Mexico

Power failure: How a winter storm pushed Texas into crisis

11:50 pm February 21, 2021

Austin: Two days before the storm began, Houston’s chief elected official warned her constituents to prepare as they would for a major hurricane. Many took heed: Texans who could stocked up on food and water, while non-profits and government agencies set out to help those who couldn’t. But few foresaw the fiasco that was to come. They […]

Salma Hayek ‘sobbed’ while shooting ‘Desperado’ sex scene

3:41 pm February 16, 2021

Los Angeles: Hollywood star Salma Hayek has detailed about her experience shooting the sex scene in the 1995 film ”Desperado”, directed by Robert Rodriguez and also starring Antonio Banderas. ”Desperado” is the second installment in Rodriguez’s ”Mexico Trilogy”, which also includes the films ”El Mariachi” (1993) and ”Once Upon a Time in Mexico” (2003). Mexico-born American Hayek broke out from the action movie […]

Biden faces pressure as US sets new course on immigration

11:17 pm February 15, 2021

Washington: After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. “It seems the new president wants to help migrants,” Osorio said as he got ready to check in to a cheap hotel in downtown Tijuana before heading to the U.S. “They’re […]

Unwilling to wait, poorer countries seek their own vaccines

11:38 pm February 6, 2021

New Delhi : With coronavirus cases still climbing, Honduras got tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations programme, so the small Central American country struck out on its own, securing the shots through a private deal. Honduras “cannot wait on bureaucratic processes or misguided decisions” to give citizens “the peace of mind” offered by the COVID-19 vaccine, said Juan Carlos […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Justice Dept drops Yale admissions discrimination lawsuit

11:31 pm February 3, 2021

Washington: The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that had alleged the university was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants. The Justice Department noted in its filing that it was voluntarily dismissing the action, filed in October under the Trump administration. A judge must still sign off on it. Federal prosecutors had argued the university violated civil rights […]