Ramallah, October 23 (RHC)-- Israel has reportedly run a secret diplomatic mission in Bahrain for more than a decade through a front company listed as a commercial consulting firm, before Bahraini and Israeli officials signed a joint communiqué to officially establish bilateral diplomatic relations.... More
United Nations, October 23 (RHC)-- International donors have pledged $1.7 billion in humanitarian aid for countries in the conflict-hit Sahel region, surpassing by $300 million the fundraising target of a virtual conference, according to the United Nations.... More
Tulsa, October 23 (RHC)-- In Tulsa, Oklahoma, archaeologists have found a mass grave containing at least 10 coffins during a search for victims of one of the worst massacres of African Americans in U.S. history. ... More
New York, October 23 (RHC)-- Purdue Pharma has agreed to an $8 billion settlement with the Justice Department over its illegal marketing of the powerful opioid OxyContin. Under the deal, the Purdue corporation will plead guilty to three criminal counts, but no one — not even members of the billionaire Sackler family who own Purdue — will face any jail time. ... More
San Francisco, October 23 (RHC)-- A California appeals court has ordered prison authorities to cut the population of the overcrowded San Quentin State Prison in half, following a massive coronavirus outbreak that killed 28 prisoners and infected 2,200, about three-quarters of the prison population. ... More
Havana, Oct 23 (RHC) Cuba released new legal provisions that offer more guarantees to businesses with foreign capital and avoid damages to investors.... More
Havana, October 23 (RHC)-- Cuba will transfer its current pro tempore presidency of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) to Costa Rica next Monday, October 26.... More
Havana, Oct 23 (RHC) The National Director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Francisco Duran reported this Friday 58 new cases with Covid-19, after the study of 7107 samples in all the laboratories of molecular biology.... More
Havana, October 23 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said on Friday that for the Island, 2020 had been the most costly year in the US blockade history.... More
Santa Clara, Cuba, October 23 (RHC)-- Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel, concludes this Friday his governmental visit to the central province of Villa Clara. He started the day by paying tribute to Commander Ernesto Che Guevara in the memorial that keeps his remains together with the fallen comrades in the Bolivian guerrilla in Santa Clara.... More
Paris, October 23 (RHC)-- Coronavirus curfews in France will be extended to include some two-thirds of the population, with the country reporting a record 41,622 new confirmed cases of the disease in one 24-hour period.... More
Dublin, October 23 (RHC)-- Ireland has decided to impose a national lockdown for six weeks that has been described by the Irish government itself as the harshest in Europe – all to curb the spread of COVID-19 that has been topping record levels for days.... More
London, October 23 (RHC)-- Protesters gathered in London to condemn what they see as the complicity of The Guardian Newspaper in the persecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The whistleblower is currently imprisoned and on trial to be possibly extradited to the United States.... More
Ramallah, October 22 (RHC)-- Palestinian prisoner Maher al-Akhras is entering a medically “critical phase,” the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warns, as the inmate has entered the 88th consecutive day of his open-ended hunger strike against Israel’s so-called policy of administrative detention.... More
Washington, October 22 (RHC)-- The confirmed U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has topped 222,000, as a new report by Columbia University researchers blasted the Donald Trump administration over its disastrous handling of the pandemic. ... More
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