Apart from income, health or education, a country’s level of development can also be gauged by looking at household items like refrigerator, television or washing machine, a team of economists has said.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has said the main problem facing the US is social decomposition, which has led to widespread drug abuse among its youth.
Over 1 million people in the Caribbean have been affected by Hurricane Beryl, UN humanitarians have said.
Mexico’s cultural philosopher Jose Vasconcelos in his widely-read 1925 essay, “The Cosmic Race,” celebrated the mixture of European, Asian, Indigenous, and African races that made up the Mexican.
Mexico's legislature could approve a bill to reform the judicial system in September, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said, downplaying market "jitters" over the controversial initiative that sparked a depreciation in the Mexican peso.
The number of confirmed cases rose by 5,437. The case load has increased by about 5,000 each day in the last two weeks, and the total now stands at 186,847.
The US Pacific Tsunami had also warned of hazardous waves in the 1,000 kilometre radius of the quake's epicentre.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who has famously compared the virus to a 'little flu,' has clashed with state and local authorities over their use of stay-at-home measures and business closures to contain it.
If conditions are deemed suitable, street markets and the historic center of the city will reopen the week of June 22-28.
It began April 3 -- the day Lopez Obrador made a public gaffe by saying the coronavirus pandemic is “like a ring to the finger” for Mexico, meaning “it fits perfectly” and it would help with innovation and transformation in Mexico.
