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.

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

US health official says pandemic clearly can be controlled

12:44 am October 27, 2020

Washington: A day after White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said “we’re not going to control the pandemic,” a top Trump administration health official said Monday that Americans have already proven they can do that through basic safeguards shown to work. “I think we can control the pandemic,” Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Brett […]

60,000 in Southern California to evacuate after blaze grows

12:41 am October 27, 2020

Los Angeles: A fast-moving wildfire has forced evacuations for 60,000 people in Southern California as powerful winds across the state prompted power to be cut to hundreds of thousands to prevent utility equipment from sparking new blazes. The smoky fire in Orange County broke out just before 7 am on Monday and quickly threatened neighbourhoods […]

Donald Trump set to return to the spotlight with CPAC speech

Trump charges into battleground states despite rising virus

12:35 am October 27, 2020

Allentown: President Donald Trump on Monday embarked on a final-week charge through nearly a dozen states ahead of the election, overlooking a surge of coronavirus cases in the US and a fresh outbreak in his own White House. His Democratic rival, Joe Biden, is holding far fewer events in an effort to demonstrate that he’s taking the worsening pandemic seriously. […]

MP records 1,357 new coronavirus cases, ten deaths

Coronavirus deaths are rising again in the US, as feared

12:30 am October 27, 2020

Boise: Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the US are on the rise again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in nearly every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump over the weekend that “we’re rounding the turn, we’re doing great”. With Election Day just over a week away, average deaths per […]

US: 10 shot, 2 fatally, at post-funeral gathering in Mississippi

12:18 am October 27, 2020

Greenwood: Ten people were shot, two fatally, during a post-funeral gathering in Mississippi over the weekend, police said. Jonathan Pitts, 42, and his sister Katrina Pitts, 41, died at the scene of the shooting late Saturday in Greenwood, the Greenwood Commonwealth reported. The siblings and other relatives from Chicago were in Greenwood to attend their grandmother’s funeral, […]