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Victims of Afghanistan school attack increase

Published on: May 9, 2021
11:25

Kabul, May 9 (Prensa Latina) The death toll following an attack on a girls' school in the country's capital rose to 50, most of them female students between the ages of 11 and 15, the Afghan Ministry of the Interior reported.

Police officers attack reporters in Colombia

Published on: May 7, 2021
14:16

Bogota, May 7 (Prensa Latina) Violence continues in Colombia and it targets reporters, Maria Camila Diaz, reporter of the work group at WRadio, denounced on Friday.

Violence against Colombian people rejected from France

Published on: May 7, 2021
11:58

Paris, May 7 (Prensa Latina) Manuel Salamanca, member of the Colombian Communist Party, condemned on Friday in Paris the bloody repression of the Government of President Ivan Duque against popular mobilizations in the South American country in demand of social improvements.

US Supreme Court to hear case on carrying guns in public

Published on: April 27, 2021
13:49

Washington, Apr 27 (Prensa Latina) The US Supreme Court said on Monday that it would review a longstanding New York law that imposes strict limits on carrying guns outside home, setting the stage for its first major Second Amendment decision in more than a decade, and the first to be ruled by the court's newly expanded conservative majority.

More than five million people displaced in DR Congo

Published on: April 23, 2021
09:31

Kinshasa, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) records more than five million people internally displaced by the action of armed groups, violence against civil society and intercommunity conflicts, Radio Okapi reported on Friday.

More protests in Ohio after Black teenager killed by police

Published on: April 23, 2021
09:15

Washington, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) Several protests and vigils have been taken place across Columbus, Ohio, after the death of 16-year-old Black teenager Ma'Khia Bryant by the police, local press reported.

France outlaws sex with children aged under 15

Published on: April 16, 2021
09:05

Paris, Apr 16 (Prensa Latina) French parliament on Thursday adopted legislation that characterizes sex with a child under the age of 15 as rape and punishable by up to 20 years in jail, bringing its penal code closer in line with many other Western nations.

Venezuelan senior officers confirm use of landmines by Colombia

Published on: April 9, 2021
13:50

Caracas, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) Venezuelan senior military officers on Friday confirmed that Colombian irregular groups planted anti-personnel landmines to spread terror and violence among La Victoria population, in Apure state.

Biden to unveil executive actions to curb gun violence

Published on: April 8, 2021
08:51

Washington, Apr 8 (Prensa Latina) President Joe Biden will unveil measures this Thursday aimed at curbing rampant US gun violence, especially seeking to prevent the spread of untraceable ghost guns, White House officials said.

Ethiopian prime minister condemns massacre of civilians in Oromia

Published on: April 1, 2021
08:56

Addis Ababa, Apr 1 (Prensa Latina) Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday condemned the massacre of civilians at a district in Wellega, a region in the western part of Oromia.

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