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Last US troops leave Afghanistan after nearly 20 years

Published on: August 31, 2021
07:47

Washington, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) After 20 years of occupation, a military C-17 carried the last US troops out of Afghanistan on Monday, marking the formal and of the longest war in US history.

UNDP: Covid-19 pandemic tests capacities to reduce poverty

Published on: August 31, 2021
07:46

United Nations, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) The UN Development Program (UNDP) on Monday said that the Covid-19 pandemic is testing capacities to lift 100 million people out of multidimensional poverty.

Enforced disappearance persists in the world as a method of terror

Published on: August 30, 2021
18:53

United Nations, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Enforced disappearance is banned by international law, but continues to be used worldwide as a method of repression and terror, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday.

A Trump ally loses ground in the US

Published on: August 30, 2021
18:50

Washington, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) The governor of Florida, Republican Ron DeSantis, blessed by former President Donald Trump, is losing ground today in the USS for his measures to fight Covid-19.

Millions of students returned to on-site classes in Mexico

Published on: August 30, 2021
17:58

Mexico, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) About 25 million students of all levels returned today in Mexico to classes after 17 months of confinement in the 32 states of the country, including the capital. The Covid-19 pandemic attacked Mexico in February 2020, and on March 20, with the first death from the disease, the order was given to close schools and that was the last day that more than 25 million students in basic education were in the classrooms of the more than 233,000 centers in the country.

Dominican donation sails the Caribbean Sea to Cuba

Published on: August 30, 2021
12:09

Santo Domingo, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) A donation of more than 12 tons of medical supplies from the Dominican government sails today through the Caribbean Sea to Cuba in a gesture of solidarity to help face the Covid-19 pandemic.

Violent attack on banks in Brazilian state kills three people

Published on: August 30, 2021
12:00

Brasilia, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) At least three people were killed and three others injured after heavily armed criminals attacked three bank branches today in the city of Araçatuba, in the interior of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo.

About two million children in the labor market in Brazil

Published on: August 30, 2021
10:29

Brasilia, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) Brazil registers today 1.8 million children and adolescents between the ages of five and 17 in a situation of child labor, according to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), cited by R7 portal.

UNSC addresses situation in the Middle East and Palestine

Published on: August 30, 2021
07:22

United Nations, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) The UN Security Council (UNSC) will dedicate an information session and consultations behind closed doors to the situation in the Middle East, including Palestine, following new Israeli bombings over Gaza.

Biden meets grieving families and honors troops killed in Afghanistan

Published on: August 30, 2021
07:21

Washington, Aug 30 (Prensa Latina) President Joe Biden met in solemn privacy Sunday with the families of the 13 US troops killed in the suicide attack near the Kabul airport as the remains of their loved ones returned to US soil from Afghanistan.

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