Bolivia Signs Contract with India to Acquire AstraZeneka Vaccine

LA PAZ, Jan 14 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Bolivia Wednesday signed a contract with India’s Serum Institute to purchase five million doses of AstraZeneka vaccine to combat Covid-19, according to President Luis Arce. The President stated that with the previous purchase of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V and now with the…

Cuba and EU Value Cooperation in Trade

HAVANA, Jan 14 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Cuba and the European Union (EU) on Wednesday positively assessed the results achieved in the areas of trade and investment, during the second Joint Committee between both parties, which met virtually. According to a press release from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the…

Cuba Condemns Accusation of Sponsoring Terrorism

HAVANA, Jan 13 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Cuba condemned on Tuesday the recent accusation of sponsoring terrorism during a virtual meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). In that regard, Cuba’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Anayansi Rodriguez denounced that the decision of the US government is…

WHO Calls To Prevent Cervix Cancer And Its Effects

GENEVA, Jan 12 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Every year over 300,000 women in the world die of cervix cancer, which could be prevented if they received timely health care, WHO warns Tuesday.This could be the first cancer to be eliminated if 90 percent of girls are vaccinated, 70 percent of women…

Cuban Province Aspire To UNESCO Creative City

MATANZAS (Cuba), Jan 12 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — The western city aspires to be Creative City granted by UNESCO, and must finish the file in January to achieve such a recognition, said Matanzas curator Leonel Perez Orozco in an interview with Prensa Latina News Agency.Perez Orozco explained that, once the corresponding…

Cuba Presents Favorable Indicators In Pregnant Women With Covid-19

HAVANA, Jan 12 (NNN-Prensa Latina) — Cuba reaches this Monday 10 months of Covid-19 epidemic and to date, some 104 pregnant women have been infected with the disease, but none of them have died.According to a recent report by Francisco Duran, director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health…

China draws comparison between storming of US Capitol, HK protests

Capitol police look on as pro-Trump protesters attempt to storm the US Capitol BEIJING, Jan 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — China drew a comparison on Thursday between the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump and last year’s often-violent pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong but noted that no…

EU “highly concerned” over Iran’s uranium enrichment programme

BRUSSELS, Jan 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The European Union (EU) is “highly concerned” over Iran’s decision to start enriching uranium with 20 percent purity, a spokesperson said.Peter Stano, a spokesperson for the bloc’s external action service, said at the European Commission’s daily briefing that Iran’s decision was “regrettable.”Iran started production of…

Sudan signs deal on normalising ties with Israel, agrees aid deal

KHARTOUM, Jan 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Sudan signed the “Abraham Accords” paving the way to normalising ties with Israel, alongside an aid deal to access $1 billion annual World Bank financing, during an unprecedented visit by the US treasury chief.The deals were signed less than a month after Washington removed Khartoum…

South Korean delegation heads to Iran over seized oil tanker

SEOUL, Jan 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A South Korean delegation left for Iran onThursday to negotiate the early release of an oil tanker and its crew seizedin strategic Gulf waters this week. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it had seized the South Korean-flagged Hankuk Chemi — which it said was carrying 7,200…
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