COVID-19 Daily Deaths In Brazil Rise For Fourth Day In A Row

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 19 (NNN-CMA) – The number of daily COVID-19 deaths has been rising in Brazil for the fourth consecutive day yesterday, the Ministry of Health said. The ministry reported 140 deaths on Sunday, 216 on Monday, 685 on Tuesday, and 756 yesterday, raising the COVID-19 death toll…

Three Killed In Ecuador Mine Collapse

QUITO, Nov 19 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – An illegal coal mine collapsed in a landslide, in north-western Ecuador, killing at least three people, the country’s disaster relief agency said today. Three people were rescued, and another two are still missing, said the National Risk and Emergency Management Service. The collapse happened…

Argentina Reports 10,332 New COVID-19 Cases

BUENOS AIRES, Nov 19 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Argentine Ministry of Health, yesterday reported 10,332 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, taking the national count to 1,339,337. The ministry said, 241 more patients died of the disease, bringing the nationwide death toll to 36,347. A total of 1,156,474 people…

APEC needs to prioritise climate change, environment preservation

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 (NNN-NNN) — Climate change and preservation of the environment should be among the priorities of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) from now on, said APEC CEO Dialogues Malaysia 2020 chair Datuk Ruben Emir Gnanalingam. In making the call at the opening of the two-day virtual dialogues, he…

U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Top 250,000 — Johns Hopkins University

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) – U.S. COVID-19 deaths surpassed 250,000 yesterday, according to the Centre for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. With the national caseload topping 11.4 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 250,029, as of 5:25 p.m. local time (2225…

Palestinians Demonstrate Against Pompeo’s Upcoming Visit To Israeli Settlement

RAMALLAH, Nov 19 (NNN-WAFA) – Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated yesterday, against the upcoming visit of U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. During the demonstration, in the West Bank city of al-Bireh near Ramallah, participants waved Palestinian flags and held banners in English…

Russia defends Azerbaijan-Armenia deal over Karabakh conflict after France criticism

Nagorno-Karabakh’s main town, Stepanakert, would have been captured by Azerbaijani forces had a peace deal not been signed, Armenia’s Prime Minister  MOSCOW, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian President Vladimir Putin defended a ceasefire deal he brokered between Azerbaijan and Armenia after France called for him to fix “ambiguities” in the text.…

Brazil is emerging as the world’s leading offshore oil producer

BRASILIA, Nov 18 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Sharply weaker oil prices, the COVID-19 pandemic, and heightened geopolitical uncertainty have done little to blunt Brazil’s epic offshore oil boom. By September 2020 Brazil had soared to be the third-largest supplier of crude oil to China, the world’s second-largest economy. The scale of Brazil’s…

Colombia requests more time to complete removal of landmines in accordance with the Ottawa Treaty

BOGOTA, Nov 18 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Colombia has requested a more than four-year extension under the Ottawa Treaty for removing landmines from across the country, the High Peace Commissioner’s office said. If the request is granted, Colombia will have until the end of 2025 to remove anti-personnel landmines from its territory.…

Update: Iota, weakened but deadly, rips through Central America

TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Storm Iota has killed at least nine people as it smashed homes, uprooted trees and swamped roads during its destructive advance across Central America, just two weeks after Hurricane Eta devastated parts of the region. Iota, which made landfall in Nicaragua as a “catastrophic” Category…
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