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El Salvador, the most densely-populated state on the mainland of the Americas, is a small and highly-industrialised country. In the 1980s, El Salvador was ravaged by a bitter civil war stoked by gross inequality between the overwhelming majority of the population and a small and wealthy elite that left around 70,000 people dead. A UN-brokered peace agreement ended the civil war in 1992, ushering in important political reforms, but the country still suffers from the legacy of a divided society. Violent “mara” street gangs have left El Salvador with one of the world’s highest murder rates. EL SALVADOR: FACTS LEADER…

Las Vegas (KSNV) — A study has ranked the Silver State as one of the most stressed-out places in the United States. The study, conducted by WalletHub, compared all 50 states and named the top ten most and less stressful states, calling Nevada one of the top five, along with Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, and West Virginia. Experts looked at 41 metrics, ranging from average hours worked per week to the personal bankruptcy rate to the share of adults getting adequate sleep. According to WalletHub, 83% of adults are stressed out by high inflation, already adding to other sources of stress…

US President Joe Biden’s recent visit to Canada consolidated an increasingly obvious reality: Canada has fully enlisted as an obedient soldier in the United States’ cold war against China. Over the past several months, Canadian cabinet ministers have given speeches ramping up attacks on China. Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy (CIPS), released at the end of November, is driven by confrontation with China. At present, Canadian politics is dominated by claims that China interfered in the past two federal elections. Canada’s relationship with China is the worst it has been since the Korean War.  While Biden said relatively little about China while in Canada – except for…

A few days ago, US President Joe Biden spoke with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the US Naval Base in San Diego, California, about the so-called “security partnership”. trilateral between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia”, better known as AUKUS, and announced plans to equip Australia with nuclear submarines. In this story, it is above all a question, for Washington, of satisfying its own geopolitical interests. Cooperation between the United States, United Kingdom and Australia in the field of nuclear submarines involves the transfer of large quantities of weapons-grade highly enriched uranium from…

BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 28. The US is committed to peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Vedant Patel, US State Department Deputy Spokesman, said at a briefing, Trend reports. “We’ll continue to facilitate discussions between Armenia and Azerbaijan bilaterally as well as with partners, and as well as throughout multilateral organizations as well,” Patel said. He recalled that, yesterday, US Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried had a telephone conversation with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov. Source: trend

WASHINGTON: The United States is watching the court case of Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, an official has said while observing that Washington continues to engage with India on the shared commitment towards democratic principles and the protection of human rights, including freedom of expression. Gandhi was on March 23 sentenced to two years in jail by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case over his “why all thieves have Modi surname” remark. A day later, he was disqualified from the Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction in the case. “Respect for the rule of law and judicial…

By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia confirmed on Wednesday it would buy 40 Black Hawk military helicopters from the United States for an estimated A$2.8 billion ($1.96 billion), finalising a sale signed off by the U.S. State Department last August. The Lockheed Martin Corp UH-60M Black Hawks will replace the Army’s fleet of MRH-90 Taipan choppers, which have been plagued for years by maintenance issues. Delivery of the new helicopters will begin this year. “We’ve just not got the flying hours out of the Taipan that we would need,” Defence Minister Richard Marles told ABC news on Wednesday. “We’re…

Covid-19 and drug overdoses led to a second straight year of worsening life expectancy in the US – its lowest in 25 years, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control. As per the 2021 data, Americans are expected to live 76.4 years, down from a peak of 78.8 years in 2019. It also shows the US continues to rank lowest among countries with large economies. Heart disease remains the leading cause of death, followed by cancer and Covid. The data is outlined in two reports released by the CDC on Thursday: one on 2021 mortality in…