Ramallah, February 9 (RHC)-- A Palestinian aid team is joining the international emergency response in Turkey and Syria, as rescue efforts to locate and extract survivors from the rubble intensify. Seventy-three rescuers, led by the Palestinian International Cooperation Agency (PICA), packed softshell jackets displaying the logo of their organization into red duffle bags on Thursday, before boarding a bus at the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ramallah.... More
Brasilia, February 9 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will seek to “kickstart a new era of relations” with the United States during talks with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden at the White House, analysts and Brazilian officials say, but ideological differences are likely to persist.... More
Lima, February 9 (RHC)-- The Public Prosecutor's Office of Peru announced on Tuesday the beginning of a preliminary investigation for 60 days against high commanders of the National Police (PN) for the arbitrary arrests of students that were made in the capital, Lima, during the protests against the government of President-designate Dina Boluarte.... More
Washington, February 9 (RHC)-- The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has accused the United States of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines, which were built to carry natural gas from Russia to Europe. The pipelines were severely damaged last September in a series of underwater explosions in the Baltic Sea. ... More
Quito, February 9 (RHC)-- The leader of the Citizen Revolution movement, former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa, has rejected the call made by President Guillermo Lasso on a "national agreement" considering that it is insincere and full of cynicism.... More
Damascus, February 9 (RHC)-- With hundreds of people trapped, rescuers have lamented the lack of international humanitarian assistance desperately needed after the devastating earthquake that killed thousands in northwest Syria.... More
Brasilia, February 9 (RHC)-- Brazil has launched raids against illegal gold miners blamed for a humanitarian crisis on the country’s largest Indigenous reservation, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva promised to defend the Yanomami people after years of neglect and rising violence.... More
New York, February 9 (RHC)-- Two more Greenpeace activists have joined a group of four climate defenders who have been on board a massive Shell vessel in the English Channel since last week to demand Shell stop drilling for oil and start paying reparations for its role in the climate catastrophe. ... More
New York, February 9 (RHC)-- A sweeping new study by conservation research group NatureServe finds that 40% of animals and 34% of plants in the United States are at risk of extinction, and 41% of ecosystems are facing collapse. ... More
Damascus, February 9 (RHC)-- Rescue operations continued in Turkey and Syria, three days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake jolted the two countries in the region’s most powerful quake in over eight decades. Harrowing scenes have emerged from the affected areas as bodies are pulled from the wreckage and the death toll surpasses 15,000.... More
Caracas, February 9 (RHC)-- On Wednesday morning, Venezuela sent 52 specialists to Türkiye and Syria to collaborate in rescue actions in the areas affected by the earthquakes.... More
Tel Aviv, February 8 (RHC)-- A controversial Israeli regime minister from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's extreme-right cabinet vows that the regime's illegal settlement activities in the occupied West Bank will continue unabated.... More
London, February 8 (RHC)-- BP, a London-based oil giant that has attempted to style itself as a leader of the renewable energy transition, announced Tuesday that it is slashing its emission-reduction goals and planning more fossil fuel output than previously expected after reporting a record $28 billion in profits for 2022—more than double what it made the year before.... More
Washington, February 8 (RHC)-- Immigration rights advocates have released a series of newly obtained documents revealing the racist and violent language used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials against Black asylum seekers. The communications between ICE agents are from 2020 and 2021, while the Biden administration mass deported Black asylum seekers to Cameroon and other African countries in what became known as “death flights.”... More
London, February 8 (RHC)-- More than 70 percent of UK households fear they will be severely hit by the cost-of-living crisis in the first part of 2023, up from 54 percent at the end of last year, a leading business company has revealed.... More
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