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MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexico on Monday began Covid-19 vaccinations for adolescents with chronic diseases in the capital, the latest step in an immunization drive in one of the countries hit hardest by the pandemic. Authorities in Mexico City said they had begun using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to inoculate minors with comorbidities aged between 12 and 17 years old. Fifteen-year-old Paola Abigail Chocooj, who has diabetes, was among those participating, some in their school […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Pamela made landfall on the western coast of Mexico on Wednesday as a Category One hurricane but weakened to a tropical storm as it moved inland while bringing torrential rain, strong winds and taking down trees and poles. At 1200 GMT, Pamela crossed on to land about 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of the Pacific port of Mazatlan, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, with sustained winds of 120 kph […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Tropical Storm Pamela is expected to slam into the western coast of Mexico as a hurricane early Wednesday morning, possibly bringing life-threatening surges and dangerous winds as it makes landfall, the US National Hurricane Center warned. Overnight, Pamela was forecast to pass over the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula before accelerating towards the Pacific port city Mazatlan with tropical-storm-force winds estimated to start around 2 am (0800 GMT). […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Tropical storm Olaf strengthened into a hurricane in the Pacific on Thursday as it churned towards the beach resorts of Los Cabos on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, meteorologists said. Olaf was packing maximum winds of 75 miles (120 kilometers) per hour, making it a Category One hurricane, the lowest on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. At 1500 GMT the storm was located about 155 […]
TULA, Mexico (AFP) — Soldiers and emergency workers battled Wednesday to help thousands of victims of flooding in central Mexico that led to the deaths of more than a dozen Covid-19 hospital patients. More than 1,000 National Guard members, troops and rescuers were deployed after a river in the town of Tula in Hidalgo state burst its banks. The flooding affected about 39,000 residents, with many homes inundated within minutes. Around 1,000 people were moved […]
by Allan Garcia ACAPULCO, Mexico (AFP) — A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, leaving at least one person dead and shaking buildings in the capital several hundred kilometers away. The epicenter was 11 kilometers (seven miles) southeast of Acapulco in Guerrero state, the National Seismological Service reported. A man was killed when a utility pole fell on him in the nearby city of Coyuca de Benitez, Guerrero […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday near the Pacific coast, the National Seismological Service said, shaking buildings in the capital several hundred kilometers away. The epicenter was 11 kilometers (seven miles) southeast of the beach resort of Acapulco in Guerrero state, the service said, upgrading its estimate of the tremor’s strength. The earthquake was felt strongly in parts of Mexico City, sending residents and tourists spilling into the streets […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — At least 17 patients died after floods swept through a hospital in central Mexico, disrupting the power supply and oxygen therapy, authorities said Tuesday. The facility in the town of Tula in Hidalgo state was inundated after a river overflowed following heavy rain, the government said on Twitter. “In this honorable job there are good, very good, bad and very bad days; today is one of the latter days,” President […]
by Lucie AUBOURG Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON D.C., United States (AFP) — Rapid warming of the Arctic is likely a key driver of extreme winter weather in the United States, according to a new study that addresses a longstanding apparent contradiction in climate science and could explain events like February’s cold snap in Texas. The paper, published in the journal Science, used observational data and modeling to establish a link between planetary warming linked to human […]
Hurricane Nora made landfall Saturday near Mexico’s Pacific coastline but no casualties have been reported so far, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The Category 1 storm made landfall near Tomatlan in Mexico’s Jalisco state and will continue north towards the states of Nayarit and Sinaloa, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) reported. As it passed through Jalisco on Saturday night, the hurricane brought heavy rain that “will likely result in life-threatening flash flooding […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Two Mexican military aircraft carrying 15.4 tons of food, medicine and water landed in Haiti on Monday following a powerful earthquake that left nearly 1,300 people dead, Mexico’s government said. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Mexico would continue to help Haiti’s impoverished population after yet “another misfortune befell them.” Another shipment of 3.6 tons of emergency aid including blankets, water filters, wheelbarrows and shovels was expected to arrive later […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — The United States has promised to send 8.5 million more coronavirus vaccines to Mexico as the Latin American country battles a third wave of infections, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday. The offer came during a phone call between Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and US Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, when they also discussed migrant flows and prospects of reopening the border. “The United States is […]
