The helicopter in which Colombian President Iván Duque was in was attacked by bullets in the north of Santander on Friday afternoon (25). No one was hurt. The president was traveling from Sardinata to Cúcuta – the main city in the region, on the border with Venezuela – when the vehicle was repeatedly hit. Duque … Read more
Former police officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd by pinching the victim’s neck with his knee for more than nine minutes last May, was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on Friday (25). Chauvin, 45, had been held in a Minnesota state penitentiary since mid-April when he was convicted of the … Read more
The metal doors of the failing stores are closed, the movie posters that were lit before the start of the pandemic, torn but still stuck in the windows of the films. Bookstores and second-hand booksellers serve outdoors due to entry restrictions into businesses, few people walking, beggars on street corners asking for change. This is … Read more
Switzerland will no longer require the quarantine or testing of tourists arriving from Brazil from this Saturday (26), provided they have been fully vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19. The immunizing agents Coronavac, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Janssen (all used in Brazil), Sinopharm and Serum will be accepted, according to the new rules of the European country, … Read more
Scientists at Duke University, USA, have developed a new test that can detect antibodies against the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus with high precision and with a result in about an hour with just one drop of blood. An article describing the test was published this Friday (25) in the scientific journal Science Advances, edited by the American … Read more
The entire mall and part of the eastern suburbs of Sydney, Australia’s largest city, were closed from midnight this Friday (25) due to an outbreak of cases of the delta variant of the coronavirus . The measure must be valid until July 2 at least. Read more (06/25/2021 – 2:25 PM)
June 19 was a tough day for Jair Bolsonaro as he has shown that his story is not as compelling as it used to be. Along with the big marches across the country against his government, 19J was also one of those rare times when the portfolio lost its ability to dominate the agenda and … Read more
In another chapter of its military dispute with the United Kingdom, and the West more broadly, Russia sent this Friday (25) two fighters capable of launching a new hypersonic missile for naval air exercises in Syria. The two MiG-31K interceptors will team up for the first time with Tu-22M3 bombers, anti-submarine patrol planes and five … Read more
A five-year-old Brazilian child and his father, Italian Alfredo Leone, are among those missing in the partial collapse of a beachfront condominium in Miami. The boy’s mother, Raquel Oliveira, was visiting family in another Colorado town around the time of the collapse. On her Facebook profile, she says her husband and son were asleep when … Read more
The name of a far-right group was graffiti painted Thursday (24) on two statues erected in honor of George Floyd, in New York and New Jersey states. According to New York police, the wooden bust of artist Chris Carnabuci and unveiled last Saturday (19) – the date the United States first celebrated as a national … Read more