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Month: April 2022

Colombia eliminará el uso obligatorio de mascarillas en espacios cerrados desde el 1 de mayo

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — El uso obligatorio de mascarillas en espacios cerrados tiene los días contados en Colombia, según anunció el presidente de Colombia, Iván Duque, este lunes. Según Duque, a partir del primero de mayo se retirará el uso de la mascarilla en espacios cerrados “con excepción de los servicios de salud,

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US oil sinks below $100 on China Covid concerns

CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Matt Egan, CNN Business Oil prices fell sharply Monday as Covid lockdowns in China stoked concerns that the country’s zero-Covid strategy will sap energy demand in the world’s second-largest economy. US oil dropped 5.6% to a two-week low of $96.33 a barrel Monday morning, while Brent, the world benchmark, fell 4.9% to

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“Voces de abril”: usuarios de Internet en China protestan contra la censura de un video sobre el confinamiento en Shanghái

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Los gritos de los residentes encerrados exigiendo necesidades básicas, los llantos de los bebés separados de sus padres en cuarentena, las súplicas de un hijo rechazado repetidamente por los hospitales para tratar a su padre gravemente enfermo y los sollozos de una exhausta funcionaria local que admite que “no hay

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La OEA califica la ocupación de sus oficinas en Managua como “ilegítima” y exige al Gobierno “el respeto a las obligaciones”

Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN Español) — La Secretaría General de la OEA, mediante un comunicado de prensa emitido este domingo, calificó la ocupación de sus oficinas en Managua, Nicaragua, como ilegítima y una “violación de las más elementales normas internacionales”. La organización reiteró que el retiro del país centroamericano del organismo solo tendrá efecto a

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Opinion: Spending on consumer goods will likely plummet in the second half of the year

Opinion by Gad Levanon for CNN Business Perspectives With the fear of Covid-19 on the wane, consumers are spending much more on in-person services, like travel and entertainment, powering an impressive comeback in that sector. However, something has got to give. And that something is consumer spending on goods, like clothing, furniture, appliances and recreational

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Biden administration adds nine rare respiratory cancers with ties to burn pits to list of service-connected disabilities

By Arlette Saenz, CNN The Department of Veterans Affairs is issuing a rule that will add nine rare respiratory cancers to its list of presumptive service-connected disabilities for veterans exposed to toxins in burn pits during their military service, President Joe Biden announced Monday. “In my State of the Union address, I announced that we

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Twitter has been focused on ‘healthy conversations.’ Elon Musk could change that

CNN, CNNBUSINESS By Sara Ashley O’Brien and Clare Duffy, CNN Business Four years ago, Twitter cofounder and then-CEO Jack Dorsey laid out four key focus areas that would propel the company’s growth. Among them: promoting “healthy conversation” on the platform. After years of criticism for Twitter’s apparent failures to prevent its platform from turning toxic,

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