An empty street near the Capitol in Havana in May. The Trump administration plans to designate Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism five years after it was removed from that U.S. list. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images Updated at 4:25 p.m. ET The Trump administration is designating Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism…
ARGENTINA has suspended sales of corn for export until February 28, the agriculture ministry said, announcing the surprise move as part of the government’s effort to ensure ample domestic food supplies. According to Reuters, the move by the world’s No. 3 corn supplier was a sign of tightening global food supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic….
Vaccinations are conducted at the Community Health Service Center in Enshi city, Hubei Province on 30 December 2020. Source: AAP A year on after the first global cases of COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan, a number of countries have already begun implementing mass vaccination programs. Around 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their…
Amna Nawaz: Now to Venezuela and the ongoing struggle for power amid a growing humanitarian crisis. Next week, a new Parliament is set to be sworn in, after members of the opposition boycotted elections earlier this month. That leaves opposition leader Juan Guaido in an even more precarious position and the country with an uncertain…
Journalists protest the murder of their colleague Maria Helena Ferral at Lerdo square in Xalapa, Veracruz state, Mexico, on April 1, 2020. (AFP/Hector Quintanar) Retaliatory killings of journalists worldwide rose significantly in 2020 from the previous year, but deaths covering war dropped sharply. A CPJ special report by Jennifer Dunham December 22, 2020 NEW YORK The…
FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Treasury building is seen in Washington WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury labeled Switzerland and Vietnam as currency manipulators on Wednesday and added three new names to a watch list of countries it suspects of taking measures to devalue their currencies against the dollar. In what may be one of the…
Caracas, Dec 12 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela is moving today towards setting up a new National Assembly (unicameral Parliament), in a scenario marked by the categorical triumph of the Great Patriotic Pole in the recent legislative elections. The National Electoral Council (CNE) accredited the deputies elected last December 6, who will take office on January…
Faced with a choice between much of the country and Cristina, Alberto let the moment pass and concentrated on trying to convince her he was as loyal a vassal as any mortal could conceivably be. ALBERTO FERNANDEZ AND CRISTINA KIRCHNER. | PRESIDENCY Is Argentina the worst governed country in the world? Probably not; in Africa,…
But masks are still likely to prevent infected people from transmitting the virus. (Salvatore Laporta/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) The urgency of trying to control the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred public health researchers to search for evidence-based measures that might work to protect the public from becoming infected. Non-pharmaceutical interventions have ranged from hard lockdowns to recommendations on social…
Everyone has a right to dissent from the epidemiologists’ contentment with the way things are now. (Esther19775 | Dreamstime.com) The New York Times asked 700 epidemiologists to describe their COVID-19 habits, how their thinking has changed since the pandemic began, and when they think it will be safe for normal life to resume. Dismayingly, several answered that…