London, February 18 (RHC)-- The protection against COVID-19 from being previously infected lasts at least as long as that offered by vaccination, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical journal. One of the largest studies based on data from 19 countries found that “natural immunity” reduces the risk of hospitalisation and death by 88 percent for about 10 months.... More
Ankara, February 18 (RHC)-- Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu has updated the death toll in Turkey to 39,672, bringing the overall number of earthquake fatalities in both Turkey and Syria to 43,360. Friday’s figure is certain to increase as search teams retrieve more bodies amid the devastation caused by the powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake — the deadliest disaster in Turkey’s modern history.... More
Washington, February 18 (RHC)-- Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has dismissed the fact that Israel is an occupying entity, claiming that the regime has a Biblical right to the Palestinian land.... More
United Nations, February 17 (RHC)-- A newly-drafted UN Security Council resolution has called on the Israeli regime to “immediately and completely” end its settlement expansion activities across the occupied Palestinian territories, in a fresh blow to the extremist Israeli cabinet’s plots to steal more Palestinian lands.... More
Brasilia, February 17 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva has announced that the minimum wage in the country will be increased from 249 dollars to approximately 254 dollars starting in May.... More
Berlin, February 17 (RHC)-- Workers at eight airports in Germany have gone on strike to demand better pay, leaving hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded. Germany's biggest carrier Lufthansa canceled more than 1,300 flights at its two busiest hubs, Frankfurt and Munich, on Friday after the Verdi trade union called for a full-day strike. ... More
Paris, February 17 (RHC)-- French labor unions have organized and staged a fifth wave of protests and walkouts against the government’s proposed pension reform plans. Protesters took to the streets on Thursday in a number of cities nationwide, seeking to keep up pressure on the government over the proposed plans.... More
Ottawa, February 17 (RHC)-- Canada will send navy vessels to the coast of Haiti to gather intelligence as the Caribbean nation continues to reel from economic and political insecurity as well as violence, much of it driven by organised criminal groups.... More
Washington, February 17 (RHC)-- World Bank president David Malpass announced he will resign his post by the end of June, nearly a year before his five-year term is set to expire. ... More
Washington, February 17 (RHC)-- A team of researchers reports Antarctica’s enormous Thwaites Glacier is on the verge of collapse, with warm water seeping under the weakest parts of the glacier and melting it from below.... More
Washington, February 17 (RHC)-- In the U.S., January 6th Special ounsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify and provide documents about Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. ... More
United Nations, February 17 (RHC)-- The United Nations has appealed for more than $1 billion in funds for the Turkish earthquake relief operation, just two days after launching a $400 million appeal for Syrians.... More
Ramallah, February 17 (RHC)-- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has strongly condemned a new Israeli law that facilitates the expulsion of Palestinian prisoners and their families, with the Palestinian foreign ministry calling it “the ugliest form of racism.”... More
Caracas, February 17 (RHC)-- The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, signed on Thursday the Partial Agreement of a Commercial Nature No. 28. The meeting took place at the Atanasio Girardot International Bridge, on the common border, with delegations from both parties.... More
Damascus, February 16 (RHC)-- The combined death toll in Turkey and Syria from last week’s massive earthquakes is nearing 44,000. Many more are expected to die or have not been counted. ... More
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