Tag: Mexico City
Gunmen attack wake in Mexico, killing nine
dpa/GNA - Gunmen opened fire at a home in central Mexico where a wake was being held on Thursday night, killing at least...
Mexico grants emergency approval for second coronavirus vaccine
dpa/GNA - Mexico has granted emergency approval to the AstraZeneca/Oxford coronavirus vaccine, a Health Ministry official said, making it the second vaccine to...
Activists blame death of man in prison on Venezuelan officials
dpa/GNA - Human rights activists in Venezuela have blamed the death of an indigenous man in prison on officials.
Salvador Franco died on Sunday...
Venezuela to implement seven-day hard lockdown to slow coronavirus
dpa/GNA - Venezuela will implement a week of hard lockdown starting on Monday to slow down the spread of the new coronavirus, Vice...
Sale of single-use plastic banned in Mexico City
dpa/GNA - A ban on the sale of single-use plastic in Mexico City came into force on New Year's Day.
"The marketing, distribution and...
Mexico seized 486 percent more fentanyl in 2020 than previous year
dpa/GNA - Mexican security forces confiscated almost 500 per cent more of the opioid fentanyl in 2020 than in the previous year, Defence...
Mexico, Chile, Costa Rica first in Latin America to start vaccination
dpa/GNA Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica became the first countries in Latin America to begin vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus on Thursday.
In...
Nicaragua frees more than 1,000 prison inmates ahead of Christmas
Nicaragua has freed 1,004 prison inmates in the run-up to Christmas, Vice President Rosario Murillo announced on Friday.
Nicaragua regularly releases prisoners around certain public...
Mexican politician arrested after historic murder of journalist
Nearly four years after the murder of a journalist in northern Mexico, a local politician has been arrested for his suspected involvement in the...
Prosecutors: More than 100 bodies found in mass grave in Mexico
More than 100 bodies have been found in a mass grave in Mexico's western state of Jalisco, state prosecutors said on Sunday.
Local attorney general...
Peru’s interim president resigns after days of unrest
Peru's interim President Manuel Merino has resigned after just five days in office, in the wake of violent protests over the ousting of his...
Hurricane Eta wreaks havoc in Nicaragua and Honduras, two reported dead
Hurricane Eta lashed the Nicaraguan coast on Tuesday, causing significant damage and reportedly claiming at least two lives, one of them in neighbouring...
Hurricane Zeta moves towards Mexican peninsula, evacuations expected
Tropical storm Zeta developed into a hurricane over the Caribbean on Monday and was moving towards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with winds of 130 kilometres...
Costa Rica seizes 2.4 tons of cocaine in record 15th seizure in 2020
Costa Rican officials have seized 2.4 tons of cocaine from a container in Liverpool on the country's Caribbean coast, the country's Security Ministry said...
![Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, takes part in an international press conference at Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, on May 17, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua]](https://newsghana.com.gh/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/b8aeed990a5818a608af01-218x150.jpg "Maduro claims Venezuela has 100-per-cent effective virus treatment")
Maduro claims Venezuela has 100-per-cent effective virus treatment
Venezuela has discovered a highly effective treatment to completely eliminate the novel coronavirus without side effects, the country's president Nicolas Maduro claimed on Sunday.
A...
Nicaragua passes controversial law for ‘regulation of foreign agents’
The Nicaraguan National Assembly on Thursday approved a controversial law that requires any organization or person receiving external financing to register as a "foreign...
Six killed in gun attack on bar in El Salvador
Six people have been killed in an attack by gunmen on a bar in El Salvador, police in the Central American country said on...
Costa Rica seizes three tons of cocaine from ship bound for Antwerp
Costa Rican officials have seized almost three tons of cocaine from a container ship at the harbour of Moin on the country's Caribbean coast,...
Mexico to deploy 5,000 soldiers before arrival of dangerous hurricane
Mexico will deploy 5,000 soldiers to the eastern Yucatan Peninsula before the imminent arrival of powerful Hurricane Delta, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said...
Honduras to move embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
Honduras will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by the end of the year, President Juan Orlando Hernandez announced on...
Mexican drug cartel leader sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder of journalist
A federal judge in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua has sentenced an organized crime leader to 50 years in prison for the murder...
Eleven members of one family killed in Panama flood
Eleven members of the same family were killed during a flood in Panama on Sunday, according to the country's civil protection authorities.
The Bejuco river...
Mexico and Netherlands to meet in October soccer friendly
Mexico will end their international football hiatus with a friendly against the Netherlands in October.
The match will be played at the...
Washington using pandemic to pursue unilateralism, play blame games
The U.S. administration led by President Donald Trump is taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to pursue unilateral policies while pinning the blame for...
![[Reuters]A U.S. flag fluters at the Paso del Norte International Border bridge, in Ciudad Juarez](https://newsghana.com.gh/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cde-b-c-a-f--218x150.jpg "Mexico, U.S. extend ban on non-essential cross-border travel amid pandemic")
Mexico, U.S. extend ban on non-essential cross-border travel amid pandemic
Mexico and the United States agreed to extend a ban on non-essential travel across their shared border in a bid to contain the COVID-19...
Mexico receives 2nd shipment of medical supplies from China
A shipment of 11 tons of medical supplies arrived in Mexico from China on late Friday to help the country address the COVID-19 pandemic,...
LatAm countries turn to face masks to contain pandemic
Latin American countries are urging, and sometimes mandating, people to use face masks to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, even as global experts...
Mexico, Colombia to meet in May friendly
Mexico and Colombia will meet in a friendly in May as both teams prepare for continental tournaments, the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) said on...
At least 15 children killed in Haiti orphanage fire
At least 15 children were killed in a fire at an orphanage in an area near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, local officials reported...
Immigration across U.S.-Mexico border plunges 74.5 percent in 9 months
Immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border plunged 74.5 percent from May 2019 to January 2020, in the wake of a bilateral agreement to curb migrant...