International

United Nations, Mar 22 (EFE).- Nearly 600 million children, one in four worldwide, will live in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040, according to a report released late Tuesday by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF). UNICEF warned of the threat to children’s lives due to the lack of safe water …

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Apartado, Colombia, Mar 21 (EFE).- Growing along with the bunches of bananas in the plantations of Uraba in northwestern Colombia are the hopes of a region that is working to erase once and for all the stigma of violence by raising the brand image of its bananas to the status of Colombian coffee. The Banana …

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Lima, Mar 20 (EFE).- The intense rains in recent days have increased the water flow in the Amazon River, which passes through Peru’s northern jungle, to a critical level which will probably cause flooding in the city of Iquitos and several districts in Maynas province, according to Peru’s Senamhi national weather service. Given the weather …

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El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores del Perú ha tomado una serie de medidas para hacer llegar ayuda del exterior a los damnificados por las lluvias de “El Niño Costero” en nuestro país. A continuación, cómo apoyar desde otras partes del mundo. “El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores ha dispuesto que nuestras Embajadas y Consulados, distribuidos en todos los …

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By Irene Escudero La Paz, Mar 18 (EFE).- A little Bolivian boy discovered technology by chance when he broke a toy car and now, with a mixture of curiosity, passion and hard work, has succeeded in building his own robotic hand with a 3D printer. “I threw a rock and broke the car” and saw …

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Lima, Mar 17 (EFE).- The Peruvian government is ready to devote 2.5 billion soles ($764 million) to the response to deadly flooding that has affected more than 62,000 people, President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said Friday. He told a press conference that he planned to enact an emergency decree more than doubling the budget for dealing …

Peru earmarks $764 mn for flood relief Read More »

Santiago de Chile, Mar 12 (EFE).- Chilean authorities on Sunday declared a red alert for the cities of Vina del Mar and Valparaiso due to a wildfire that has so far destroyed 250 hectares of grassland and scrubland, leaving 284,000 people without electricity in eight municipalities. The Mayor of Valparaiso Gabriel Aldoney announced on Sunday …

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Guatemala City, Mar 10 (EFE).- Guatemala’s president said Friday that the government bore partial responsibility for the deaths of 37 girls in a fire at a crowded state-run children’s shelter but cautioned that the tragedy should not be labeled a state crime. Jimmy Morales made his remarks at a press conference after visiting a hospital …

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Lima, Mar 6 (EFE).- Peru’s anti-corruption prosecutor’s office on Monday took new steps in the probe into the bribery scandal involving Brazil’s Odebrecht construction company by asking the Attorney General’s Office to investigate former President Alan Garcia and current President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for alleged irregularities. The state corruptio+n attorney for the Odebrecht case, Katherine …

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