Ottawa, April 10 (RHC)-- Canadian authorities say they have found a way around bans on the controversial weapons exports to Saudi Arabia despite growing calls for a full halt to sales of arms to a regime involved in numerous cases of human rights violations. ... More
Santiago de Chile, April 10 (RHC)-- After reports emerged of wealthy residents in Chile’s capital, Santiago, fleeing the city by helicopter and private plane for Easter, amid the coronavirus crisis, Interior Minister Gonzalo Blumel went on state television to remind them they have a “moral duty” to remain at home.... More
New York, April 10 (RHC)-- New York City officials have hired contract laborers to help bury the dead in its potter's field on Hart Island as the city's daily death rate from the coronavirus epidemic has reached grim new records in each of the last three days.... More
Washington, April 10 (RHC)-- The U.S. Labor Department revealed that over 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits over the past week, as the pace and scale of U.S. job losses is set to rival the Great Depression. ... More
Ramallah, April 10 (RHC)-- Human rights groups are calling on Israel to urgently lift its blockade of occupied Gaza and the West Bank to allow the flow of medical supplies, equipment and medical personnel needed to stem the spread of the coronavirus and to treat COVID-19 patients. ... More
Washington, April 10 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump continues to promote hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 curative, even though no clinical trials have shown the drug to be effective at treating the virus.... More
Detroit, April 10 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration says it will pay auto giant General Motors nearly half a billion dollars to manufacture 30,000 ventilators amid a critical shortage of the life-saving devices. ... More
New York, April 10 (RHC)-- Medical researchers say the novel coronavirus likely circulated undetected for weeks in New York beginning in February -- long before New York confirmed its first COVID-19 case on March 1st. ... More
Sanaa, April 10 (RHC)-- In Yemen, the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels has declared a two-week unilateral ceasefire as COVID-19 spreads across the Arabian Peninsula... More
New Delhi, April 10 (RHC)-- In environmental news, the snow-capped Himalayas are visible from cities in northern India for the first time in 30 years, as pollution levels have dropped dramatically since the enactment of a nationwide coronavirus lockdown. ... More
San Diego, April 10 (RHC)-- The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, is demanding an investigation into the Border Patrol’s abuse of pregnant migrants in their custody. ... More
New York, April 10 (RHC)-- Coronavirus cases are surging across the United States, the epicenter of the pandemic, with one person dying of COVID-19 every 47 seconds. ... More
Havana, April 10 (RHC)—Cuba reported the most significant number so far of COVID-19 positive patients recovering, 23, bringing to 51 the number of patients released from hospitals.... More
Havana, April 10 (RHC)-- A contingent of the Henry Reeve International Brigade left for Angola on Thursday to support other Cuban collaborators who are fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in that African nation.... More
Havana, April 10 (RHC)--The month of March was the driest month in Cuba since 1961, according to Granma newspaper.... More
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