New York, May 21 (RHC)-- Johnson & Johnson says it has stopped selling its brand of talcum powder in the United States and Canada. ... More
New York, May 21 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the woman at the center of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade case ruling legalizing abortion has revealed she was later paid by the anti-abortion movement to become a prominent Christian anti-choice activist. ... More
La Paz, May 21 (RHC)-- In Bolivia, residents in the city of Cochabamba took to the streets demanding an end to the nationwide lockdown, as they say quarantine restrictions have left them unemployed, without money or food. Police in riot gear and soldiers were deployed to the protest after demonstrators set up road blockades. ... More
Washington, May 21 (RHC)-- The White House has supported President Donald Trump’s claim he’s been taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to protect himself against the coronavirus, despite warnings from the Food and Drug Administration of its potentially serious and even deadly side effects. ... More
Washington, May 21 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general is launching two new probes into the agency’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. One probe will investigate how FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has dealt with the crisis.... More
Moscow, May 21 (RHC)-- Russia considered "absurd and unjustified" the decision of the United States to include Cuba on its unilateral list of nations that supposedly refuse to collaborate in the fight against terrorism.... More
Washington, May 21 (RHC)-- The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) has published an analysis of the dangerous geopolitical games that President Donald Trump's administration seems to be eager to play as five Iranian supertankers head towards Venezuela. ... More
Mexico City, May 21 (RHC)-- In Mexico, an Associated Press investigation uncovered more than 4,500 death certificates that listed COVID-19 as a possible factor — suggesting the city’s death toll from coronavirus may be three times higher than official government figures. ... More
Brasilia, May 21 (RHC)-- In Brazil, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro plans to expand the country’s use of chloroquine for treating the coronavirus. Brazil’s Health Ministry is expected to issue the new guidelines this week. ... More
Buenos Aires, May 21 (RHC)-- Bolivia's acting president, Janine Añez, is planning to hand over the country's natural resources to transnationals, according to a tweet posted by former president Evo Morales.... More
Santiago de Chile, May 21 (RHC)-- After protests in Santiago de Chile earlier this week to demand food and work in the midst of the quarantine, military forces were deployed in several areas of the Chilean capital.... More
Brasilia, May 21 (RHC)-- Ten Latin American countries sharing borders with Brazil are concerned about the passive attitude of President Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right former captain who denied the importance of the pandemic in a country that already registers 275,087 COVID-19 cases and 18,121 dead, which makes it the epicenter of the disease in the region.... More
Havana, May 21 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has denounced that the United States has yet to make a public statement about the attack against the island's embassy in that country, 20 days after the terrorist incident.... More
Washington, May 21 (RHC)-- As a result of the coordination efforts that have taken place over the past two weeks between U.S. and Cuban authorities, Cuban citizens stranded in the United States in the midst of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus pandemic will be able to return to the island on Friday on two charter flights. ... More
Geneva, May 21 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization’s director general warned Wednesday the COVID-19 pandemic has reached a grim new milestone, with worldwide confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus topping 5 million.... More
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