A firefighter battling the Creek Fire in Shaver Lake, California in September LOS ANGELES, Oct 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — US President Donald Trump has approved California’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration to bolster the state’s emergency response to wildfires, California governor Gavin Newsom said. “Just got off the phone with…

LA PAZ, Oct 17 (NNN-Xinhua) — Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) authorized an electoral roll of 7,332,925 citizens, out of a total of more than 11 million inhabitants, for the presidential elections on Sunday. The vice president of the TSE, Maria Angelica Ruiz said a transparent clean-up of the electoral…

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — New applications for US jobless benefits rose unexpectedly last week to 898,000, the Labor Department said. The 53,000 increase from the prior week was the sharpest rise in seasonally adjusted initial claims since the week of Aug 15, as the United States attempts to recover…

highs in US Midwest and beyond A field hospital known as an Alternate Care Facility set up at the state fair ground as cases of Covid-19 spike in the state near Milwaukee, Wisconsin CHICAGO, Oct 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Wisconsin and other states in the US Midwest are battling a surge in COVID-19…

 Hundreds of people wait in line for early voting on Monday, in Marietta, Georgia NEWTON (Iowa, US), Oct 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Americans are voting early in record numbers with more than 17.8 million casting their ballots already ahead of a presidential election between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump…

 International Friendship Bridge BRASILIA, Oct 16 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil and Paraguay have begun the process of gradually reopening the common border, according to a joint statement released by the Brazilian and Paraguayan governments. The border posts of Foz do Iguacu-Ciudad del Este, Ponta Pora-Pedro Juan Caballero, and Mundo Novo-Saltos del…

BEIJING, Oct 16 (NNN-Xinhua) — China expressed firm opposition to and denunciation of the US side creating the so-called “Hong Kong Autonomy Act,” and sanctioning Chinese personnel based on it, vowing countermeasures “if the US is bent on going this way.” That came after the US State Department’s recent warning…

Salvador Cienfuegos was Mexican defense minister from 2012 to 2018 under ex-president Enrique Pena Nieto MEXICO CITY, Oct 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Former Mexican defense minister Salvador Cienfuegos has been arrested in the United States on undisclosed charges, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said. Ebrard said on Twitter that he had been…