MANCHESTER (New Hampshire, US), Aug 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — More mental hospitals are needed to take potential mass killers off the streets, President Donald Trump said in response to recent mass shootings, while staying quiet on a pledge to toughen gun laws. Speaking to a crowd of supporters estimated at around…

CARACAS, Aug 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said the government would meet with Norwegian mediators in an effort to restart talks with the opposition aimed at resolving the country’s political crisis. Arreaza told reporters in Caracas that the government was seeking changes to the talks mechanism before…

MEXICO CITY, Aug 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Mexico’s government amplified its assertion that the Aug 3 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, was an act of terrorism against Mexicans, urging the United States to ensure the attack was designated as such. Speaking after meetings on Tuesday between U.S. and Mexican government…

SANTIAGO, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 13.2 percent year on year in 2018, totaling 184.287 billion U.S. dollars and putting an end to five years of declines, a UN agency said. These findings were delineated in “Foreign Direct Investment…

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — Authorities in Central America reported that Dengue had killed at least 124 people among the nearly 127,000 cases of the mosquito-borne disease tallied up to Aug. 8, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. “Children and adolescents are the most…

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 15 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil’s Ministry of Health announced that it started a massive distribution of measles vaccine in the country in an attempt to contain the rising number of measles cases. In the past three months, Brazil registered 1,226 new cases of measles, including 1,220 in…