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By Manuel Ayala Tijuana, Mexico, Jul 28 (EFE) – Migrant families with children, frustrated by their inability to schedule asylum appointments via a United States government app, are increasingly making desperate attempts to cross the border from Mexico, civil organizations say. Over the past week, two dangerous situations in the...
By Ana de Leon Panama City, Jul 28 (EFE).- The world’s strictest abortion laws are found in the countries of Central America, where women can face long prison sentences if convicted of deliberately ending their pregnancies. And even in cases of miscarriages or stillbirths, women can be accused of killing...
By Genesis Carrero Soto Caracas, Jul 28 (EFE) – With pension income of no more than $5 a month and other retirement payouts also woefully insufficient, older adults in Venezuela have been forced to return to the workforce out of pure necessity. If not, they would have no means of...
Beirut, July 28 (EFE).- An explosion near a Shia Muslim shrine, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, has killed at least six people, as reported by the state-run news agency on Friday. The explosive device was hidden in a motorcycle and detonated near al-Sudan Street in the al-Sayeda Zainab suburb...
By Yemeli Ortega Demonstrators block a road as protests continue across the country as the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, passed a bill that would limit the Supreme Court’s powers, Jerusalem, 24 July 2023. EFE/EPA/ABIR SULTAN Jerusalem, Jul 28 (EFE).- Tens of thousands of flower-clad women waving pink-hued Israeli flags have...
Manila/Beijing, Jul 28 (EFE).- At least 13 people died due to Typhoon Doksuri’s passage through the Philippines, which on Friday reached China, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council. The typhoon, called Egay in the Philippines, hit the north of the island of Luzon, where the capital...
London, July 27 (EFE).- Hundreds of people attended a private event Thursday night in the British capital to pay tribute to late Irish singer Sinead O’Connor. The event took place at the London Irish Centre in the borough of Camden, where artists and friends paid tribute to O’Connor with musical...
By David Toro Escobar Guatemala City, July 27 (EFE).- In 2015, Samuel Perez and Andrea Reyes, then students at a Jesuit university in this capital, were among the thousands of mainly young Guatemalans who gathered outside Congress to protest corruption in the administration of President Otto Perez Molina. Eight years...
By Javier Picazo Feliu Madrid, Jul 27 (EFE).- Improved fitness, stress reduction and the challenge of vertical problem-solving are some of the key benefits of climbing, a sport that is trending upward in big Spanish cities and has soared in popularity with the opening of new privately run facilities. The...
Kabul, Jul 27 (EFE).- A high-level Taliban government delegation will meet with representatives of the United States later this week in Doha to hold talks on issues of mutual interest, a Taliban spokesperson said on Thursday. Patel said that the «egregious human rights abuses,» marginalization of women and girls (by...
Nairobi, Jul 27 (EFE).- Cases of litigation related to climate change around the world have more than doubled in five years, with more people turning to courts to combat the climate crisis and hold governments and corporations accountable, the United Nations said in a report on Thursday. The ‘Global Climate...
Niamey, July 27 (EFE).- Niger’s ousted President Mohamed Bazoum Thursday called for the protection of the hard-won “democratic achievements” of the Western African nation after the military announced a coup on national TV. Coup leaders have held Bazoum in the Presidential Palace since early on Wednesday. «The hard-won gains will...
