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United Nations (EFE).- United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called on Tuesday for the strengthening of the anti-gang mission in Haiti after the Security Council extended its mandate for six months. Guterres’s spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, explained during his daily press briefing that the Security Council approved the proposal to extend the...
By Ana Báez Mexico City (EFE).- Ninety years after the push for abortion decriminalization began in Mexico, a small group of women gathered on Monday in the capital to call for unity within a fragmented feminist movement. They warned that reproductive rights remain a privilege and noted that «the far...
Madrid, Sep 28 (EFE).- Hundreds of people camped out in Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol square, as many others joined in demonstrations in other cities on Monday, to protest the housing crisis in Spain, as they await a vote by the Council of Ministers on a housing decree that has...
| Por Hernán Bahos Ruiz | Redacción Deportes (EFE).- Diez selecciones de América entraron en acción con partidos amistosos que marcan el comienzo de un objetivo común, el recambio generacional, pero han mostrado que el camino hasta la meta será largo y complejo. 🇨🇱 – Chile reaparece con derrota 🟢...
Bilbao (EFE).- La Premio Nobel de la Paz en 1992 por su defensa de los derechos humanos y los pueblos indígenas, Rigoberta Menchú, pide a la juventud «tomar el relevo» en esa lucha para tratar de mejorar el mundo, que actúen contra las injusticias porque «el involucramiento ciudadano es más...
Cairo (EFE).- Naim Qassem, the leader of Hezbollah, reaffirmed on Sunday that the Lebanese movement will not disarm until Israeli troops withdraw from the occupied areas in southern Lebanon as part of their ground offensive launched after the outbreak of war in the country on Mar. 2. «We support the...
By Santi Sánchez Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, Romania, Sep 27 (EFE).- At 2 a.m. on Aug. 16, the words “alpha scramble” jolted two Spanish F-18 pilots from standby duty at Romania’s Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base, on the Black Sea coast just a few kilometers from Ukraine. Unlike the daily drills...
Bangkok, Sep 27 (EFE).- Bangkok remained on alert Sunday after heavy rains flooded large parts of the Thai capital, prompting authorities to declare a disaster in all 50 districts and order schools to close as more rain was forecast. Nearly 300 millimeters of rain fell across Bangkok over 48 hours,...
Beijing, Sep 27 (EFE).- Giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang left China on Sunday for the United States, where they will begin a 10-year stay at Zoo Atlanta under a scientific cooperation agreement that continues Beijing’s long-running “panda diplomacy.” The pair, both born in 2020 at the Chengdu Research...
New York, Sep 26 (EFE).- A powerful coastal storm caused widespread flooding along the US Northeast on Saturday, as heavy rain, strong winds and high surf coincided with high tides, leaving millions of people under weather alerts from North Carolina to Massachusetts. The National Weather Service (NWS) said the low-pressure...
Beijing, Sep 27 (EFE).- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday that President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington and his meeting with US President Donald Trump sent a “positive signal” of rapprochement, peaceful coexistence, and mutual benefit, describing the talks as a continuation of the leaders’ meeting in Beijing in...
By Rostyslav Averchuk Lviv (EFE).- Ukraine’s metallurgy industry has halted production for the first time since WW2 after a series of Russian missile strikes and blocked export routes pushed one of the country’s key sectors, which accounted for around 6% of GDP and 6.2 billion dollars of export earnings in...
