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More than two decades after Guantánamo received its first inmates in 2002, the US prison on Cuban territory is dragging on.

By Marta Garde Washington, May 23 (EFE).- A bill introduced in the lower house of the United States Congress is taking aim at a longstanding feature of American life: the standard five-day, 40-hour workweek. With the pandemic having made flexible schedules much more commonplace, a Democratic congressman from California is looking to ride that wave …

By Marta Garde Washington, Nov 2 (EFE).- A record number of Black and Hispanic women candidates are running for office in this year’s midterms in the United States but the political glass ceiling of representation remains unshattered. Data from the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) reveals that 28% of the congressional candidates are …

By Marta Garde Richmond Hill, Georgia, Oct 24 (EFE).- Vashan, an electrical engineering student and supporter of then-President Donald Trump, requested an absentee ballot ahead of the United States’ November 2020 general election. The ballot was finally delivered in June of the following year, causing him initial surprise and then suspicion that its extremely late …

By Marta Garde Paris, Apr 23 (EFE).- France is on the brink of a potentially pivotal presidential election between the incumbent centrist Emmanuel Macron and the far-right Marine Le Pen but between those two candidates lies a chunk of voters who feel represented by neither and thus make the results tough to predict. “France has …

By Marta Garde Paris, Dec 21 (EFE).- Fifty years ago thirteen young French doctors decided to join forces and create Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian organization that would provide medical aid during emergencies. What started as a small and idealistic enterprise now boasts some 64,000 employees. “We wanted adventure. We wanted a different life from …

By Marta Garde Paris, Nov 27 (EFE).- France vows to do more to stop migrants trying to reach the United Kingdom by boat after this week’s deadly capsizing in the English Channel, but some of the desperate people who have made their way to the Calais coast from the Middle East and Africa told Efe …

Mexico claims pair of Un Certain Regard prizes at Cannes 2 minutes read By Marta Garde Cannes, France, Jul 16 (EFE).- A pair of movies with a Mexican director and co-producer, respectively, “Noche de Fuego” (Prayers for the Stolen) and “La civil,” were honored on Friday in the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar competition. Both pictures explore the collateral damage associated with Mexico’s endemic drug-fueled violence, with the former being told through the eyes of...

Cinephiles get their fix at world’s first cinema hotel in Paris 1 minute read By Marta Garde Paris, Apr 29 (EFE).- After the coronavirus pandemic forced cinemas to shut down across France since November, movie-lovers can once again enjoy the cinema thanks to Hotel Paradiso, the world’s first cinema hotel. The project was inaugurated just last month, but it began to take shape seven years ago, long before the lockdown took hold of Paris. “It is not a replacement for the movie theater; it...