South America

Brazil’s health official tests positive for Covid-19 at UN gathering

BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for Covid-19 Tuesday after attending the UN General Assembly in New York that was inaugurated by his president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to an official statement. “The other members of the delegation have been tested and are negative,” said the official Brazilian government press release. Queiroga, who had received a Covid-19 vaccine, was the second member of Bolsonaro’s entourage to test positive for the virus […]

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro going to UN meet despite being unvaccinated

  BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s Covid-unvaccinated President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday he will attend next week’s United Nations conclave in New York, effectively defying city authorities who recently announced proof-of-vaccination requirements for all attending leaders and diplomats. “Next week I will be at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), where I will give an opening speech” on Tuesday, the president said during a social media broadcast. It will be “a calm speech, very objective, focused […]

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At least 23 dead after bus plunges off cliff in Bolivia

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AFP) — At least 23 people, including three children, were killed after a bus plunged off a cliff in central Bolivia, police and witnesses said. The bus, carrying 33 people, plummeted 400 meters (1,300 feet) down a cliff in Cochabamba state at around 11 am Monday. “I stepped on the brake and there was no brake,” said the driver, whose wife died in the accident. The dead also included three children aged […]

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Climate and weather related disasters surge five-fold over 50 years, but early warnings save lives – WMO report

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrLaT1wyLaE   Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events, have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50 years disproportionately impacting poorer countries, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) said on Wednesday. According to the agencies’ Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water Extremes, from 1970 to 2019, these natural hazards accounted for 50 per cent of all disasters, 45 per cent […]

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Thirty-two die as bus plunges off cliff in Peru

LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Thirty-two passengers died, including two children, and more than 20 were injured when a bus plummeted from a cliff in Peru early Tuesday, officials said, in the country’s third multiple-victim transport accident in four days. The accident happened on a narrow stretch of the Carretera Central road some 37 miles (60 kilometers) east of the capital Lima. “Unfortunately, at the moment, there are 32 dead,” said police commander Cesar Cervantes. A […]

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At least 20 dead after torrential rains in Venezuela

  MÉRIDA, Venezuela (AFP) — The death toll from heavy rains that triggered mudslides and floods in western Venezuela has risen to 20, local authorities said Wednesday, with 17 other people missing. Nine states are in an “emergency” situation and more than 54,000 people have been affected by the downpours, Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos told state television. On Tuesday he warned it would continue to rain “for the next 10 days.” The hardest-hit areas are […]

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Torrential rains leave 13 dead in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — At least 13 people died in the Venezuelan Andes after heavy rains triggered mud and rock slides, local authorities said Tuesday. Several hours of downpours in the Mocoties valley, a farming region in western Merida state that attracts a lot of tourism, caused boulders to tumble down mountainsides, blocking off roads. Eleven people died in the village of Tovar and two children died in Pinto Salinas, Merida governor Ramon Guevara said. […]

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Argentina starts distributing local Sputnik vaccine

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP) — Argentina on Thursday began distributing the first batch of more than one million doses of the Russian Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine produced domestically. The South American country announced in June that a local pharmaceutical company would manufacture the vaccine using an antigen provided by the Moscow-based maker of Sputnik. So far Laboratorios Richmond, the pharmaceutical company tasked with the effort, has produced 995,000 units of the first dose and 152,000 […]

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Tropical Storm Fred forms off Puerto Rico

MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Tropical Storm Fred, the sixth of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season, formed south of Puerto Rico and was expected to move westwards through the Caribbean, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said early Wednesday. The cyclone was about 40 miles (65 kilometers) southwest of Puerto Rico, the NHC said. Tropical storm warnings have been issued for Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic, where the cyclone is […]

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Bolsonaro lashes out at new probe: ‘Brazil is under attack’

BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — President Jair Bolsonaro lashed out Tuesday at electoral authorities for ordering an investigation of his campaign against Brazil’s electronic voting system, saying he refused to be “intimidated” and that the country “is under attack.” The far-right president, who is up for re-election next year, has recently stepped up his long-time criticism of Brazil’s voting system, claiming — without evidence — that it is riddled with fraud and insisting there will be […]

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Millions of Americans risk eviction as virus cases spike

Millions of Americans could find themselves homeless starting Sunday as a nationwide ban on evictions expires, against a backdrop of surging coronavirus cases and political fingerpointing. With billions in government funds meant to help renters still untapped, President Joe Biden this week urged Congress to extend the 11-month-old moratorium after a recent Supreme Court ruling meant the White House could not do so. But Republicans balked at Democratic efforts to extend the eviction ban through […]

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WATCH: Stories of how the INC’s Aid to Humanity helped communities in the Americas amid the pandemic

  In this special report, Eagle News America continues its coverage of the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s (Church Of Christ’s) 107th Anniversary, and tells the stories of how the Church has made a positive impact on communities in the Americas amid the pandemic. EBC’s correspondents in North and South America report the various Aid to Humanity events and other socio-civic activities of the INC, through the Felix Y. Manalo Foundation, that helped various communities across the […]

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