Bill Gates rejects opening vaccine patents A suggestion to waive patent restrictions on COVID-19 vaccines has been rejected by multi-billionaire Bill Gates, who said he doesn’t believe the intellectual property has anything to do with the drawn-out global effort to rein in the pandemic.

More than 150 billion dollars of Venezuelans' money would be delivered to opposition forcesVenezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has denounced that the money frozen and sequestered to his country in the banks of the world and the federal reserve of the United States are being delivered to the "mafias" of the opposition right-wing.

U.S. was by far the world's biggest spender, with Washington accounting for 39 percent of total global military expenditure in 2020  Lockheed Martin/Handout via ReutersGlobal military expenditure rose by 2.6 percent to $1.98 trillion last year even as some countries reallocated their defense funds to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in a report issued on Monday.

In addition to popular movements from countries such as Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia, Venezuela participates with representatives of its Foreign Ministry. | Photo: @evoespuebloThe former president of Bolivia and leader of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), Evo Morales, welcomed this Saturday the regional delegations participating in the first meeting of the technical team for the formation of RUNASUR.

Latin American multi-state television news channel, teleSURThe Web page of the Latin American multi-state television news channel, teleSUR, highlights this Sunday on its front page the new world day of support for Cuba and against the blockade that the U.S. has maintained for almost 60 years.