شهدت بعض دول قارة أمريكا اللاتينية، عددا من الأحداث منها المظاهرات التي خرجت في السلفادور ضد رئيس البلاد نجيب بوكيلة، فيما شهدت فنزويلا، مظاهرة دعما ل أليكس صعب، مبعوث الرئيس الفنزويلي نيكولاس مادورو، والذي سلمته سلطات الرأس الأخضر إلى (...)
Two games into World Cup qualifying, a rebuilt U.S. soccer team is in trouble.
Three starters are hurt. Key midfielder Weston McKennie didn't dress because he violated team COVID protocols.
Unable to break down a Canadian team that sat back with (...)
Winning home games is the key to World Cup qualifying, and the Americans go into Sunday night's match against visiting Canada uncertain whether star attacker Christian Pulisic will be available and knowing No. 1 goalkeeper Zack Steffen remains (...)
Star attacker Christian Pulisic and goalkeeper Zack Steffen will miss the Americans' opening World Cup qualifier at El Salvador on Thursday night, two major absences as the United States tries to rebound from its failure to qualify for the 2018 (...)
After a difficult period in the crypto currency market around the world, and the painful blows to the bitcoin currency due to Elon Musk's tweets, which negatively affected the largest and most valuable cryptocurrency in the crypto currency market, (...)
In only a couple of years or so, central banks worldwide will start issuing digital currencies that we will carry in digital wallets on our mobile phones. Tangible paper and metal currencies will disappear.
But whatever shape and form money comes (...)
American winger Gio Reyna missed Borussia Dortmund's exhibition against Athletic Bilbao because of a thigh injury sustained during warmups.
Dortmund said the injury was slight and the 18-year-old was replaced by Goktan Gurpuz in the starting lineup (...)
President Joe Biden is expected to fall short of his commitment to shipping 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June because of regulatory and other hurdles, officials said as they announced new plans Monday for sharing the shots (...)
Vice President Kamala Harris told Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday that the United States and Mexico are ``embarking on a new era'' during her first in-person meeting with the leader, as she seeks to foster greater (...)
There are a number of existential issues directly related to the survival of humankind. One is the question of war and peace. The general belief is that progress and the equilibrium between instruments of war and peace have generated conditions (...)
Within weeks of Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, the Biden administration had reversed many of the most maligned Trump-era immigration policies, including deporting children seeking asylum who arrived alone at the U.S.-Mexico border and forcing migrants (...)
Due to international pressure, many developing and developed States have shown a universal commitment to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which encompasses 17 SDGs including SDG 5--realizing gender equality.
Part of advancing gender (...)
After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States.
``It seems the new president wants to help migrants,'' (...)
U.S. President Joe Biden is proposing to raise refugee admissions this year to 62,500 from the record-low 15,000 set by his predecessor Donald Trump.
U.S. State Department officials are expected to meet this week with key lawmakers in a formal (...)
Hundreds of Honduran migrants huddled overnight on a highway in eastern Guatemala after domestic security forces used sticks and tear gas to halt the passage of a U.S.-bound caravan just days before U.S. President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
As (...)
India on Friday became the fourth country to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, authorising the vaccine's rollout in coming weeks in the country with the second highest number of infections.
The following (...)
El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have brought criminal charges against more than 700 members of cross-border criminal organizations, primarily the MS-13 and 18th Street gangs, in a U.S.-assisted effort, the U.S. Department of Justice said on (...)
President Donald Trump finalized his plan in a memo overnight and said the ceiling for fiscal 2021, which started this month, includes 6,000 unused placements from last year "that might have been used if not for the COVID-19 pandemic."
The (...)
Having taken part in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games while on the Egyptian taekwondo team, Abeer Essawi officially became an “Olympian”, thus winning a seat on the executive board of the World Olympians Association (WOA), writes Inas Mazhar.
According (...)
Having taken part in the Athens 2004 Olympic Games while on the Egyptian taekwondo team, Abeer Essawi officially became an “Olympian”, thus winning a seat on the executive board of the World Olympians Association (WOA), writes Inas Mazhar.
According (...)
Russia's sovereign wealth fund and its partner Chemrar will supply the COVID-19 drug Avifavir to 17 additional countries, the fund said in a statement on Thursday.
Avifavir gained approval from the Russian health ministry in May and is based on (...)
The draw that will pit the teams of the Men's Handball World Championship in their respective groups in Egypt will take place on 5 September at the new Museum of Civilisation in Cairo.
According to head of the organising committee Hussein Labib, the (...)
The U.S. State Department and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention on Thursday lifted global advisories recommending U.S. citizens avoid all international travel because of the coronavirus pandemic, and instead issued a raft of (...)
Foreign holdings of Egyptian sovereign debt rose to $10.6 billion by the end of June, and the first two weeks of July saw another $3 bn of inflows to local debt, Bloomberg reports, citing an unnamed Egyptian officials.
The reversal of the massive (...)
In his novel Blindness, Portuguese author José Saramago presents the violence that takes place in a city that has lost its humanity during an epidemic.
The only woman unaffected by the disease, which causes blindness, accompanies her physician (...)
