OCHA/Gemma Cortes – Dioximar Guevara lives with her five children in San Felix, a slum of Puerto Ordaz, the main city in Bolívar, Venezuela, where poverty runs deep. United Nations independent experts demanded on Wednesday that the Venezuelan Government take … Read More
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro – REUTERS It’s come to this: Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is now sending a good chunk of the nation’s gold to Iran in exchange for help propping up the decrepit oil industry. At least nine tons … Read More
Photo: CATHERINE LAI /AFP / TNS Government Technology Agency (GovTech) staff demonstrate Singapore’s new contact-tracing smartphone app called TraceTogether, as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus in Singapore on March 20. The mobile app using Bluetooth technology developed by … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, We were warned that hospitals would be overrun. They were sure to run out of ventilators, if not hospital beds. Car companies were recruited to manufacture ventilators instead of cars. Now nobody knows what to do with … Read More
Authorities in Afghanistan warn more than 7 million people still at risk as 56 people die from severe flooding. ANKARA The fourth month of 2020 saw numerous environmental disasters that impaired climate change and vice versa, including severe flooding in … Read More
PUERTO ORDAZ/MARACAIBO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelans reported paying above $2 per liter ($7.57 per gallon) for gasoline last week amid fuel shortages, one of the world’s highest rates and a dramatic reversal for an OPEC nation that long boasted of … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, Believe it or not, there is some news that’s not related to the media’s obsession with the latest “gift” from China. Reeling from fears of the sickness and reactions to heavy-handed orders that sometimes defy common sense, … Read More