Adults with obesity are more susceptible to influenza A/H1N1pdm, the swine flu virus, according to a study posted on the website of the University of Michigan (UM) on Thursday.
The researchers looked at data from more than 1,500 individuals in 330 (...)
Managua, September 3, 2018 (News Wires) - At least two people were hurt by gunfire Sunday as suspected paramilitaries targeted anti-government demonstrators in Nicaragua's capital.
Unidentified gunmen wounded one of the demonstrators in the arm in (...)
Managua, August 16, 2018 (News Wires) - Thousands of Nicaraguans marched through their capital on Wednesday demanding that anti-government protesters jailed over the past four months be released.
"Liberty for our political prisoners," yelled many in (...)
MANAGUA, June 24, 2018 (News Wires) - At least eight people including a baby were killed on Saturday when pro-government forces clashed with opponents in Nicaragua, according to a rights group.
Seven people were killed in the capital Managua and one (...)
The Nicaraguan government and civic groups on Friday agreed to halt all violence, in a major step to end two months of political unrest that has left 170 dead and rocked the government of President Daniel Ortega.
Ortega, however, did not address a (...)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, June 10, 2018 (News Wires) — Dozens of roadblocks set up on Nicaragua's highways by protesters opposing President Daniel Ortega's government have stranded about 6,000 transport trucks carrying goods to other Central American (...)
Managua, May 13, 2018 (News Wires) - Nicaragua's army on Saturday called for an end to violence in the country and distanced itself from President Daniel Ortega, saying it was not repressing anyone for taking part in anti-government protests.
Unrest (...)
تجوب قوات الأمن اليوم الإثنين، شوارع "ماناجوا" عاصمة نيكاراجوا، أكبر دول أمريكا الوسطى، بعد أن ألغى الرئيس دانييل أورتيجا، نظام إصلاح المعاشات، والذي نتج عنه 4 أيام من العنف ومقتل أكثر من 20 شخصا، وذلك حسبما ذكرت وكالة الأنباء الفرنسية.
يذكر أن هذه (...)
A reporter was shot and killed during a live broadcast from an area of Nicaragua roiled by violent anti-government protests this week, local media reported on Saturday night.
The man, identified in Nicaraguan media as Angel Gahona, was reporting (...)
MANAGUA, April 21, 2018 (Reuters) - Protests in Nicaragua over changes to social security have led to the deaths of at least three people, including a police officer, the Red Cross said late Friday, heaping pressure on the leftist government of (...)
A Chinese company breaks ground Monday on a $50 billion canal across Nicaragua, an ambitious rival to the Panama Canal that critics condemn as a pipe dream and protesters say will wreck the environment.
President Daniel Ortega and the Chinese (...)
The disastrous consequences of the recent aggressions against Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Ukraine, to name just a few, show the urgent need to revive the principle of non-intervention into another state. This principle of international law (...)
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Friday in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret US spy programs.
Snowden, 30, is believed to (...)
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden on Friday in defiance of Washington, which is demanding his arrest for divulging details of secret U.S. spy programs.
Snowden, 30, is believed (...)
MEXICO CITY: Everyone these days, it seems, has their own favorite American diplomatic cable — or will soon — given that the 250,000 documents obtained by WikiLeaks include references to almost every country in the world. For Latin America, (...)
It was just like driving to work, except that I kept on going: From New York to Argentina, through 12 countries, for four months and more than 13,000 miles (21,000 kilometers).
It s the first leg of my overland trip around the world, an (...)
Washington and Moscow cannot tango together in Africa, especially with China stealing the spotlight with its shimmies, writes Gamal Nkrumah
An ethics lesson from an unlikely quarter? Tegucigalpa is no coxswain as far as African democracy is (...)
The recent histories of Latin America and the Arab world share many features. But now, writes Gamil Mattar*, their paths are diverging
Manuel Ortega of Nicaragua, Evo Morales of Bolivia, Lula de Silva of Brazil, Tabaré Vàzquez of Uraquay, Hugo (...)