Dominican Republic Receives China’s Sinovac Vaccine

SANTO DOMINGO, Feb 25 (NNN-IRIN) – The Dominican Republic received a shipment of vaccines developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac on Tuesday night, authorities said. The cargo was received at the airport in the capital by an official delegation headed by the country’s Vice President, Raquel Pena. “The arrival of…

Covid-19: Novel coronavirus strains continue to spread worldwide, WHO says

GENEVA, Feb 24 (NNN-TASS) — A more contagious coronavirus strain VOC 202012/01 that was initially detected in the UK, has been reported in seven more countries over the past week, bringing the total to 101. The 501Y.V2 strain, first detected in South Africa, has spread to 41 countries, and the…

Covid-19: Uruguay starts inoculation campaign March 1 with Sinovac and Pfizer vaccines – Pres Luis Lacalle Pou

MONTEVIDEO, Feb 24 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Uruguay will be receiving the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines Thursday evening and the official inoculation campaign will begin on Monday March 1. Over the weekend those in charge of vaccination will be the first to receive the shots, according to president Luis Lacalle Pou.…

Halal chicken dispute blocks Brazil/Indonesia free trade talks

BRASILIA, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil should only begin free trade talks with Indonesia if it adopts recommendations made by a World Trade Organization panel in 2017 after a dispute over halal chicken, Brazil’s meat lobby ABPA said in a letter sent to three government ministries. “We don’t oppose a…

Green hydrogen hub planned in northeast Brazil

BRASILIA, Feb 24 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — A US$ 5.4bn green hydrogen hub has been planned in Ceará, northeast Brazil, and most probably the first-of-its-kind in Latin America. Set to be located at the Pecém Industrial and Port Complex (CIPP), 60km from Fortaleza, the hub will be built by Australia’s Enegix Energy.…

UN urges Colombia to fulfill peace deal, stem violence

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…

US Occupation Brings In Military Vehicles, Logistic Materials To Syria’s Hasaka Countryside

HASAKA, Feb 24 (NNN-SANA) – To support their illegitimate bases, the U.S. occupation forces, brought in yesterday, military armoured vehicles and logistic materials to Rmeilan, in Hasaka countryside, coming from northern Iraq. Local sources in Assweidyah village, in the north-east countryside of Hasaka, told reporters that, a convey of 40…

Ecuadorean indigenous protesters demand presidential vote recount

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…

Hunger in Central America skyrockets, UN agency says

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)…

UN expert says Iran lied in downing of Ukraine airliner

Authorities work at the scene of a crashed Ukrainian plane in Shahedshahr last year UNITED NATIONS, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A UN official accused Iran of lying in its explanation of how it shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet near Tehran last year at a time of acute tension with…
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