The government of Venezuela announced on Thursday (24) the purchase of 12 million doses of the Cuban vaccine against Covid-19. Abdala, the first 100% Latin American vaccine to reach the distribution stage, has 92% efficacy, according to pharmaceutical company BioCubaFarma, but has not yet been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) . Read more … Read more
Former PT presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff joined five other former presidents of Latin American countries and Spain in a letter expressing concern for democracy in Peru and asking for recognition by the national election jury of the victory of the country. leftist Pedro Castillo. Signatories include former presidents Ernesto Samper Pizano, of Colombia, Fernando … Read more
Brazil opened the border with Venezuela for the first time since March last year, but limited access to 50 people per day. The entrance was blocked, according to the government, for health reasons, but the measure was criticized by lawyers and human rights organizations, who said an exception should be made – with control measures … Read more
The European Parliament on Thursday (24) approved a resolution declaring that safe access to abortion is a human right and urging European Union countries to ensure that sex education is comprehensive for children from the start. elementary School. The text has no binding power – each country is sovereign to make its own laws on … Read more
When China announced its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060, there was criticism. Many wanted more details or more ambition, but no one thought it was an easy goal to achieve. As the world’s largest emitter of CO2, China has a very high mountain of carbon to dump. And Chinese emissions continue to grow. … Read more
Fossils discovered in Israel indicate that mysterious archaic humans were still present in the Middle East 140,000 to 120,000 years ago when the first groups of our species arrived in the region. If the data are confirmed by further discoveries, the scenarios explaining the spread of Homo sapiens across the planet and its relationship with … Read more
With photos, the fall of Environment Minister Ricardo Salles made headlines in European and American vehicles, with statements such as “Bolsonaro loses another hard line” in the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, but with a doubt: “What does this mean for the rainforest? “ In the culmination of the French Le Monde, “his successor must seek … Read more
In a seminal 1950 article on artificial intelligence, British scientist Alan Turing (1912-1954) asks: Can a machine think? In the text, Turing suggests a game in which a person and a computer answer questions from another person who would be a kind of judge. In the end, the judge has to use the answers to … Read more
Amid a months-long conflict in Ethiopia, an airstrike by government forces in a market on Tuesday (22) left at least 64 dead and 180 injured in Togoga, Tigray province. The provisional investigation was prepared by the population and local leaders, who also accuse the Ethiopian army of preventing rescuers from accessing the region to transfer … Read more
The Indian Ministry of Health announced last Tuesday evening (22) the discovery of a new variant called “Delta Plus” (B.1.617.2.1), which comes from the dominant variety of the Asian country called Delta (B. 1.617.2). The new strain emerged in April and has been detected in at least 40 samples in the three Indian states of … Read more