LIMA, April 17 (NNN-XINHUA) — Presidential candidates Pedro Castillo and Keiko Fujimori will face off in runoff election in Peru, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) said. “In the framework of the 2021 General Elections, the National Office of Electoral Processes managed to process 100 percent of the electoral…

Castro on Friday announced he is retiring as the head of the party HAVANA, April 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Raul Castro on Friday announced he is retiring as the head of the party. “As for me, my task…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro WASHINGTON, April 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The United States welcomed Brazil’s renewed promise to end illegal deforestation but urged immediate action to protect the Amazon, a major factor in global climate change. Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime scourge of environmentalists, in a letter to President Joe…

WASHINGTON, April 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The CIA made its first known attempt to assassinate a leader of the Cuban revolution in 1960, offering $10,000 to a pilot flying Raul Castro from Prague to Havana to arrange an “accident,” according to declassified documents published Friday. Pilot Jose Raul Martinez, who had…

OTTAWA, April 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Canada’s most populous province, Ontario, has extended its lockdown and implemented stricter measures to fight Covid, closing domestic borders and barring unnecessary travel, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said. The province of 14 million people registered 4,812 new cases — a record high — and 25…