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World food prices fall for second month in July

Published on: August 6, 2021
07:17

Rome, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) World food prices eased for a second month in a row in July, reflecting declines for cereals, vegetable oils and dairy products, but remained up nearly a third over the past year, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported.

Dutch defense lines recognized for equity value

Published on: July 29, 2021
14:41

Amsterdam, (Prensa Latina) The Defense Lines of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, are currently one of the places included by the United Nations Education, Science, and Culture Organization (UNESCO) in the World Heritage List.

Iranian shooter grabs gold at Tokyo 2020 setting Olympic record

Published on: July 24, 2021
09:21

Tokyo, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) Javad Foroughi, 41, has become the oldest Iranian athlete to win an Olympic medal, grabbing gold in men´s 10-meter air pistol at Tokyo 2020.

WHO denounces lack of political commitment to vaccination

Published on: July 22, 2021
00:15

Geneva, Jul 21 (Prensa Latina) World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus denounced the lack of real political commitment to vaccination against Covid-19.

World Trade Unions condemn destabilizing attempts against Cuba

Published on: July 14, 2021
17:16

Athens, Jul 14 (Prensa Latina) The World Federation of Trade Unions on Wednesday condemned the recent destabilizing attempts arranged and financed from the United States to generate chaos and justify a foreign military intervention in Cuba.

World Organizations highlight Caricom’s importance for Haiti

Published on: July 9, 2021
10:49

Saint John, Jul 9 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations and other international organizations should support the Caribbean Community (Caricom) as the best factor to seek a peaceful solution in Haiti, said today the Caribbean diplomat and academician, Ronald Sanders.

Oxfam warns about growing threat of starvation worldwide

Published on: July 9, 2021
07:17

Geneva, Jul 9 (Prensa Latina) In 2020 there were six times more people close to starvation than in 2019, Oxfam said in a report.

‘The novel coronavirus has trapped the world’, warns WHO

Published on: July 7, 2021
16:09

Geneva, Jul 7 (Prensa Latina) The novel coronavirus has trapped the whole world, urging the planet to regain control of the Covid-19 pandemic, warned the technical responsible of the WHO, Maria Van Kerkhove this Wednesday.

World agricultural outlook stresses change of agrofood systems

Published on: July 5, 2021
15:06

Rome, Jul 5 (Prensa Latina) The World Agricultural Outlook presented here on Monday by the OECD and FAO stresses the need for the transformation of agricultural-food systems, of how the world produces, consumes and thinks about food.

Argentina calls for better and less unequal economy

Published on: June 30, 2021
13:47

Rome, Jun 30 (Prensa Latina) Argentina called for a less unequal economy and the strengthening of cooperation and solidarity mechanisms in the post-pandemic period when speaking on Wednesday at the G20 Ministerial Meeting on Foreign Relations and Development, in Matera.

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