Category: Americas

Issued on: 08/05/2020 – 02:39Modified: 08/05/2020 – 02:39 The woman who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 called on him to drop out of the US presidential race, saying Thursday she’d take a polygraph about the alleged encounter if he would. Tara Reade said in March that Biden, the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, […]

Issued on: 07/05/2020 – 10:21Modified: 07/05/2020 – 10:21 Before coronavirus struck New York, one of the world’s premier seafood restaurants Le Bernardin was offering tasting menus including striped bass truffle tartare and grilled lobster mi-cuit.   Today it serves up hundreds of plastic trays of roast chicken, rice and cabbage to feed the city’s medical workers.Eric […]

Issued on: 07/05/2020 – 06:21Modified: 07/05/2020 – 06:20 Chancellor Angela Merkel announced steps on Wednesday to ease the coronavirus lockdown in Germany but at the same time launched an “emergency brake” mechanism allowing for renewed restrictions in case infections pick up again. Declaring an end to the first phase of the pandemic in Germany, Merkel said there was […]

Issued on: 07/05/2020 – 02:37Modified: 07/05/2020 – 02:37 Venezuela will try two Americans allegedly captured during a failed raid by mercenaries, President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday as the US vowed to “use every tool available” to bring them home. Venezuela announced on Monday that it had arrested the pair on suspicion of trying to topple Maduro in […]

Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 23:38Modified: 07/05/2020 – 00:34 US President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed what he called a “very insulting” congressional resolution seeking to limit his war powers in Iran. In a statement, Trump said he had used his veto because the resolution —  a rare bipartisan rebuke to the president approved in March — […]

Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 10:34Modified: 06/05/2020 – 10:34 The mayor of Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon rainforest region, asked world leaders Tuesday for help fighting the novel coronavirus, which has brought his city’s health system to the brink of collapse. Manaus is the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, which has been […]

Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 09:26Modified: 06/05/2020 – 09:26 In hard-hit New York, thousands of people have joined a rent strike movement dubbed #CancelRent as the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread. They’re now calling for a nationwide strike on the same theme. FRANCE 24 reports from New York City. When the landlord […]

Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 05:21 Without wearing a face-covering himself, President Donald Trump toured a new medical mask factory in Arizona on Tuesday, taking a rare trip out of Washington to visit a state he hopes to win in the November election even as Americans avoid travel to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Touching down in […]

Issued on: 06/05/2020 – 03:57 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has had a series of health scares, underwent non-surgical treatment for a gallbladder condition on Tuesday and is “resting comfortably,” a court spokeswoman said. Ginsburg, 87, had a gallstone that had caused an infection and was treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital in […]

Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 18:01Modified: 05/05/2020 – 18:01 President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied any involvement by the U.S. government in what Venezuelan officials have called a failed armed incursion in the South American country that led to the capture of two American “mercenaries.”  Trump made the comment to reporters at the White House after […]

Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 08:04Modified: 05/05/2020 – 08:04 Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said authorities arrested two U.S. citizens among a group of “mercenaries” on Monday, a day after a beach raid purportedly aimed at capturing the socialist leader that authorities say they foiled. Maduro held up a pair of blue U.S. passports, reading off the […]

Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 08:45Modified: 05/05/2020 – 08:45 The World Health Organization said Monday that Washington had provided no evidence to support “speculative” claims by the US president that the new coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab. “We have not received any data or specific evidence from the United States government relating to the purported […]

Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 04:33 The New York Times picked up the most awards as the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced virtually on Monday owing to the coronavirus outbreak. Prize board administrator Dana Canedy declared the winners from her living room via a livestream on YouTube rather than at a ceremony at New York’s Columbia University.The […]

Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 00:52 Peru’s opposition leader Keiko Fujimori was released on Monday from a 15-month pre-trial detention on corruption charges after just three months, an AFP reporter witnessed. Fujimori, who left the woman’s prison in the capital Lima on bail wearing a face mask and white gloves, had earlier announced on Twitter that […]

