WASHINGTON, March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The US Senate broke a logjam late Friday when a centrist Democrat compromised on a key provision of the Covid relief package, setting the $1.9 trillion bill on a likely path to passage. Democrats had struggled to keep Senator Joe Manchin’s support for expanded unemployment…

BRASILIA, March 6 (NNN-TELESUR) — Brazil became the new world epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, surpassing the United States in new daily infections while setting another record in the number of daily deaths from Covid-19. The Johns Hopkins University count indicated that the US counted 63,816 new Covid-19 infections in the last…

SAN SALVADOR, March 6 (NNN-TELESUR) — El Salvador’s human rights defenders, survivors, and relatives of victims of the El Mozote massacre protested in front of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) headquarters to demand justice for the crime. “Thirty-nine years have passed and there is still no justice for the…

LA PAZ, March 6 (NNN-TELESUR) — The Inter-American Union of Electoral Organizations (Uniore) ‘s mission arrived in Bolivia on Friday to monitor the departmental elections Sunday, March 7. The Union’s mission representative Pamela San Martín said that “on behalf of Uniore, 12 people from seven member countries are present and…

MEXICO CITY, March 6 (NNN-TELESUR) — Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection Rosa Rodriguez reported on seven states where there is a higher risk of organized crime interference in June’s subnational elections. Morelos, Guerrero, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Sinaloa, and Jalisco are the states where there are risks of pressures and…

The Cuban government has announced that Soberana-2 will commence Phase III trials on 44,000 participants in March HAVANA, March 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Cuba on Thursday started phase 3 clinical trials of its Soberana-2 COVID-19 vaccine, Vicente Verez, director general of Cuba’s Finlay Institute of Vaccines, told a press conference. “We…