A member of the Brazilian Armed Forces medical team examines a man from the Indigenous Yanomami ethnic group BRASILIA, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed provisions of a law that obligated the federal government to provide drinking water, disinfectants and a guarantee of hospital beds to indigenous…

Peru’s air force locates 7 victims of helicopter crash LIMA, July 9 (NNN-Xinhua) — Peru’s Air Force (FAP) said it located the remains of seven people whose MI-17 military helicopter disappeared over the Peruvian Amazon on Tuesday. After resuming the search and rescue operation earlier in the day, the FAP found…

LIMA, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra on Wednesday called a general election for April 11 of next year when he will step down as his country’s leader. His announcement formally marks the beginning of the process to hold presidential and legislative elections. “Fulfilling my commitment, here is…

WASHINGTON, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States topped three million confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday as President Donald Trump pushed for schools to re-open amid a COVID-19 resurgence in many southern hotspots. The US remains by far the worst affected country, with over 132,000 deaths, while Brazil — whose virus-skeptic…

WASHINGTON, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus, on Tuesday posted 60,209 new cases, a record for a 24-hour period, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. The country was just shy of three million cases, at 2,991,351, the Baltimore-based university said…

WASHINGTON, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico’s leader is paying his first foreign visit Wednesday in the unlikeliest of circumstances — in the midst of the raging coronavirus pandemic to see US President Donald Trump, who has disparaged his country. A left-wing populist, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in…

GENEVA/BRASILIA, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) –– The World Health Organization sent its best wishes to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after he was diagnosed with the coronavirus, saying it “brings home the reality of this virus. “No-one is special in that regard: we are all potentially exposed,” WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan…

WASHINGTON, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US announced it was providing $1.6 billion in funding for the development and manufacture of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate produced by biotech firm Novavax, the largest amount awarded under Operation Warp Speed. Separately, the US also said it was providing $450 million to Regeneron…

WASHINGTON, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) — President Donald Trump said he disagrees with the assessment of the country’s top immunologist, Anthony Fauci, on the dire situation the United States faces as cases of the novel coronavirus continue to spread. “The current state is really not good,” the highly respected Fauci, head…