonstrators tried to get past barricades to the government…

Thousands of Americans protest curbs on minority voting rights in US

Demonstrators hold up signs at a voting rights protest outside the US Chamber of Commerce Headquarters WASHINGTON, Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Washington, Houston, Atlanta and other US cities to protest against laws in several Republican-led states that critics say will…

Evacuations, fear as Hurricane Ida nears US Gulf Coast

 NEW ORLEANS, Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Owners were boarding up their shops and evacuations were underway as Hurricane Ida was on a path to hit New Orleans 16 years to the day the southern US city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. A handful of people were still on New Orleans…

Covid-19: African leaders renew calls for vaccine equity at Berlin summit

Angela Merkel, German Chancellor BERLIN, Aug 29 (NNN-AGENCIES) — African leaders attending a summit in Germany renewed calls for Covid-19 vaccine patent waivers, saying the decision would allow countries access to affordable jabs.Africa has administered the least vaccines of any continent while some richer countries have inoculated nearly their entire…