Mexico enters the list of countries confirming first monkeypox case Mexico City: Health authorities in Mexico affirmed Saturday the nation’s previously known instance of monkeypox, in a 50-year-old US occupant being treated in Mexico City. The man, a super durable occupant of New York City, “was presumably contaminated in the Netherlands,” Hugo Lopez-Gatell, an undersecretary … Read more
Sudanese women’s activist Amira Osman Hamed has won a Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk, the organisation announced Friday. The activist and engineer, now in her forties, has been advocating for Sudanese women for two decades, and was detained this year in a crackdown following the country’s latest coup. She was … Read more
The United States stated Thursday it’s going to no longer invite representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro or Nicaragua to subsequent month’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, no matter Mexican-led threats to boycott if they and Cuba are excluded. “Absolutely now not. We do not understand them as a sovereign government,” Kevin O’Reilly, … Read more
Light rain and mountain snowfall halted the biggest fire in the United States on Tuesday. On Wednesday, several evacuation orders were lowered, including those for the villages of Golondrinas, Watrous, and Fort Union. NOAA predicts an above-average hurricane season. Calf Canyon and Hermits Peak Fires have been estimated to be 42 percent contained. Nearly 3,000 … Read more
Gunmen killed ten people in an attack on a hotel and two bars in Celaya, central Mexico, according to security officials. According to the security secretariat in Celaya, Guanajuato’s central region, the attack killed seven women and three men and injured two others. Officials found the dead bodies upon arrival in the neighborhood of Valle … Read more
A shooting at a Mexican hotel killed almost a dozen people and injured numerous more on Monday. At around 10 p.m., Telemundo 52 reported that at least 11 people were killed and another five were injured at the Gala hotel and bar in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. About 15 armed men wearing hoods jumped out of … Read more
Asylum seekers in the dusty, violent border city of Reynosa, Mexico, were once again playing an uncertain waiting game. Their hopes of entering the United States were dashed yet again on Saturday by a health rule imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic. “They claim to be opening the border today. Do you believe that’s correct?” Michelle, … Read more
The Covid-19 pandemic took its toll on weddings in the United States, with only 1.6 million marriages taking place in 2020, the lowest number since 1963, according to data. With many couples forced to postpone their weddings, the number of marriages in 2020 fell nearly 17 percent from the previous year, when nearly two million … Read more
The amenities of a sophisticated tunnel the length of five football fields, used to smuggle cocaine from Mexico into the United States, were revealed by officials who made the shocking discovery. According to a Department of Justice criminal complaint, federal authorities in California discovered the underground passageway last Friday as part of an investigation that … Read more
According to a source, pro-choice campaigners are bracing for a “huge inflow” of American women seeking abortions over the Mexican and Canadian borders if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. According to Verónica Cruz Sánchez, founder of the Mexico-based pro-choice organization Las Libres, there has already been an increase in the number of women … Read more
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company, announced on Friday that its next rocket will launch on May 20 with six passengers on board. One of the passengers will be the first Mexican-born woman to travel into space. Liftoff from western Texas is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. (1330 GMT). It will be the company’s fifth … Read more
Mexico’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the eighth time in a row on Thursday, attempting to temper inflation, which has reached its highest level in two decades. According to the Bank of Mexico, the governing board opted to raise the interbank rate by half a percentage point, to 7.0 percent, with one … Read more
Data released Wednesday showed that drug overdoses killed moreover 100,000 people in the United States in 2021, as the Covid-19 outbreak compounded a crisis fueled by fentanyl and fake online medicines. Experts say everyday life disruptions have been particularly harsh on persons with substance use disorders, while officials in Mexico are seizing record volumes of … Read more
Just as Mexican journalists were preparing to protest the execution of a journalist last week, word arrived that two more had been shot to death in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, bringing the country’s total to 11 this year. The Veracruz State Prosecutor’s Office said on Twitter that it was looking into the deaths … Read more
