London, December 12 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom Supreme Court on Friday allowed a 14 billion pounds ($18.5 billion) class action to proceed against Mastercard for allegedly overcharging more than 46 million people in Britain over a 15-year period in a landmark judgement.... More
Havana, December 11 (RHC) The governments of Cuba and Canada ratified this Friday the willingness to deepen their bilateral ties on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations.... More
Havana, December 11 (RHC)-- Cuba will maintain from January 1, 2021, the subsidies to specific products and services, although it will eliminate others as part of the process of monetary order, official sources indicated on Friday.... More
Washington, December 11 (RHC)-- The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected the lawsuit filed by Texas that sought to overturn Joe Biden's election victory in four battleground states. President Donald Trump called the case "the big one," and 126 of the 196 Republicans in the House urged the court to take it. But the justices acted quickly to turn it down.... More
Caracas, December 11 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan Government has announced the capture of two individuals who planned to place explosives at the El Palito oil refinery, located in the northern state of Carabobo. Appearing on a radio and TV report, Venezuelan Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami disclosed details of a sabotage plan to attack the refinery. ... More
Havana, December 11 (RHC)--Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel rejected on Friday the attempts to apply a soft coup in the country and called for confronting political provocations that are part of that strategy.... More
Gaza City, December 11 (RHC)-- Authorities in the Gaza Strip have invoked a two-day curfew to help combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The tiny enclave has been witnessing a sharp increase in the number of infections in recent weeks. More than 27,000 cases have been detected.... More
San Pedro Sula, December 11 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Hondurans trying to start a new caravan to reach the United States border were stopped by Honduran security personnel before they could even reach the border with neighboring Guatemala.... More
Washington, December 11 (RHC)-- In U.S. immigration news, the Donald Trump administration has agreed to extend temporary protected status for people from Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti, Sudan and Nepal until at least October 2021. ... More
San Francisco, December 11 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, coronavirus cases inside prisons have once again skyrocketed with more than 4,000 active infections among prisoners — the highest number since the pandemic began. ... More
Atlanta, December 11 (RHC)-- The U.S. recorded another staggering toll from COVID-19 on Thursday, with over 224,000 new infections and nearly 3,000 deaths. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that for the next 60 to 90 days the U.S. will likely see more COVID-19 deaths per day than the number of people killed in the September 11th attacks -- over 3,000 daily.... More
Tenerife, December 11 (RHC)-- A refugee crisis is brewing in the Canary Islands, where tens of thousands of people fleeing northern and west Africa have arrived in recent months. More than 8,000 refugees and migrants arrived in the Spanish archipelago – situated off the coast of northwest Africa – in November alone, a record figure.... More
Guatemala City, December 11 (RHC)-- More than 400,000 people in Honduras and Guatemala are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, a refugee rights group said on Wednesday, over a month after two major tropical storms inflicted widespread devastation on the two Central American countries.... More
United Nations, December 11 (RHC)-- Despite calls for ceasefires and compassion amid the coronavirus pandemic, violence and persecution have continued to force people from their homes, with record numbers now displaced, says the United Nations.... More
United Nations, December 11 (RHC)-- The Earth remains on course to warm beyond 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit) by the end of the century despite a dip in greenhouse gas emissions due to the coronavirus pandemic.... More
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