Guadalajara, Mexico, Mar 1 (EFE).- Hundreds of American white pelicans travel thousands of kilometers (miles) from the far north to settle in the welcoming warm waters of Lake Chapala and Cajititlan Lagoon in the eastern Mexican state of Jalisco. Between November and April, these birds flee the intense cold of the United States and Canada …
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United Nations, Feb 28 (EFE).- The United States and Russia clashed again over Venezuela in the UN Security Council on Thursday, as Moscow vetoed a US resolution recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s legitimate president, while an opposing Russian draft fell far short of garnering enough votes to pass. Nine of the 15 …
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Redacción Internacional, 1 mar (EFE).- Son supervivientes de algunas de las circunstancias más trágicas que le pueden ocurrir a un ser humano: han sido abandonados, expuestos al miedo, explotados y testigos de atrocidades, son los “niños del califato” y nadie quiere hacerse cargo de ellos. Miles de menores que han vivido en el autoproclamado califato …
Bogota, March 1 (EFE).- Colombian Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez said here Friday that the inadequacy of social protection for women in Latin American is “really worrying” and she urged countries in the region to implement new public policies. “There is much work to be done defining public social security policies to ensure that the …
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Washington, Mar 1 (EFE).- The president of the United States on Friday said that he and the leader of North Korea had held substantive negotiations this week in Vietnam even though their second summit ended abruptly without a joint agreement. Donald Trump made the remarks on Twitter after talks in Hanoi with Kim Jong-un aimed …
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Naciones Unidas, 1 mar (EFE).- Unicef advirtió este viernes del aumento de los casos de sarampión a “niveles alarmantes” en todo el mundo y subrayó que casi el 75 % de la subida total se registró en diez países, entre ellos Brasil, Yemen, Filipinas, Ucrania y Madagascar. El Fondo de la ONU para la infancia …
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Buenos Aires, Mar 1 (EFE).– Argentine President Mauricio Macri announced Friday before Congress an end to impunity in his country and that, if the judiciary so requires, all citizens including the head of state and his family must give an accounting of their finances. “Impunity is over and in that sense we’re doing better than …
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Miami, 1 mar (EFE).- La compañía SpaceX lanzará este sábado desde Cabo Cañaveral (Florida) una cápsula no tripulada con destino a la Estación Espacial Internacional (EEI) que tiene como objetivo demostrar la capacidad de la empresa para enviar al espacio módulos con astronautas. La Demo Mission-1 (DM-1) es un “vuelo de prueba sin tripulación a …
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Asuncion, Mar 1 (EFE).- The speaker of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled legislature, who faces possible arrest if he returns to his homeland, was received Friday with head-of-state honors on a visit to Paraguay. Juan Guaido, who proclaimed himself Venezuela’s interim president last month and has been recognized as such by the United States and around 50 other …
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Mexico City, Feb 28 (EFE).- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador presented Thursday a plan to guarantee rights and protection for the estimated 11.3 million Mexicans living in the United States, nearly half of them without documents. During his daily morning press conference, the president emphasized the need to give “support to our migrant compatriots.” …