Colombia’s President Ivan Duque BOGOTA, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Colombia’s government must improve its protection of human rights activists and civilians, be more present in remote, poor areas, and fully implement a peace deal with FARC rebels to curb violence, the United Nations’ human rights body said. The murders of…

QUITO, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Hundreds of Ecuadorean indigenous protesters arrived in the capital Quito to demand a recount of the Feb 7 presidential election after official results showed indigenous activist Yaku Perez did not advance to the runoff vote. Perez, 51, has been walking through the Andean nation to…

TEGUCIGALPA, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The number of people going hungry in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua has nearly quadrupled in the last two years, the United Nations said, as Central America has been battered by an economic crisis. New data released by the UN’s World Food Program (WFP)…

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four board members of Texas’ power grid operator announced their resignation after millions of stateresidents were left without power during days of unprecedentedly frigidtemperatures. The board chair of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT),Sally Talberg, vice chairman Peter Cramton, finance and audit committee chair…

Food supplies have been restored in the U.S. state of Texas as most supermarkets operate normally on Tuesday WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, Feb 24 (NNN-Xinhua) — US President Joe Biden will travel to Houston, Texas on Friday to discuss with local officials relief efforts in the wake of extreme winter weather that caused…

Dozens of people have been killed in coordinated prison riots in Ecuador QUITO, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — At least 67 prisoners died on Tuesday during violent riots in three Ecuadorian prisons due to clashes between rival gangs, Director of the Comprehensive Care Service for Adults Deprived of Liberty Edmundo Moncayo…