Kabul, January 1 (RHC)-- The international children's rights non-governmental organization Save the Children has warned in a recent report that more than 6.6 million people face hunger in Afghanistan. ... More
The Hague, December 31 (RHC)-- The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted a resolution asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its legal opinion on the Israeli regime's occupation of Palestinian territories.... More
Ramallah, December 31 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have launched a fresh raid on the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, leaving 35 Palestinians, including a paramedic, wounded. The occupation forces launched the raid on Friday morning to arrest a Palestinian youth named Ahmed Mazri as they suspect he is a member of the new resistance group "Lions’ Den."... More
Rome, December 31 (RHC)-- Italy’s right-wing government has approved new measures to fine charities who rescue asylum seekers at sea and impound their ships if they break new rules, possibly putting thousands of people’s lives in danger.... More
Caracas, December 31 (RHC)-- Sectors of the Venezuelan opposition have agreed to eliminate the figure of the so-called "interim government" -- which is not established in the Constitution of the Republic, headed by former deputy Juan Guaidó.... More
Rome, December 31 (RHC)-- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died Saturday at the Vatican's Mater Ecclesiae monastery, said the director of the Holy See's press office, Matteo Bruni, who noted that further information will be provided as soon as possible.... More
La Paz, December 31 (RHC)-- Protesters have clashed with police in Bolivia’s largest city after a court sentenced a key opposition leader to four months in pre-trial detention on terrorism charges. Several hundred demonstrators threw rocks and firecrackers at a police building and burned tires in downtown Santa Cruz on Friday evening. Riot police fired tear gas and made at least four arrests.... More
Brasilia, December 31 (RHC)-- Outgoing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has left the country for the United States, avoiding the inauguration of incoming President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who defeated him in the country’s October elections.... More
Brasilia, December 30 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has declared three days of national mourning for Pele after the legendary footballer died at the age of 82. The measure was announced on Friday in a decree published in an extra edition of the government gazette and signed by the outgoing president, who is set to leave office Sunday.... More
Brasilia, December 30 (RHC)-- Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finalized his Cabinet appointments Thursday ahead of his January 1st inauguration. ... More
Washington, December 30 (RHC)-- On Capitol Hill, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee has released six years of former President Donald Trump's individual income tax returns as well as filings from multiple Trump business entities, ending his long-running effort to break precedent and keep them secret.... More
La Paz, December 30 (RHC)-- The governor of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and former president of the Civic Committee of that region, Luis Fernando Camacho, accused in the Coup d'Etat I case, entered the maximum security prison of Chonchocoro, in the department of La Paz.... More
Pretoria, December 30 (RHC)-- Families and friends of victims of a gas tanker explosion in Johannesburg on Christmas Eve gathered on Friday morning for a memorial service, even as the death toll increased to 34 from an earlier estimate of 27, the provincial health department said. Health Minister Joe Phaahla joined relatives of the victims to pay their respects by lighting candles at the Boksburg Civic Centre. ... More
Caracas, December 30 (RHC)-- Venezuela reached on Thursday the 4,400,000 homes built by the Great Housing Mission (GMVV) by making a new delivery of residences in the state of Aragua in the north-central part of the country.... More
La Paz, December 30 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Justice has ordered four months of preventive detention for the governor of Santa Cruz and opposition leader, Luis Fernando Camacho, in the maximum security prison of Chonchocoro in the city of La Paz, for the alleged commission of the crime of terrorism in the framework of the coup d'état I case.... More
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