Baghdad, April 5 (RHC)-- Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by their Arabic name Hashd al-Sha'abi, have blasted U.S. forces based in their country as "occupiers" -- pledging to bring the occupation of the Arab country to an end. In a joint statement on Saturday, Hashd al-Sha’abi groups said from now on the U.S. troops in the Arab country will be dealt with as "occupation forces."... More
Ottawa, April 5 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has deployed the Defense Production Act (DPA) to block exports of surgical masks manufactured by the 3M company to Canada.... More
Washington, April 5 (RHC)-- The worldwide death toll from coronavirus has topped 60,000, according to a tally maintained by Johns Hopkins University. The virus passed the grim benchmark on Saturday, just two days after fatalities reached 50,000. More than 1.1 million people worldwide have been infected by the illness, the university has reported.... More
Paris, April 5 (RHC)-- The French government is considering nationalizing, for a limited period of time, those companies suffering from the financial market turmoil due to the coronavirus epidemic, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has announced.... More
Buenos Aires, April 5 (RHC)-- Argentinean President Alberto Fernandez said he was “angry, worried and annoyed with the banks” after thousands of pensioners and people receiving public financial aid queued long lines at banks amid confinement measures decreed to stop the COVID-19.... More
United Nations, April 5 (RHC)-- The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has urged the U.S. to lift its blockade against Cuba and Venezuela. Secretary Alicia Barcena said it is a necessary action at a time when COVID-19 is deteriorating the prospects of all Latin American economies.... More
Brussels, April 5 (RHC)-- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance has decided to expand its mission in Iraq by training personnel for the Iraqi army and security forces... More
London, April 5 (RHC)-- Human rights lawyer Keir Starmer was appointed this Saturday to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as head of the Labour Party, which will exercise the opposition amid the COVID-19 crisis.... More
Havana, April 5 (RHC)-- Cuba reported on Sunday 32 new cases of COVID-19, bringing to 320 the number of people diagnosed with the disease on the Caribbean island.... More
Tel Aviv, April 5 (RHC)-- Israel’s spy agency Mossad has been running clandestine operations to sneak the medical supplies ordered by countries fighting the coronavirus outbreak into Israel, a senior Mossad official has revealed.... More
New York, April 5 (RHC)-- The New York state's COVID-19 death toll rose at a devastating pace to 3,565 deaths on Saturday, up from 2,935 the previous day, the largest 24-hour jump recorded there. The state has so far recorded 113,704 positive cases - with 63,306 in New York City alone, where 2,624 have died - just 6,000 short of hard-hit Italy's total number of cases.... More
New York, April 5 (RHC)-- Unemployment in the United States is growing at an alarming rate and there have been significant job losses in the service industry. Jobs in bars, restaurants and hotels are being decimated, leaving many facing an uncertain future.... More
Prague, April 5 (RHC)-- A monument to Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, who commanded the forces that liberated Prague from the Nazis in 1945, has been removed and mocked for ‘not having a mask’ by one local official, in what Russia has condemned as an insult.... More
Geneva, April 5 (RHC)-- Syria has denounced Israel's "systematic" violations of human rights of Syrians in the Arab country's occupied Golan Heights, warning against the expansion of Israeli settlement activities there.... More
Madrid, April 4 (RHC)-- Singer-songwriter Luis Eduardo Aute, a leading light of modern Spanish song, died this Saturday at the age of 76 in a Madrid hospital, local media reported.... More
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