New York, April 17 (RHC)-- Medical workers at hospitals around the United States held a national day of action demanding an end to preventable healthcare worker deaths from COVID-19.... More
Washington, April 17 (RHC)-- The Labor Department reports more than 5.2 million U.S. workers filed unemployment claims in just the last seven days, bringing the number of unemployment claims over the past month to over 22 million.... More
Brasilia, April 16 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has fired his health minister after weeks of infighting and threats over the country's coronavirus strategy. ... More
Havana, April 16 (RHC)-- During the early hours on Thursday morning, an earthquake of magnitude 6.0 shook the Caribbean Sea, and was felt in several Central American countries. The epicenter of the earthquake took place 62 kilometers northeast of Guanaja, in Honduras, and was perceptible in Mexico and other islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba.... More
Washington, April 16 (RHC)-- The White House is unveiling new guidelines aimed at rolling back states’ stay-at-home orders protecting against the spread of the coronavirus. President Donald Trump’s call to wind down social distancing came as the United States recorded more than 2,400 deaths in just 24 hours — the highest one-day total for any nation since the start of the pandemic.... More
Brasilia, April 16 (RHC)-- Brazil’s legislators have cornered President Jair Bolsonaro on COVIDE-19, obliging him to show evidence of his coronavirus status. He claimed he’d tested negative twice, yet refused to make the results public.... More
Lansing, April 16 (RHC)-- Right-wingers in the U.S. state of Michigan are defying stay-at-home orders despite the threat of COVID-19 infection. Dubbed "Operation Gridlock," the Wednesday protest was organized by the so-called Michigan Conservative Coalition and Michigan Freedom Fund.... More
Brasilia, April 16 (RHC)-- In Brazili, eleven people have died in Manaus, in the state of Amazonas, during a study conducted with high doses of the drug chloroquine -- Donald Trump's favorite remedy.... More
Montevideo, April 16 (RHC)-- Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou is assessing the possible re-opening of his country's business sector. The president met with members of the Confederation of Business Chambers (CCE) to discuss the possibilities and the current economic climate in the South American nation. ... More
Amazon threatens to shut down all warehouses in France after court ruled it violated workers' safety
Paris, April 16 (RHC)-- Amazon said it may close down its warehouses in France instead of limiting its operations to the delivery of essential goods, after a court ruled that it has failed to protect its workers’ safety.... More
Havana, April 16 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were 48 new cases of COVID-19, for an total of 862 positive cases across the island. ... More
Havana, April 20 (RHC)-- The Cuban Foreign Ministry has issued a statement on the COVID19 and its unprecedented impact in the world, as well as on the need of urgent collective response. Full text of the document follows.... More
Havana, April 16 (RHC)-- Cuba has called on international community to act swiftly if it wants a fairer global order in a post-COVID19 world.... More
Brussels, April 16 (RHC)-- The US government is taking its blockade against Cuba to a criminal cynicism that ignores limits, and it does so in times when solidarity should be imposed, the Belgian organization Los Amigos de Cuba denounced Thursday.... More
Havana, April 16 (RHC)-- Cuba has ratified the socialist character of the Revolution on the 59th anniversary of the proclamation of the humanist and inclusive ideology of the revolutionary process that triumphed on January 1, 1959.... More
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