New York, March 15 (RHC)-- In New York City, a lawyer for Donald Trump says the former president will decline to appear before a grand jury investigating hush-money payments made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.... More
San Jose, March 15 (RHC)-- The Surveillance Directorate of Costa Rica's Ministry of Health reported on Monday that the country has accumulated 206 cases of mpox since June 2022 until March 6 this year. ... More
Stockholm, March 15 (RHC)-- A new study finds the United States remains the world’s top arms trader. ... More
Washington, March 15 (RHC)-- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the domestic United States intelligence agency, has found that hate crimes rose nearly 12 percent from 2020 to 2021, driven primarily by crimes based on race and ethnicity.... More
Ramallah, March 15 (RHC)-- A Palestinian rights group says Israel has demolished or closed over 180 Palestinian facilities across the occupied West Bank and and al-Quds since February. The SHAMS Human Rights and Democracy Media Center said in its monthly report that at least nine Palestinians were forced to demolish their own facilities under the pretext of being built without a so-called permit, which is almost impossible to obtain.... More
Mexico City, March 15 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has dismissed U.S. State Department travel advisories that recommend Americans avoid vacationing in Mexico. "Mexico is safer than the United States," Lopez Obrador told reporters at his daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City.... More
Tegucigalpa, March 14 (RHC)-- In Honduras, President Xiomara Castro has legalized the use of emergency contraceptive medication, overturning a ban that was over a decade old. Her executive order was issued on International Women’s Day last week. ... More
Washington, March 14 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden is trying to shore up confidence in the U.S. banking system, after the rapid collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank sparked investor panic. They were the second- and third-largest bank failures in U.S. history. ... More
Brasilia, March 14 (RHC)-- Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) has announced the provisional release of another 130 people detained for the January 8 coup acts in Brasilia. The provisional release granted to "more than 130 men accused of the terrorist, anti-democratic acts and destruction of public buildings on January 8," was issued by Judge Alexandre de Moraes. ... More
Maputo, March 14 (RHC)-- More than 100 people have been killed in Malawi and Mozambique after Cyclone Freddy, packing powerful winds and torrential rain, returned to Southern Africa’s mainland. Freddy barrelled through Southern Africa at the weekend for the second time in a few weeks, making a comeback after it first hit in late February.... More
Atlanta, March 14 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Georgia, an independent autopsy of an activist who was fatally shot by Atlanta police in January concludes their hands were raised when they were killed. ... More
Washington, March 14 (RHC)-- The Biden administration says it will bar future oil and gas leasing for 3 million acres of federal waters in the Arctic Ocean and will limit drilling in a further 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska’s North Slope. ... More
Doha, March 14 (RHC)-- Representatives from the world’s poorest nations gathered for a five-day conference to determine how to achieve crucial development goals – from food security to access to clean energy by 2030.... More
United Nations, March 14 (RHC)-- The head of the United Nations called for scientists to serve up “cold hard facts” to push governments into making policies that curb climate change before a key global warming threshold is passed.... More
Geneva, March 14 (RHC)-- Around 200 current and former world leaders, Nobel laureates, health and faith leaders, and activists this week marked the third anniversary of the World Health Organization's COVID-19 pandemic declaration by taking aim at the "vaccine apartheid" that according to one advocacy group was responsible for one death every 24 seconds during the outbreak's first year alone.... More
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