MEXICO CITY, Jan 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico’s deaths from Covid-19 surpassed 300,000 on Friday, one of the world’s highest tolls as the pandemic rebounds around the globe.   Mexico is the fifth worst-hit country, with the United States the most affected with more than 836,000 fatalities, followed by Brazil (619,000),…

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 8 (NNN-TELESUR) — Radio Ecoute announced that journalists Wilguens Louissaint and Amady John Wesley were murdered by the “Ti Makak” gang in a Port-au-Prince’s shantytown on Thursday. While reporting on security issues at the Laboule 12 neighborhood, Radio Ecoute journalist Wesley was reportedly savagely shot and then burned…

BUENOS AIRES, Jan 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and Santiago Cafiero, Foreign Ministers of Cuba and Argentina respectively, signed in Buenos Aires a bilateral cooperation agreement for Agricultural Development “to promote the food sovereignty of Cuba,” it was announced. The treaty provides for the creation of an Agricultural Technology…

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Health authorities in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro have reported that the number of COVID-19 detections had increased 6,778% in less than a month, as the Omicron strain has already been detected locally. There were 18 COVID-19 positive results Dec 12…

LIMA, Jan 8 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) — Peruvian Health authorities have reported the detection of three infections and also one death of flurona, the new portmanteau disease resulting from the overlapping of COVID-19 with influenza. The three cases were one child, one adult and an elderly man with comorbidities, according to Public…

VERACRUZ (Mexico), Jan 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Nine bodies were found Friday on a road in eastern Mexico, officials said — the latest gruesome discovery in a country plagued by drug cartel-related violence.    The corpses were left on a highway in the municipality of Isla in the state of Veracruz,…