Quito, March 20 (RHC)-- In Ecuador’s Amazon region, hundreds of families were left homeless this week as extreme weather swelled the Bobonaza River basin, washing away homes, schools, crops, animals and a bridge in the Sarayaku community. ... More
Washington, March 20 (RHC)-- In climate news, newly released data from NASA shows Greenland lost a record 600 billion tons of ice during an exceptionally warm summer in 2019, surpassing the previous record melt set in 2012. ... More
New York, March 20 (RHC)-- In Queens, New York, Amazon employees shut down a fulfillment center after a worker tested positive for COVID-19. The confirmed case came two days after 1,500 Amazon workers around the world called publicly for Amazon to adopt stronger safety measures. In Brooklyn, employees of the retail store Art To Frames held a protest outside their shop yesterday to demand more protections.... More
New York, March 20 (RHC)-- Economists at Goldman Sachs have estimated that some 2.25 million Americans filed for their first week of unemployment benefits this week — the fastest rush of jobless claims in U.S. history. ... More
Newark, March 20 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of New Jersey, a medical worker at the Elizabeth Immigration Detention Center has tested positive for COVID-19 and has entered self-quarantine. Officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement said one other ICE employee had tested positive elsewhere in the U.S., though the agency declined to say where. ... More
Atlanta, March 20 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Georgia, all 236 state legislators have been urged to self-isolate for weeks, after a state senator disclosed he tested positive for COVID-19. ... More
Havana, March 20 (RHC) Cuban Health Minister, Dr. José Angel Portal Miranda, confirmed that after the tests carried out this Friday, the number of COVID-19 cases increased by 5, bringing to 21 the number of infected people on the island.... More
Havana, March 20 (RHC)-- Cuba announced on Friday a set of measures aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the national territory, which includes border restrictions, and stopping the entry of tourists.... More
Havana, March 20 (RHC)-- Representatives of Cuba and Namibia ratified on Friday the political will to continue strengthening bilateral ties, during the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the independence of that African country and the establishment of diplomatic relations.... More
Havana, March 20 (RHC) A U.S. patient confirmed with COVID-19 was evacuated this Friday in good general condition, along with his wife, reported Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs.... More
“Cuba has all the resources to treat patients from the moment they’re identified as suspected cases of the new coronavirus,” health authorities said Friday.... More
Tehran, March 20 (RHC)-- Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says U.S. sanctions and pressures have failed to force the Iranian nation to give in to Washington’s excessive demands. “The harshest ever sanctions were imposed against our nation [last year] by global terrorists,” Rouhani said on Friday morning in a message to Iranians on the occasion of New Year.... More
Geneva, March 20 (RHC)-- Fears are growing for millions of refugees living in overcrowded and unsanitary camps around the world, including one million South Sudanese and Congolese refugees in Uganda, tens of thousands of Central Americans in Mexico near the U.S. border, and some 1 million Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh. ... More
Sacramento, March 20 (RHC)-- In the United States, where confirmed coronavirus cases have doubled over the past two days, California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered all of California — 40 million residents — to remain at home, effective immediately. ... More
Bogota, March 20 (RHC)-- Colombia will block entry to everyone traveling from abroad from midnight on Monday to control the spread of coronavirus, President Ivan Duque has announced, under pressure domestically to react efficiently to the global pandemic.... More
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