New York, September 4 (RHC)-- U.S. retailers have voiced concern over an increase in thefts and violent incidents at their shops amid an ongoing cost-of-living crisis in the country. Media reports on Sunday named Walmart, Target, CVS, Walgreens, Home Depot, and Foot Locker, among other major U.S. stores, complaining about the increase in petty theft as well as organized mass theft referred to as “flash rob” attacks.... More
San Francisco, September 4 (RHC)-- In San Francisco, the U.S. state of California, tech workers and others protesters gathered outside the Google Cloud Next conference to call out Google’s contract with Israel, which uses the cloud service for its public sector and military, including to surveil Palestinians. ... More
Washington, September 4 (RHC)-- The United States is reportedly set to send controversial armor-piercing munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, despite international concerns over health risks the weaponry poses to civilians.... More
Ramallah, September 4 (RHC)-- Israeli forces, backed by drones and a helicopter, have stormed the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, sparking clashes with local Palestinians and resistance fighters. Citing local sources, the WAFA news agency reported that the occupation soldiers used more than 40 military vehicles in their raid on the Palestinian city on Monday morning.... More
Nairobi, September 4 (RHC)-- The First Africa Climate Summit opens on Monday in Kenya to highlight the continent that will suffer the most from climate change while contributing the least. Significant investment in Africa’s adaptation to climate change, including better forecasting, will be an urgent goal at the September 5th and 6th meeting. ... More
Niamey, September 4 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of protesters converged outside a French military base in Niger, demanding its 1,500 soldiers leave as France shows no sign it will comply after a coup d’etat removed the elected president.... More
Mexico City, September 3 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) says that the United States has adopted a "very misguided" strategy to fight drug trafficking at home while simultaneously allowing the consumption of some narcotics to get out of hand.... More
Guatemala City, September 3 (RHC)-- The plenary of magistrates of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Guatemala stopped this Sunday until the end of the electoral event, that is to say next October 31st, the resolution of the Registry of Citizens that had temporarily suspended the political party Movimiento Semilla.... More
Washington, September 3 (RHC)-- The Joe Biden administration has sent another deportation flight to Haiti with at least 60 asylum seekers. This came only days after the State Department urged U.S. citizens to immediately leave Haiti due to worsening violence. ... More
Guatemala City, September 3 (Prensa Latina)-- Demonstrators marched over the weekend through several streets of Guatemala City to the National Palace of Culture (headquarters of the Executive of Guatemala) in defense of democracy and to prevent a coup d'état.... More
Caracas, September 3 (RHC)-- Thousands of Venezuelans mobilized again this Saturday in support of the government of President Nicolás Maduro and in repudiation of the unilateral restrictive measures imposed on the South American nation by the United States and the European Union.... More
Bogota, September 3 (RHC)-- Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has denounced that the right-wing opposition and wealthy Spanish businessmen are planning ways to overthrow him. His statements were made during a meeting with victims of the armed conflict and signatories of the Peace Accords in the municipality of Carmen de Bolivar, where Petro recalled that Colombian history records episodes that led to decades of violence.... More
Ramallah, September 3 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has censured the latest escalation of violence by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers against Palestinian civilians and their holy sites. In a press statement cited by the official WAFA news agency on Sunday, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned the recent attacks carried out by Israeli soldiers and settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including their latest against the defenseless Palestinian civilians in the cities of Nablus and Ramallah.... More
United Nations, September 3 (RHC)-- The Committee on the Rights of the Child has said that governments must address the climate crisis and other environmental emergencies to “ensure that children are protected from foreseeable premature or unnatural death and threats to their lives … and enjoy their right to life with dignity.”... More
Port-au-Prince, September 2 (RHC)-- As a counterpart to the publication in Haiti of a popular consultation, in which 68 percent of those polled supported the deployment of foreign troops, increasing numbers of popular organizations have expressed their opposition to it.... More
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