Paris, February 25 (RHC)-- French energy giant Total has been sued in a new lawsuit by two individuals who were allegedly imprisoned and tortured at one of the company's gas plants in Yemen. In the lawsuit reported by media on Thursday, the lawyers of the two Yemeni men said their clients were jailed and tortured by Emirati forces at the company's gas plant in Balhaf, Yemen.... More
Damascus, February 25 (RHC)-- Several planes carrying humanitarian aid have arrived at the Damascus international airport in Syria after the earthquake that struck the country on February 6th and has left more than 5,900 dead in the Arab country.... More
Canberra, February 25 (RHC)-- Two refugees on the tiny island nation of Nauru — a five-hour plane journey from Australia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean — have sewn their lips together in protest against their almost decade-long detention on the island.... More
Ottawa, February 25 (RHC)-- Thousands of asylum seekers crossing irregularly into Canada from the United States along a dirt path are becoming a political flashpoint once more as the provincial government of Quebec says it can no longer accommodate the rising numbers.... More
San Salvador, February 25 (RHC)-- The Central American nation of El Salvador has transferred 2,000 people accused of gang membership to a recently opened “mega-prison”. The transfer comes after a wave of anti-gang operations in which police swept up more than 64,000 people and key civil liberties were suspended.... More
United Nations, February 25 (RHC)-- Representatives from all 193 UN-member states are convening in hopes of agreeing on a new treaty to protect the world’s oceans and their biodiversity. A round of talks last summer was suspended after participants were unable to reach an agreement on financing, among other issues. ... More
Maputo, February 25 (RHC)-- Mozambicans have taken shelter as Tropical Storm Freddy made landfall and heavy rains are expected to batter the country’s southern provinces for several days.... More
Lima, February 25 (RHC)-- Peru’s designated-president Dina Boluarte has ordered the “definitive removal” of the country’s ambassador to Mexico after rebuking Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for again voicing his support for her overthrown predecessor.... More
Ankara, February 25 (RHC)-- The number of people killed by the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria earlier this month has now passed 50,000, according to the latest figures from both countries. In Turkey alone, 44,218 people died as a result of the earthquakes, the country’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said on Friday, while the latest announced death toll in Syria was 5,914.... More
Quito, February 25 (RHC)-- The president of the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), Leonidas Iza, said that President Guillermo Lasso broke the agreements of the dialogue tables on the development of mining activities and denounced that the public force used violence against community members who oppose mining projects that damage the environment and their communities.... More
Mexico City, February 24 (RHC)-- The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, reiterated this Friday his support to the people of Peru and to the former president of that country, Pedro Castillo, during his usual morning press conference.... More
La Paz, February 24 (RHC)-- Bolivia’s Presidency Minister Maria-Nela Prada said that there will be no impunity for those who committed crimes during the U.S.-backed coup against President Evo Morales in 2019.... More
Washington, February 24 (RHC)-- The Biden administration has released two more prisoners from the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, located on illegally-occupied territory in Cuba. ... More
Quito, February 24 (RHC)-- Disapproval of the government of Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has reached 85 percent, according to a survey conducted by the company Perfiles de Opinión. According to the survey, conducted from February 11 to 13, 53.43 percent of the respondents rated Lasso's government as "bad" and 31.57 percent as "very bad."... More
Ouagadougou, February 24 (RHC)-- The body of Burkina Faso’s revolutionary and charismatic leader Thomas Sankara has been reburied alongside 12 comrades at the spot of their assassination nearly 30 years ago.... More
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