Tehran, May 18 (RHC)-- Iran is shipping tons of gasoline to Venezuela in defiance of U.S. sanctions on both countries in a symbolic move guaranteed by Tehran’s missile prowess.... More
Geneva, May 18 (RHC)-- Spraying disinfectant on the streets, as practiced in some countries, does not eliminate the new coronavirus and even poses a health risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.... More
Brasilia, May 18 (RHC)-- Latin American countries have reported a further increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths, as some are gradually reopening their economies.... More
San Juan, May 18 (RHC)-- Puerto Rico's Governor Wanda Vazquez has announced that she will hold a non-binding referendum in November to decide whether Puerto Rico should become a U.S. state, a move that comes amid growing disillusion with the island’s U.S. territorial status.... More
Havana, May 18 (RHC)-- The Interreligious Platform of Cuba issued a statement reputiating the most recent hostile actions of the United States against the island as well as Washington's genocidal blockade of Cuba.... More
Washington, May 18 (RHC)-- A resolution introduced in the legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota calls for medical and scientific collaboration with Cuba to address the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the world.... More
Bern, May 18 (RHC)-- The Swiss-Cuban Association condemned the media campaign launched by the United States to defame the Caribbean nation's medical collaboration with other countries, diplomatic sources said.... More
Washington, May 18 (RHC)-- There are now over 4.7 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus and more than 315,000 known deaths around the world. Here in the United States, official cases are nearing 1.5 million, with almost 90,000 deaths, representing over one-quarter of all fatalities and almost one-third of the confirmed cases — this despite the U.S. having less than 5% of the world’s population.... More
Rome, May 18 (RHC)-- Italy, once the hardest-hit European nation, is further easing its lockdown measures. Shops, hair salons, restaurants and bars reopened for business today, Monday. Italy will also allow travelers from within Europe to enter without quarantining beginning in June. ... More
Washington, May 18 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has named Moncef Slaoui, a former executive at pGlaxoSmithKline, and Army General Gustave Perna to lead the effort to develop a coronavirus vaccine, which Trump has dubbed “Operation Warp Speed.” ... More
Brasilia, May 18 (RHC)-- Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has appointed General Eduardo Pazuello as acting Health Minister amid the crisis prompted by the resignation of the last two health ministers, both of whom disagreed with the president's vision on how to fight the pandemic.... More
Washington, May 18 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration rebuked the top U.S. health agency, saying "it let the country down" on providing testing crucial to the battle against the coronavirus outbreak.... More
Brasilia, May 18 (RHC)-- Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro continues to defy advice on social distancing even as the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil worsens. On Sunday, he plucked children from a crowd of supporters for selfie-photos, as the country's outbreak becomes larger than Spain and Italy.... More
London, May 18 (RHC)-- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says there might never be a vaccine for COVID-19 despite the huge global effort to develop one.... More
Gaza City, May 18 (RHC)-- The spokesperson for the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has slammed the formation of the new Israeli cabinet as a union between “war criminals and Israel’s far right”, calling for Palestinian unity to counter it.... More
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