Haiti president acts to oust judges in power struggle

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise tried to force out three judges who were proposed as potential interim national leader to replace him in the latest twist of the country’s political crisis. Moise says his term in office lasts until February 2022 — but the opposition argues…

Covid-19: Peru gives first vaccines, Argentina approves Indian jab

LIMA, Feb 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Peru began its coronavirus immunization program just two days after receiving 300,000 vaccine doses from state-owned Chinese company Sinopharm. The country has been hard hit by a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping Latin America. It has recorded around 1.2 million cases and more…

Covid-19: Latest global developments

PARIS, Feb 10 (NNN-AGNECIES) — Here are some of the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: The virus has killed at least 2,325,744 people since the outbreak emergedin China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources. The US is the worst-affected country with 465,083 deaths followed byBrazil…

Pakistani FM Apprises Chilean Counterpart Of Rescue Operation For Missing Mountaineer

ISLAMABAD, Feb 10 (NNN-APP) – Pakistani Foreign Minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, held a telephone conversation with his Chilean counterpart, Andres Allamand regarding a missing Chilean mountaineer who attempted to scale the world’s second-highest peak K2, in winter. Chilean mountaineer, Juan Pablo Mohr, was attempting to scale K2 with Pakistan’s renowned…

Covid-19: Pandemic sinks over 16 million into poverty in Lat-Am

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (NNN-TELESUR) — The COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 16 million people to fall into poverty in Latin America, the International Monetary Fund reported. “The crisis has had a disproportionate impact on employment, with losses concentrated mostly on women, youth, and informal and lower-skilled workers, and social indicators…

France want “environmental and health standards” guarantees from Mercosur to sign the trade accord

PARIS, Feb 9 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Mercosur/European Union trade agreement signing delayed because of a demand from France for guarantees referred to as “environmental and health standards” from country members of the South American block. The French foreign trade minister Franck Riester said Paris will not sign, but “it does not…

Chagossian people claiming billions of dollars from the US government for loss of Diego Garcia island

NEW YORK, Feb 9 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — The Chagossian people are seeking billions of dollars in damages from the United States under the Foreign Claims Act. The United Nations General Assembly, African Union, and International Court of Justice have all found that the forcible deportation of the Chagos Islanders a generation…

Covid-19: Pres Bolsonaro preparing a new round of emergency cash transfer to millions of Brazilians

BRASILIA, Feb 9 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Brazil is preparing a fresh round of emergency cash transfers to millions of poor, President Jair Bolsonaro said. “I think there will be an extension,” Bolsonaro said in an interview with the TV program Brasil Urgente. The previous program expired Dec 31, which helped Bolsonaro…

Mexican president says he’s beaten COVID-19

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador MEXICO CITY, Feb 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he had overcome the coronavirus as he resumed his daily news conference after more than two weeks in isolation. “I thank all Mexicans, men and women, who worried about my illness…

Covid-19: Study finds variant discovered in Britain spreading fast in US

WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (NNN-XINHUA) — A new study finds that the morecontagious coronavirus variant first detected in Britain is spreading rapidlyacross the United States, US media said. Though the variant is “currently at a relatively low frequency” in thecountry, the study suggests that it is “doubling every week and a…
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