United States

• Friday, November 29th 2024 - 08:22 UTC

  US CDC calls for more testing of dairy workers given the spread of avian flu

  

  United States health officials have called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed that some dairy workers had signs of infection, even when they didn’t report feeling sick.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 09:48 UTC

  Lula avoids the dragon’s, Belt and Road Initiative and agrees with China’s Xi on a neutral ‘shared future’

  

  President-elect Donald Trump’s impressive victory has had an impact worldwide given his promises, many of them with a strong dye of populism and protectionism, Making America Great Again.

• Tuesday, November 26th 2024 - 09:11 UTC

  Petro wants Biden to pardon high-profile FARC leader

  

  Colombian President Gustavo Petro would like his US colleague Joseph Biden to pardon convicted Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) leader Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera, alias Simón Trinidad, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for kidnapping in a federal facility in the State of Colorado.

• Monday, November 25th 2024 - 06:10 UTC

  “The Magellan Strait belongs to Chile“, underlines US Ambassador

  

  “The United States has been very clear that the Magellan Strait belongs to Chile, and I can assure you there is no intention of holding naval exercises with Argentina along the Magellan Strait,” US ambassador in Chile Bernadette Meehan said point blank during a visit to Punta Arenas, Magallanes Region, following on rumors published in the neighboring country media.

• Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:01 UTC

  US Petroleum lobby presents Trump a policy roadmap to ensure US leadership in global energy

  

  A five point policy roadmap with the purpose of ensuring United States leadership in energy, protecting consumers and reducing inflation, elaborated by the American Petroleum Institute, API, has been addressed to incoming president Donald Trump and the next Congress.

• Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 18:52 UTC

  Blinken recognizes González Urrutia as Venezuelan President-elect

  

  US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that his country was recognizing opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the July 28 elections in Venezuela despite announcements -albeit with little credibility- by authorities in Caracas that the incumbent Nicolás Maduro had prevailed. González Urrutia, who ran on behalf of the Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD) given María Corina Machado's disenfranchisement, sought asylum in September in Spain after the Chavista regime issued an arrest warrant against him.

• Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 09:47 UTC

  US to release aid package for Brazilian Amazon

  

  The United States offered an aid package for environmental actions in the Brazilian Amazon to address climate change, it was announced Monday during President Joseph Biden's visit to Manaus as part of his journey to the country for the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Agencia Brasil reported. The first trip by a sitting US president to the region marked celebrations of 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

• Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:46 UTC

  Milei first world leader to meet Trump post Nov. 5 elections

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday became the first foreign leader to meet US President-elect Donald Trump after the latter's victory in the Nov. 5 elections. They got together at the Republican's Mar-a-Lago complex in Florida during a CPAC (Conservative Political Action Convention).

• Friday, November 15th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

  Port Miami cruise industry, Fiscal Year 2024 marked a new record

  

  The port of Miami has announced a new record of passengers for the cruise industry, which totaled 8,233,056 travelers in Fiscal Year 2024, (October 1, 2023 to 30 September 30), equivalent to a 12.79% increase in cruise passenger, compared to its previous record of 7,299,294 passengers in Fiscal Year 2023, points out Cruise Industry News.

• Tuesday, November 12th 2024 - 06:32 UTC

  US airliner shot at when trying to land in Haiti's main airport

  

  Violence-torn Haiti keeps making headlines worldwide as a Spirit Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale was shot at when trying to land at noon local time by gangs surrounding Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture International Airport on the same day that the new interim Prime Minister was sworn in.