Brasilia, December 1 (RHC)-- Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged to a 12-year high in 2020, official government data showed on Monday, with destruction soaring since President Jair Bolsonaro took office and weakened environmental enforcement.... More
New York, December 1 (RHC)-- Scientists say they have developed a way of predicting if patients will develop Alzheimer's disease by analyzing their blood, in what experts hail as a potential "game changer" in the fight against the debilitating condition.... More
New York, December 1 (RHC)-- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned of a looming “nightmare of overwhelmed hospitals,” saying he’s prepared to once again close nonessential businesses if cases keep rising. Cuomo also ordered hospitals to call up retired medical workers.... More
New York, December 1 (RHC)-- The New York Times and Washington Post are reporting the Trump campaign has raised as much as $170 million since Election Day by appealing to supporters for help with legal challenges. Much of the money will reportedly go into an account for the president to use on future political activities — or even on himself. ... More
Washington, December 1 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has one last-ditch final effort to challenge the results of the U.S. presidential election marred by accusations of vote rigging and cheating.... More
Guatemala City, December 1 (RHC)-- In Guatemala, Indigenous leaders and thousands of protesters took to the streets of the western region of Sololá as anti-government actions continued across the country for the second week. ... More
Washington, December 1 (RHC)-- Donald Trump’s handpicked coronavirus adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas, has resigned. Atlas is a former Fox News contributor and neuroradiologist from Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institution with no expertise in epidemiology or infectious disease. ... More
Washington, December 1 (RHC)-- As newly reported cases of the coronavirus continued to spike across much of the United States, breaking records for hospitalisations, some local leaders are moving to enact more stringent restrictions.... More
Paris, December 1 (RHC)-- Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy says he has been the victim of a six-year-long “slander,” in his first comments to the court at his landmark trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling.... More
Havana, November (RHC)-- The Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam, Lianys Torres Rivera, and the Prime Minister of that country, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, ratified Monday the ties of brotherhood between the two nations. On December 2, both countries celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.... More
Riyadh, December 1 (RHC)-- Saudi Arabia has agreed to let Israeli airliners cross its airspace en route to the United Arab Emirates after talks between Saudi officials and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, news agency Reuters and Israeli media outlets have reported.... More
Tehran, December 1 (RHC)-- Iran’s Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi says the country’s security forces have found a lot of new leads on the recent assassination of senior Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.... More
Havana, December 1 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister denounced that President Donald Trump's government is directly involved in financing and orienting actions of civil disobedience and illegal acts against public order in Cuba. ... More
Brussels, December 1 (RHC)-- European ecological and leftist organizations demanded on Tuesday the end of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba and recalled the rejection generated by that unilateral measure in the UN General Assembly.... More
Geneva, November 30 (RHC)-- Funding shortfalls and disruptions to treatment in sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic risk tens of thousands more lives being lost to malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in its annual report on the mosquito-borne disease on Monday.... More
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