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


New Delhi, July 14 (RHC)-- Supplies of drinking water in New Delhi will fall by a quarter on Thursday and Friday because three treatment plants have been flooded, the city government said, as the Yamuna river overflows after incessant rain.... More


United Nations, July 14 (RHC)-- NATO is “the real troublemaker” that has fully embraced “Cold War thinking and ideological prejudice,” China’s permanent representative to the UN has claimed.... More


Rome, July 14 (RHC)-- In Italy, outrage is mounting after a judge cleared a school employee of groping a 17-year-old student, arguing the assault didn’t constitute a crime because it lasted less than 10 seconds. The student from a Rome high school reported the 66-year-old employee after the incident last year. ... More


New York, July 14 (RHC)-- In the U.S., Fox News is facing another defamation lawsuit for spreading falsehoods in the wake of the 2020 election.  Trump supporter Ray Epps sued the far-right network after former host Tucker Carlson repeatedly accused him of being an undercover FBI agent who incited the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.  Epps says he and his family have since received death threats. ... More


Washington, July 14 (RHC)-- The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has confirmed the death of an unaccompanied migrant child who had been in its custody since May.  ... More


Tel Aviv, July 14 (RHC)-- The anti-settlement organization Peace Now says the far-right cabinet of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has advanced a record number of illegal units in settlements in the occupied West Bank in the first six months of the current year. ... More


United Nations, July 14 (RHC)-- Approximately 3.3 billion people – almost half of humanity – now live in countries that spend more money paying interest on their debts than on education or health, according to a new United Nations report.​... More


London, July 14 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom has offered millions of public sector workers pay raises in a bid to end strikes triggered by a cost-of-living crisis, as thousands of junior doctors walked off the job in protest for five days.... More


Caracas, July 14 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro condemned on Thursday the attacks against the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), during the ceremony of the transfer of command of the Bolivarian Army, Bolivarian Navy, Bolivarian National Guard and Bolivarian Militia components, held in Caracas.... More


Washington, July 14 (RHC)-- A U.S. military official says Ukraine has received cluster munitions, less than a week after the United States pledged to transfer the controversial weaponry to Ukrainian forces.... More


San Franciso, July 14 (RHC)-- After an historically wet winter and a cloudy spring, California’s summer has been in full swing as a July heatwave brings high temperatures and an increased risk of wildfires to much of the southwest United States.... More


Athens, July 14 (RHC)-- A shipwreck off the coast of Greece that killed at least 81 migrants last month may have been caused by the Greek Coast Guard, which later tried to cover up its responsibility... More


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