Havana, February 4 (RHC)-- The leader of the Workers' Party in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, Paulo Pimenta, has condemned the US smear campaign against Cuba´s international medical assistance.... More
Beijing, February 4 (RHC)-- China has accused the United States of creating panic across the world over the fast-spreading coronavirus, which has caused over 360 deaths since early January.... More
La Paz, February 4 (RHC)-- Right-wing parties in Bolivia have failed to create a unified bloc to contest former president Evo Morales' party Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in the upcoming general election in May.... More
Tel Aviv, February 4 (RHC)-- The ministry of military affairs of the Israeli regime has announced that it recently conducted a launch test of a “rocket propulsion system from a base in the center of the country.” The ministry refused to disclose any additional details regarding the nature of the missile, contrary to its usual conduct following satellite launcher and missile interceptor tests.... More
Moscow, February 4 (RHC)-- Russia doubts the viability of the new peace plan for the Middle East recently unveiled by Donald Trump, as it is incompatible with UN decisions on the matter and does not sit well with the Arab world.... More
Managua, February 4 (RHC)-- In Nicaragua, six indigenous environmental leaders have been assassinated after a group of at least 80 armed men raided the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve — the second-largest rainforest in the Americas after the Amazon. ... More
Washington, February 4 (RHC)-- The United States dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 than any other year since the Pentagon began keeping a record in 2006. ... More
Sydney, February 4 (RHC)-- In Australia, dozens of koalas have been killed or injured at a timber plantation in the southeastern state of Victoria, where environmentalists say they were bulldozed in order to harvest the blue gum trees, a vital koala habitat. ... More
Washington, February 3 (RHC)-- Fifty U.S. congresswomen have penned a scathing letter to Donald Trump, lambasting the Republican president for his "continuing derogation of women" in both rhetoric and policy. "It is most shameful that the words young girls and boys hear directed at women from the upper echelons of power are dripping with disdain and disrespect," read the letter released in Washington.... More
New York, February 3 (RHC)-- Two billionaire Democratic presidential hopefuls, Michael Bloomberg and Tom Steyer, collectively spent about $389 million last year on their campaigns, more than the rest of the remaining Democratic field combined, according to disclosures filed over the weekend.... More
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has urged WHO’s 196 member countries to “invest in preparedness,” not “panic.”... More
Geneva, February 3 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) says it does not recommend trade and travel restrictions in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak. But that has not stopped at least 22 countries from imposing some form of travel restrictions on people coming from China.... More
Santiago de Chile, February 3 (RHC)-- Chile’s National Office for Emergency issued Sunday a Red Alert for the municipalities of Temuco and Lumaco after a forest fire broke out in the area.... More
Vatican City, February 3 (RHC)-- Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez and Pope Francis talked about their home country's current situation in a private audience in the papal library, Reuters News Agency reported.... More
Moscow, February 3 (RHC)-- Russia has reported its first two cases of coronavirus that has killed over 300 people in China and prompted the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency. Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said the two cases were discovered in different parts of the country, one in Tyumen region in west Siberia, the other in Russia's Far East.... More
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