NewsKamala Harris gets the nod as democrats' presidential candidate, a ship in Argentina quarantined due to monkeypox. This is your overnight news breakdown
Kamala Harris gets the nod as democrats' presidential candidate, a ship in Argentina quarantined due to monkeypox. This is your overnight news breakdown
Here’s what happened while you were sleeping. Here’s what the world agencies reported on the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
- Five thousand delegates during the Democratic Party’s election convention in Chicago symbolically cast their votes to approve Kamala Harris’s nomination as the candidate for the office of the President of the USA. The binding vote of the delegates was held virtually at the beginning of August.
- US President Joe Biden approved a highly classified strategic plan regarding nuclear weapons, which for the first time shifts Washington’s strategy to deter China, which is expanding its nuclear arsenal.
- A ship sailing on the Parana River in Argentina was quarantined near Rosario due to suspected monkeypox (mpox) infection in a crew member.
- Over 20 kilometres of trails were closed by police in Madeira due to a fire that had been raging for a week, which tourists were trying to approach.
- The Mexican association representing over 1,400 judges announced that it is joining the indefinite, nationwide strike against President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's proposed judicial reform.
- During a conference in Guayaquil, Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa called on Latin American countries to “jointly oppose the growing power of organized crime” in this region.
- Over 80 skulls and other human remains, taken to Sweden 150 years ago for racial research purposes, were returned to a church near Tampere. The skulls were transported from the Karolinska Institute in Solna by ship to Finland.
