Brasilia, January 22 (RHC)-- In Brazil, two Indigenous Pataxó land defenders were murdered Tuesday in the municipality of Itabela. Seventeen-year-old Nawir Brito de Jesus and 25-year-old Samuel Cristiano do Amor Divino were traveling to a farm when gunmen on a motorcycle shot them in the back, according to witnesses. ... More
Tel Aviv, January 22 (RHC)-- Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove Aryeh Deri, the recently appointed far-right interior and health minister, saying he is not eligible to hold public office due to his multiple criminal convictions. ... More
Brasilia, January 22 (RHC)-- The head of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) of Brazil, Judge Alexandre de Moraes, has authorized search actions on properties belonging to the former governor of the Federal District (DF), Ibaneis Rocha and his former executive secretary of Public Security, Fernando de Souza Oliveira, official sources report.... More
Lima, January 22 (RHC)-- Peru has closed its famed historical site Machu Picchu amid continuing anti-government protests, as the European Union decried the police response to the deadly unrest as “disproportionate.”... More
Lima, January 21 (RHC)-- Late on Friday night, a new act of repression was registered in the Peruvian region of Puno when a policeman fired his gun against a group of people protesting against President Dina Boluarte.... More
Brasilia, January 21 (RHC)-- On Saturday, the president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, traveled to Roraima, to visit the Yanomami people, whose objective is to monitor the situation of malnutrition of community children in the state and elaborate an action plan to eradicate the problem.... More
Lima, January 21 (RHC)-- The Peruvian National Police (PNP) entered this Saturday the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, where Peruvians from different regions who came to Lima to demonstrate against the regime of Dina Boluarte are staying.... More
New York, January 21 (RHC)-- A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered Boeing Co to appear in court on January 26 to be arraigned on a 2021 felony charge after families of those killed in two crashes objected to a 2021 plea deal. Boeing won immunity from criminal prosecution as part of its $2.5 billionn January 2021 Justice Department-deferred prosecution agreement over a 737 MAX fraud conspiracy charge related to the plane’s flawed design.... More
Jakarta, January 21 (RHC)-- Five-year-old Shena has been in hospital since September. Her eyes move slowly when her mother calls her name but she is otherwise almost completely unresponsive. Her mother, Desi Permata Sari, says Shena’s problems started when she fell ill with a fever. Concerned, she took her daughter to the emergency department of a Jakarta hospital. Doctors conducted blood tests and sent them home with paracetamol syrup.... More
Gitega, January 21 (RHC)-- Burundian Public Health and AIDS Control Minister Sylvie Nzeyimana has declared an outbreak of cholera in Bujumbura.... More
Brasilia, January 21 (RHC)-- Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has dismissed the country’s army chief General Julio Cesar de Arruda in the wake of the storming of several government buildings by the supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro.... More
Lima, January 21 (RHC)-- The mobilizations continue in Peru to demand the resignation of the president-elect, Dina Boluarte, as part of the third day of a national strike, also demanding the closure of Congress, new general elections and a Constituent Assembly.... More
Caracas, January 21 (RHC)-- The United States has distorted the human rights issue in Venezuela for its own political ends, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said Friday. "Through distorted narratives, the U.S. aims to make political use of human rights to excuse the acts of political violence that it has encouraged against Venezuela in recent years," Gil said on Twitter.... More
New York, January 21 (RHC)-- Microsoft has announced plans to lay off 10,000 workers in the largest round of job cuts at the software giant since 2014. This builds on approximately 120,000 job cuts over the past year at high-tech firms including Twitter, Meta, Lyft and Salesforce.... More
New York, January 21 (RHC)-- New research finds human activity has caused temperatures in Greenland to rise far beyond levels seen in the 20th century. The study in the journal Nature found that without immediate action to stop global heating, Greenland’s melting glaciers will raise sea levels by 20 inches by the end of the century, flooding coastal communities around the world. ... More
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