Brazilian Armed Forces medical team examines a man from the indigenous Yanomami ethnic group.  (Photo: Adriano Machado/ Reuters)

Brasilia, July 4 (RHC)-- Brazil reported 42,223 additional coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said, bringing the total tally to 1,539,081.  ... More


Paris, July 4 (RHC)-- Air France management said it planned to eliminate 7,580 jobs at the airline and its regional unit Hop! by the end of 2022 because of the coronavirus crisis.... More


Mexico City, July 4 (RHC)-- To eliminate the risk of contagion carried by human beings, a Mexican company has launched a drone delivery service to get clean medical supplies to hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic.... More


Havana, July 4 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has highlighted the joint effort of science and the government in the fight against COVID-19.... More


Madrid, July 4 (RHC)-- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said fiscal reform was "inevitable" if Spain was to deal with the economic crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, pointing to tax hikes, notably for larger companies.... More


Buenos Aires, July 4 (RHC)-- Former Argentinean president Carlos Menem was admitted to hospital again suffering from breathing difficulties, family sources told the local press.... More


Dhaka, July 4 (RHC)-- Bangladesh shut its loss-making jute mills and laid off 25,000 employees, saying the state-owned plants could not compete with the private sector.... More


Lima, July 4 (RHC)-- Peru's COVID-19 death toll rose to 10,045 on Thursday, the health ministry said, a day after the Latin American nation began easing a lockdown in a bid to revive the economy.... More


London, July 4 (RHC)-- The British government said it is scrapping a 14-day quarantine rule for arrivals from a number of countries deemed "lower risk" for the coronavirus, including France, Spain, Germany and Italy.... More


Washington, July 4 (RHC)-- The United States reported more than 55,000 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the largest single-day increase any country has ever reported, according to a Reuters report.... More


Austin, July 4 (RHC)-- Greg Abbott, the governor of the U.S. state of Texas, ordered that face coverings must be worn in public across most of the state.... More


Havana, July 4 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were eight new cases detected of COVID-19, for a total of 2,369 positive cases across the island. ... More


In the United States, Major League Baseball has cancelled this year's All-Star Game -- the first time in 75 years.  And according to reports, Dodger Stadium's 40-year wait to host the All-Star Game is going to last even longer.... More


Havana, July 4 (RHC)-- President Miguel Díaz-Canel highlighted this Saturday the failure of the maneuver against Cuba carried out at the 44th Ordinary Session of the UN Human Rights Council.... More


Jairo Rodriguez, Cuba's representative in Geneva, Human Rights Council

Geneva, July 3 (RHC)-- Cuba denounced this Friday in Geneva the lack of representation of Ariel Ruiz Urquiola to speak before the 44th ordinary session of the UN Human Rights Council on behalf of the NGO Engineers of the World and rejected as slanderous his words against the Cuban medical missions abroad.... More


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