Issued on: 05/05/2020 – 01:02 A new forecast projects nearly 135,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States through the beginning of August mainly due to reopening measures under way, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington said on Monday. The forecast U.S. death toll through early August […]

Issued on: 04/05/2020 – 07:39Modified: 04/05/2020 – 07:39 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attacked Congress and the courts in a speech to hundreds of supporters on Sunday as the number of coronavirus cases blew past 100,000 in Brazil, underlining the former army captain’s increasing isolation as he downplays the impacts of the pandemic. The right-wing Bolsonaro […]

Issued on: 04/05/2020 – 03:37 Venezuela’s government said it foiled a marine incursion on Sunday by “terrorist mercenaries” who attempted to enter the country on speedboats from neighboring Colombia, which opposition leaders dismissed as a staged incident. President Nicolas Maduro frequently accuses political adversaries of attempting to overthrow him with the backing of Washington, which […]

Issued on: 04/05/2020 – 03:46 President Donald Trump relaunched his election campaign Sunday with a live television event inside the iconic Lincoln Memorial, promising an early coronavirus vaccine and urging Americans to put the pandemic behind them to embrace an “incredible” future. With the two-hour long Fox News “town hall,” Trump sought to wrap himself […]

Issued on: 03/05/2020 – 17:00Modified: 03/05/2020 – 17:00 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday there was “enormous evidence” that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, echoing a claim made by President Donald Trump earlier this week.  “There is enormous evidence that this is where it began,” the US secretary […]

Issued on: 02/05/2020 – 15:41Modified: 02/05/2020 – 16:37 When they saw pictures of health workers in their city struggling with a lack of protective gear, a trio of fashion designers from New York’s famed garment district stitched together a plan to help out.The designers, who work for haute couture label Oscar de la Renta, launched their own […]

Issued on: 02/05/2020 – 06:53Modified: 02/05/2020 – 06:53 Protesters marched in several cities across California on Friday demanding the easing of restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak and denouncing Governor Gavin Newsom’s decision to shut down some beaches. The protests were taking place in at least 11 cities, including the capital Sacramento as well as […]

Issued on: 02/05/2020 – 07:38Modified: 02/05/2020 – 07:38 A riot erupted at a prison in central Venezuela on Friday, killing at least 40 people and injuring 50 more, including a National Guard officer who was wounded by an explosion and the warden, who suffered a knife wound, authorities said. The upheaval at the Llanos Penitentiary […]

Issued on: 02/05/2020 – 03:44Modified: 02/05/2020 – 03:44 Top U.S. health official Anthony Fauci will not testify next week to a congressional committee examining the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the White House said on Friday, calling it “counterproductive” to have individuals involved in the response testify. The White House issued an emailed statement after […]

Issued on: 01/05/2020 – 22:58Modified: 01/05/2020 – 22:59 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted authorisation to Gilead Sciences Inc. for emergency use of its experimental antiviral drug remdesivir to treat patients with Covid-19, President Donald Trump announced on Friday.  US medical officials have announced evidence from a trial that remdesivir helped patients with […]

Issued on: 01/05/2020 – 21:24Modified: 01/05/2020 – 21:24 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday announced an immediate ban on military-grade assault weapons, responding to a mass shooting and arson spree that left 22 people dead earlier this month. “These weapons were designed for one purpose, and one purpose only: to kill the largest number […]

A US study published this week raised great hope for the effectiveness of the antiviral drug remdesivir for the treatment of patients with Covid-19. But results of a similar study in China seemed to show the opposite. Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a prominent […]

Issued on: 01/05/2020 – 15:26Modified: 01/05/2020 – 15:26 US presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday emphatically denied sexually assaulting a former staffer, saying the incident she claims occurred 27 years ago “never happened.” “They aren’t true. This never happened,” Biden said in a statement regarding the accusations made by Tara Reade, a former staffer in […]