Authorities said on Sunday that the death toll from an accidental explosion at a luxury hotel in central Havana had risen to 30, as firefighters continued to search through the rubble. The public health ministry reported that twenty-four people were being treated in hospitals following the powerful blast on Friday, which was thought to be … Read more
Firefighters in New Mexico battled a massive inferno that has been blazing for more than a month, raising concerns about the summer ahead in the drought-stricken western United States. The “Hermits Peak Fire” has burned 168,000 acres at the southern end of the Rocky Mountains, destroying 170 homes and forcing roughly 16,000 people to flee … Read more
Mexico will step up security along its southern border in preparation for a possible new wave of migrants headed for the United States, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said. The two countries are bracing for an expected surge in arrivals if Washington ends a pandemic-era rule known as Title 42 used to quickly expel … Read more
Mexico announced Wednesday a settlement with contributors of the private sector aimed toward keeping fees of staple ingredients in the face of the best inflation in two many years. “This isn’t always about price controls. It’s an agreement, an alliance to guarantee that the basic meals basket is priced fairly,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador … Read more
Pato O’Ward of Mexico took the lead with 29 laps to go and held off defending champion Alex Palou of Spain to win the IndyCar Grand Prix of Alabama on Sunday. After victories last year in Texas and Detroit, O’Ward, who turns 23 on Friday, won his third career IndyCar race. “I was tired of … Read more
On Friday, world No. 2 Jon Rahm took a two-stroke lead in the Mexico Open, shooting a five-under-par 66 for a 36-hole total of 12-under 130 at Vidanta Vallarta. After sharing the overnight lead with five other players, the Spanish star, who is the highest-ranked player in the field of the long-established event that is … Read more
The US is still working to reunite an estimated 1,000 migrant children separated from their parents as a result of former President Donald Trump’s controversial 2018 policy according to US Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated at a Senate hearing on funding for his agency that a task force established by … Read more
Oscar Valdez of Mexico and Shakur Stevenson of the United States, both undefeated super featherweight champions, will meet in a boxing unification bout on Saturday in Las Vegas. The winner of the bout between World Boxing Council champion Valdez (30-0, 23 KOs) and World Boxing Organization champion Stevenson (17-0, 9 KOs) would be crowned the … Read more
A conflict among rival companies of workers at a cement plant in important Mexico left as a minimum of 8 people dead and nearly a dozen injured on Wednesday, authorities stated. The unrest broke out at an entrance to the web page operated with the aid of Cruz Azul, a cooperative owned by using employees, … Read more
Cameron Norrie of the United Kingdom advanced to the quarter-finals of this year’s Barcelona Open after defeating Marton Fucsovics in a nail-biting match. Cameron, who is 26 years old, had to fight hard since his opponent was simply reluctant to give up in order to win the difficult match by 7-5 6-7 (9-11) 6-4, and … Read more
Mexico has dissolved a special unit educated by US authorities to combat drug cartels as it become infiltrated by way of criminals, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday. Some members of the institution had been detained over the allegations, Lopez Obrador instructed newshounds. The police unit, which obtained schooling from the US Drug Enforcement … Read more
In a blow to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who accused his opponents Monday of betraying the country, Mexican lawmakers rejected constitutional electrical amendments at the focus of diplomatic tensions with the United States. Lopez Obrador advocated for the measures in order to strengthen the state-owned energy supplier and reverse the impacts of past … Read more
The US authorities, beneath strain to decrease fuel fees, introduced Friday it’ll resume the sale of leases for oil and fuel drilling on federal lands at the same time as imposing new conditions, including the primary hike in royalties in more than one hundred years. Shortly after coming to office in January 2021, President Joe Biden, … Read more
After a week of growing outrage and worries of greater economic losses, Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday rescinded his traffic-clogging immigration order that held up commercial vehicles at the US-Mexico border. The Republican governor rescinded his new rules requiring all commercial vehicles entering the United States from Mexico to undergo further inspections in an … Read more
