Brazil: Bolsonaro formalizes his candidacy for re-election

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro made his re-election bid official in October, giving him three months to close a double-digit gap and secure victory. The Liberal Party approved Bolsonaro’s candidacy on Sunday during its convention at a stadium in Rio de Janeiro. The endorsement was widely expected and merely symbolic, given that the far-right president has … Read more

BASEBALL – Mookie Betts hits his 200th career home run and the Dodgers triumph

Mookie Betts hit his 200th career home run, Julio Urías pitched two-hit ball in six innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 4-2 on Saturday for seven straight wins. Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman also homered for the Dodgers, who have 14 wins in their last 15 games. Gavin Lux added … Read more

Britain buys 100,000 more monkeypox vaccines

Britain has purchased another 100,000 monkeypox vaccines as the number of cases climbs to more than 2,130, most of them in London, officials said Tuesday. The British health agency said that while the epidemic is spreading, the majority of cases “continue to occur in men who are gay, bisexual or who have sex with men, … Read more

Conabios approved 471 research protocols

Santo Domingo, DR. Some 471 research protocols on different health topics have been approved to be carried out in the country in the last 11 years by the National Council of Bioethics in Health (Conabios), the governing body of biomedical research carried out in the Dominican Republic. Among the research aspects that more requests for … Read more

In today’s chapter of “Anuel-Yailín, the telenovela”, a sorcerer appears

In today’s chapter of the Anuel-Yailin media soap opera, the Dominican decided to tie up her man at any cost. For that, according to what is said in the town of imaginations, she traveled to a distant mountain to find a sorcerer who would give her an assignment so that her husband would go crazy … Read more

Two environmental activists stuck to a Van Gogh painting in London

Two environmental activists from the Just Stop Oil movement, which calls for the halting of all new fossil fuel-related infrastructure, clung to the frame of a Van Gogh painting in a London museum on Thursday. The action targeted the 1889 painting “Fishermen in Bloom,” depicting a landscape in the south of France, exhibited at the … Read more

The Mermaid Parade returns to New York, one of its most peculiar events

Disguised as pirates, sailors, fish, molluscs, octopuses, mermen and mermaids, especially mermaids, thousands of people participated this Saturday on New York’s Coney Island beach in the mythical Mermaid Parade, after a two-year hiatus for the pandemic, and which marks the unofficial start of the summer. “I’ve been participating for 30 years, every year,” Laura, a … Read more

Al Horford after Celtics loss: “Our backs are against the wall”

The Dominican Al Horford assumed that the Boston Celtics no longer have a margin of error in the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors and urged his team to face this challenge with courage and attitude and without a safety net. “Our backs are against the wall and we will have to see what … Read more

Inflation hits the family food basket in the US

Santo Domingo, DR. High food prices impact the pockets of Americans, a behavior that, according to a list of supermarkets cut in June 2022, is reflected in practically all the goods in the basket of food products of agriculture and agribusiness. How much does a basic food basket cost in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, … Read more

Boston walks at a giant step

Stephen Curry tried one of his patented floats from the left side of the rim. Klay Thompson attempted a layup from almost the same spot a few minutes later. Slightly different shots by the Golden State Warriors in the fourth quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals, with exactly the same result: the Boston … Read more