Quito, April 20 (RHC)-- The deaths and confirmed cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America continued to increase over the weekend, with Brazil, Ecuador and Chile being the countries most affected by the virus in the region.... More


Bogota, April 20 (RHC)-- Colombia’s National Agrarian Coordinator (CNA) denounced that social leader Teodomiro Sotelo was assassinated over the weekend while working on his farm in the El Tambo municipality.... More


Buenos Aires, April 20 (RHC)-- Bolivia’s former President Evo Morales has denounced that the police entered the Cochabamba Department without taking due sanitary precautions and challenging the local population, which expelled several officers from the Shinahota Municipality.... More


Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari.  (Photo: Pulse)

Lagos, April 20 (RHC)-- Abba Kyari, the trusted chief of staff to Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari has died from complications related to COVID-19 after a nearly month-long battle with the virus.... More


Police officers detain a person during a protest against the Berlin, April 20 (RHC)-- Hundreds of activists gathered in central Berlin, defying government COVID

Berlin, April 20 (RHC)-- Hundreds of activists gathered in central Berlin, defying government COVID-19 lockdown measures and arguing the state is heading for “authoritarian rule.”  The gathering was met with a strong police response.... More


U.S. army soldiers, part of the Combined Joint Task Force, near Kirkuk in northern Iraq.  (Photo: AFP)

Baghdad, April 20 (RHC)-- An Iraqi legislator has denounced the continued presence of U.S. troops in Iraq as a “form of occupation,” calling on the Baghdad government to inform the parliament about the number of the American forces and their function.... More


Havana, April 20 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were 52 new cases of COVID-19, for an total of 1,087 positive cases across the island.  ... More


Havana, April 20 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez called attention on Monday to the importance of international cooperation in knowledge and good practices in the fight against the new coronavirus SARS Cov-2.... More


Tegucigalpa, April 20 (RHC)-- The President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, expressed on his Twitter account his gratitude to Cuba, noting that 53 Honduran doctors who are studying various specialties on the island also joined the Cuban medical personnel. ... More


San José, April 20 (RHC)-- The Costa Rican Committee for Solidarity with Cuba (CCSC) has demanded the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade that Washington has maintained against Cuba for almost six decades, which has intensified even more in recent years.... More


Brasília, April 20 (RHC)-- The National Association of Cuban Residents in Brazil Jose Marti joined the international demand calling for the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial blockade by the United States against the island.... More


Moscow, April 20 (RHC)-- The Russian press on Monday highlighted the solidarity shown by Cuba in offering the service of its doctors to other nations, amid the scourge of the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.... More


Geneva, April 20 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that there are three vaccines in the process of being clinically tested to see if they are effective in neutralizing COVID-19.... More


Brasilia, April 20 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has called for the reopening of the country’s borders, as he pushes to restart South America’s largest economy.  Still, he conceded he might be blamed if the new coronavirus outbreak worsens as a result.... More


Volunteers delivering food in the Bronx, New York.  (Photo: Twitter/@Vanessalgibson)

New York, April 20 (RHC)-- In the U.S, the African-American community is more vulnerable to COVID-19, according to social and demographic studies on the virus.... More


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