VOA News Brazil has announced an agreement with a U.S. university to develop a vaccine against the Zika virus within 12 months. At a news conference Thursday, Health Minister Marcelo Castro said the Brazilian government will invest $1.9 million towards the partnership between the University of Texas and Brazil’s Evandro Chagas Institute over the next […]Load more...
Reuters BRASILIA—Brazilian health authorities believe three adults died last year of suspected complications related to the Zika virus, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.Researchers found the virus in the body of a 20-year-old woman who died in April from respiratory problems, a ministry spokesman said, confirming a report in O Estado de S. Paulo and […]Load more...
Reuters February 11, 2016 9:03 AM NEW YORK—New York Fashion Week opens on Thursday with chilly weather and perhaps an even chillier prospect: defining the purpose of the shows as brands begintrying fresh ways to engage customers. This season, the once-exclusive event will occupy a middle ground between invitation-only and fashion-for-all, with a mix of […]Load more...
On this day in 2012, Whitney Houston, one of the world’s top-selling singers from the mid-1980s to late 1990s, is found dead in the bathtub of her suite at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Houston’s death was the result of accidental drowning; heart disease and cocaine, which was found in her system, […]Load more...
Reuters BERLIN—George Clooney will be in town on Thursday when «Hail, Caesar!» opens the annual Berlin Film Festival, and Meryl Streep is the competition jury president, but the politically attuned showcase hopes to attract refugees as well as film fans this year.The festival that began in 1951, when Europe was recovering from a war that […]Load more...
Elizabeth Lee LOS ANGELES—With the U.S. presidential campaign in full swing, the candidates are providing an endless source of material for actors and comedians to take to their own stages. In Hollywood, a comedy show called «Candidate Confessions» is drawing crowds who enjoy laughing at the antics of the presidential contenders. At the Second […]Load more...
On this day in 1776, Georgia’s royal governor, Sir James Wright, escapes from his residence in Savannah to the safety of a waiting British warship, the HMS Scarborough and returns to London. Governor Wright had been taken into custody and placed under house arrest nearly a month earlier on January 18, 1776, by Patriots under the command […]Load more...
On this day in 1861, Jefferson Davis, a former U.S. senator from Mississippi who served as U.S. secretary of war in the 1850s, received word he has been selected president of the new Confederate States of America. Delegates at the Confederacy’s constitutional convention in Montgomery, Alabama chose him for the job. Davis remained president of […]Load more...
La Corte Suprema de Justicia de Estados Unidos decidió suspender un ambicioso programa del gobierno que limita de forma draconiana las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero de las centrales eléctricas. El tribunal suspendió temporalmente la aplicación del Clean Power Plan (‘Proyecto para una Energía Limpia’), elaborado por la Agencia de Protección del Ambiente (EPA) […]Load more...
El presidente Barack Obama anunció el martes un nuevo esfuerzo centralizado para incrementar la seguridad cibernética en el país. Obama dijo que los sistemas de computación del gobierno federal son demasiado arcaicos y no están preparados para proteger de ataques cibernéticos las enormes cantidades de importantes datos que almacenan. “Hoy estamos proponiendo un nuevo plan […]Load more...
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