NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA

NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA COLUMN AT DEMOCRATIC ACCENT SIGNIFIES THE NEWS STORIES, ARTICLES AND OPINION FROM AMERICAN CONTINENT. IT MOSTLY COMPRISES THE LATEST GEOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA AND OTHER PROMINENT NATIONS IN THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.

VW recalls Beetles to replace Takata air bag inflators

10:23 pm December 23, 2020

Detroit: Volkswagen is recalling over 105,000 Beetles with faulty Takata front driver’s air bags that can explode and hurl shrapnel. The recall covers Beetles from the 2012 through 2014 model years. Dealers will replace the front driver’s air bags at no cost to owners starting on February 12. Takata used volatile ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate the bags in […]

Police kept Black man naked in yard while looking for teens

8:07 pm December 23, 2020

Columbia: A 71-year-old Black man in South Carolina was embarrassed and feared for his life when a police officer looking for teens who might have been breaking into cars held him outside naked and at gunpoint after he peeked out his door to check on the disturbance, the man said in a lawsuit. Body camera […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends

11:13 pm December 22, 2020

Washington: In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local JC Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must go!” posters, and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowing losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store […]

Pakistan’s Baloch political activist found dead in Canada: Reports

11:12 pm December 22, 2020

Islamabad: Pakistani political activist Karima Baloch, who campaigned extensively against disappearances and human rights violations in the troubled Balochistan province, has been found dead in Toronto, media reports here said on Tuesday. The 37-year-old activist, who was living in exile in Canada for about five years, had gone missing on Sunday. Her family filed a missing […]

Pair of passengers exit NYC flight via slide before takeoff

10:41 pm December 22, 2020

New York : A Delta flight out of New York City was halted after a man and a woman carrying a service dog exited the aircraft using an emergency slide, an airline spokesperson said Tuesday. The incident occurred on Monday as the jet was leaving for the flight from LaGuardia Airport to Atlanta, said the spokesperson […]