Brasilia, May 6 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Lula da Silva has invited the South American presidents to a meeting on May 30 in Brasilia, where he will seek to promote regional integration. The meeting would seek to reactivate cooperation agenda in key areas such as health, climate change, defense, the fight against transnational crime, infrastructure, and energy.... More
London, May 6 (RHC)-- The Coronation of King Charles III in London’s historic Westminster Abbey, the first in the United Kingdom for seven decades, drew thousands of people into the streets to protest against the antiquated monarchical system.... More
London, May 6 (RHC)-- British police have arrested leading republican movement and other organizers of an anti-monarchist protest, ahead of King Charles' coronation on Saturday. A photo posted on Twitter showed Graham Smith, head of anti-monarchist group Republic, sitting on the ground surrounded by a group of police officers. An officer at the scene said several republican protesters had been arrested.... More
Ramallah, May 6 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Authority (PA) warns that the continuation of the recent escalation in the Israeli regime's daily crimes against Palestinians could have dire consequences for the entire region.... More
Kingston, May 6 (RHC)-- The Jamaican government intends to hold a self-determination referendum in 2024 to become independent of the British monarchy and have its own head of state.... More
Atlanta, May 6 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Georgia, at least three people were killed in two separate shootings Thursday. A gunman is accused of killing his mother and grandmother at their homes and a McDonald’s store manager in Moultrie. The suspect then took his own life. This came a day after another shooting in Atlanta left at least one person dead and four injured.... More
New York, May 6 (RHC)-- The death of a 30-year-old homeless Black man, who was killed when a white man put him in a chokehold on the New York City subway, has led to widespread outcry and protests in the United States.... More
Washington, May 6 (RHC)-- Documents obtained by ProPublica and published earlier this week reveal that billionaire real estate tycoon Harlan Crow paid tens of thousands of dollars for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' grandnephew to attend two elite private schools.... More
London, May 6 (RHC)-- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said the United Kingdom will contribute more than $101 million (80 million pounds) to Brazil’s Amazon Fund, an initiative that seeks to stop deforestation in the sprawling South American rainforest.... More
La Paz, May 5 (RHC)-- Following a 10-hour debate, the Bolivian Senate on Friday approved the "Law for the purchase of gold to strengthen the International Reserves." Before the vote, Economy Minister Marcelo Montenegro and interim Bolivian Central Bank (BCB) president Edwin Rojas explained the details of the law to legislators.... More
Geneva, May 5 (RHC)-- COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a “global health emergency”, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. The announcement on Friday came more than three years after the United Nations health agency declared its highest level of alert over the devastating virus, which triggered lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of people worldwide.... More
Ottawa, May 5 (RHC)-- Calls are once again ringing out in Canada and the United States for action to stop violence against Indigenous women and girls, a persistent problem that has devastated communities across North America for decades.... More
Melbourne, May 5 (RHC)-- On the eve of King Charles’s coronation, Indigenous leaders from around the globe have called on the British monarch to apologize and make amends for genocide. Australian Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe said the harmful effect of colonization was still being felt by Indigenous people today. She noted that in 1935, Indigenous Australian leader and activist William Cooper wrote to King George V and included a petition signed by 1,814 Indigenous people, requesting “that His Majesty would intervene through medium of Majesty’s Government in the Commonwealth of Australia … to prevent the extinction of the Aboriginal race.”... More
Kingston, May 5 (RHC)-- As King Charles prepares for his coronation on Saturday, Indigenous leaders in former British colonies are calling on the monarch to apologize, pay reparations and “acknowledge the horrific impacts on and legacy of genocide and colonization of the indigenous and enslaved peoples.” They are also demanding the repatriation of the remains and cultural artifacts of Indigenous peoples. ... More
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