Ottawa, July 15 (RHC)-- Canada’s Indigenous women are still being pressured into having their tubes tied decades after other rich countries stopped the appalling practice, a report says. A large number of activists, physicians, politicians, and at least five class-action lawsuits confirmed that the practice of forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women has not ended in Canada, The Associated Press revealed in a report issued in Ottawa.... More
New York, July 15 (RHC)-- A new report by The Wall Street Journal reveals AT&T, Verizon and other telecom companies for decades covered up the dangers of their lead-containing phone cables to workers and the environment. ... More
Miami, July 15 (RHC)-- In the Caribbean, marine biologists are warning that unprecedented ocean heat is further stressing a coral reef system that’s already on the brink of collapse. ... More
Boston, July 15 (RHC)-- The Israeli military’s deadly raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank fits into the parameters of war crimes under the Geneva Conventions, legal experts argue.... More
Santiago de Chile, July 15 (Prensa Latina)-- Chilean justice today sentenced to prison five former agents of the dissolved National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) for the kidnapping of two neighborhood leaders during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990).... More
Washington, July 15 (RHC)-- The United States saw a record of 28 mass killings in the first half of 2023, The Associated Press has reported, as policymakers struggle to curb gun violence across the country. The AP analysis, published on Friday, said 140 victims were killed during that period. All but one of the mass killings – incidents in which four or more people are slain not including the perpetrator – involved firearms.... More
Moscow, July 15 (RHC)-- Russian law enforcement has thwarted assassination attempts on RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak, which were prepared by Ukrainian intelligence, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced. Those detained were caught carrying out reconnaissance on Friday in Moscow and the Ryazan region.... More
Brasilia, July 15 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed on Friday the law that resumes the More Doctors Program, which seeks to expand public health care.... More
United Nations, July 15 (RHC)-- The climate emergency, armed conflicts, and the COVID-19 pandemic have pushed over 100 million more people into hunger around the world during the past few years, five United Nations agencies revealed in an annual report.... More
Washington, July 15 (RHC)-- Several lawyers who have had business before the U.S. Supreme Court used the online payment app "Venmo" to send money to a top aide to Justice Clarence Thomas. That’s according to The Guardian, which reports the payments to the aide, Rajan Vasisht, appear to have been made in connection to a 2019 Christmas party held by Justice Thomas. ... More
United Nations, July 15 (RHC)-- Syria has emphasized that Western countries are using illegal cross-border humanitarian operations in the Arab country’s northwestern regions to blackmail Damascus. Russia earlier this week vetoed a West-backed draft resolution at a UN Security Council session that called for an extension of aid deliveries to Syria through Turkey without the consent of Damascus.... More
Madrid, July 15 (RHC)-- Heatwaves are gripping parts of Europe, China and the United States, where record temperatures expected this weekend are a stark illustration of the dangers of a warming climate. Extreme heat advisories have been issued for more than 100 million people in the U.S. with the National Weather Service forecasting particularly dangerous conditions in the states of Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas.... More
London, July 15 (RHC)-- In Britain, some 900 Amazon warehouse workers in the city of Coventry carried out a three-day strike coinciding with Amazon Prime Day, which ran during this past week. ... More
Tunis, July 15 (RHC)-- The Tunisian coastguard has said that it has recovered the bodies of 13 sub-Saharan African migrants and rescued 25 after their boat sank in route to Italy. The tragedy occurred off the city of Sfax, the coastguard said, without saying how far off shore the boat was when it sank.... More
London, July 15 (RHC)-- The British defense secretary has said the West is not an “Amazon” delivery service for weapons shipment to Ukraine, in an extraordinary snub of Ukraine’s repeated requests for more arms to fight against Russia. ... More
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