More than 11 million people in Latin America are “marching on the brink of hunger” due to economic conditions exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, warned the head of the UN food agency, David Beasley. “The COVID-19 pandemic has just been devastating in Latin America, where economic storm clouds were already …
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The world’s largest cosmetic companies have been selling a fairy tale that often goes something like this: if your husband loses interest in you, if his colleagues fire him at work, if your talents are ignored, whiten your skin to change your love life, …
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MIAMI (AP) – Tropical Storm Hanna was upgraded to a hurricane on Saturday, advancing toward the Texas coast and threatening to bring heavy rain, storm surge, and possible tornadoes, all as another tropical storm approaches the Caribbean. Hanna is the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, the US …
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SAO PAULO (AP) – Jussara de Jesús never thought that her family would live in a shack. But work as a hairdresser dried up after the new coronavirus hit the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo. She couldn’t pay $ 150 a month in rent for the small house where she …
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