Washington, August 12 (RHC)-- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is considering a measure to block U.S. citizens and permanent residents from returning home if they are suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus, according to the New York Times and Reuters News Agency.... More


Saudi forces in military exercises at a base in Yemen’s southern embattled city of Aden.  (Photo: Press TV)

Brussels, August 12 (RHC)-- Belgium’s highest administrative court has suspended issuing arms export licenses for a number of Belgian companies in a bid to block the flow of arms to Saudi Arabia over its poor human rights record and the bloody campaign against Yemen.... More


Atlanta, August 12 (RHC)-- Nearly 600 children were admitted to U.S. hospitals with a rare inflammatory syndrome associated with the novel coronavirus over four months during the peak of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report.... More


The Big Ten and Pac-12 college athletic conferences each voted to postpone their fall sports seasons, including football games — a multibillion-dollar industry and major source of revenue to universities. ... More


Washington, August 12 (RHC)-- More than 100,000 cases of C0VID-19 are being reported daily in the Americas, half of them in the United States, and there are worrisome spikes in countries that had outbreaks controlled, such as Argentina and Colombia, World Health Organization regional director Carissa Etienne has said.... More


Havana, August 12 ((RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported 35 new cases detected yesterday of COVID-19, for a total of 3,128 positive cases across the island.  ... More


Havana, August 12 (RHC)-- Children's theater director Rubén Darío Salazar and designer Zenén Calero will receive on Wednesday the 2020 National Theater Award, granted by the Cuban National Performing Arts Council... More


Gaza City, August 12 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has carried out overnight airstrikes and artillery attacks on several parts of the besieged Gaza Strip, with no immediate reports of casualties.... More


New York, August 11 (RHC)-- Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, leader of the most progressive wing of her party, on Tuesday called the recent executive orders of U.S. President Donald Trump to extend aid to the unemployed affected by the coronavirus crisis a "hoax."... More


Santiago de Chile, August 11 (RHC)-- More protests took place in southern Chile in support of the Mapuche cause and 27 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike in several prisons in the Araucania region.... More


Santiago de Chile, August 11 (RHC)-- The spokeswoman for the Mapuche community in Chile, Giovana Tafilo, reported on Tuesday that the state of health of spiritual advisor Celestino Córdova continues to worsen as a result of his 100-day hunger strike.... More


La Paz, August 11 (RHC)-- The Public Prosecutor's Office in La Paz, Bolivia, reports that it has admitted the complaint against former president Evo Morales, the leader of the Bolivian Workers' Central (COB), Juan Carlos Huarachi, and the candidates of the Movement for Socialism-Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS-Ipsp) Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca.... More


 155 mm self-propelled howitzers deployed in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel on the Lebanese border.  (Photo: AFP)

Beirut, August 11 (RHC)-- Three Israeli battle tanks have encroached upon a technical fence that separates Lebanon from the occupied territories amid tensions between the Tel Aviv regime and Hezbollah resistance movement, whose member was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria last month.... More


Havana, August 11 (RHC) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Tuesday expressed his certainty that scientists of BioCubaFarma Research Center will obtain a vaccine against COVID-19.... More


Washington, August 11 (RHC)—In the United States, presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden announced Tuesday he had chosen Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) as his running mate.... More


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