Washington, December 8 (RHC)-- The U.S. military has received hundreds of reports of “domestic extremism” within its rank and file in the past year, according to a damning new report, pointing to the rot in the country's security sector. The Pentagon inspector general released a report on the matter, covering the period from the start of October 2021 to the end of September, according to a report in Newsweek magazine. ... More
Lima, December 8 (RHC)-- Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has been transferred to the Special Operations Directorate (DIROES), a maximum security prison near Lima where he will be confined while awaiting trial.... More
New York, December 8 (RHC)-- Hundreds of journalists and other employees at The New York Times have begun a 24-hour walkout, the first strike of its kind at the newspaper in more than 40 years.... More
London, December 8 (RHC)-- Thousands of Britain's Border Force workers have announced a Christmas period strike over pay, joining thousands others of striking employees in various economic sectors across the country.... More
Palm Beach, December 8 (RHC)-- Donald Trump should be immune from civil lawsuits over last year’s siege on the United States Capitol by his supporters, a lawyer for the former president told a federal appeals court on Wednesday. Jesse Binnall told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that his client is immune from the lawsuits because he was acting as president when he delivered his impassioned remarks to supporters, using the “bully pulpit” to comment on outside events.... More
Sydney, December 8 (RHC) --A leading infectious diseases expert has predicted that up to 500,000 Australians are currently infected with COVID-19. Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist from Australian National University (ANU) and Canberra Hospital, warned that up to 2 percent of the country's population were likely to have coronavirus.... More
Mexico City, December 8 (RHC)-- The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), expressed his concern about the role of "interests of economic and political elites" in the dismissal of his Peruvian counterpart, Pedro Castillo, which the Congress voted after Castillo dissolved the parliament and announced a "Government of exception" in the Andean country.... More
Montreal, December 8 (RHC)-- In Montreal, Canada, the U.N. Biodiversity Conference, COP15, kicked off this week with a stark warning from U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.... More
Berlin, December 8 (RHC)-- In raids across the country, German police have arrested 25 suspected members and supporters of a far-right group who were allegedly seeking to overthrow the state by force, according to the federal prosecutor’s office. About 3,000 officers conducted the raids on Wednesday at 130 sites across 11 German federal states against adherents of the so-called Reich Citizens (Reichsbuerger) movement.... More
Montreal, December 7 (RHC) --UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed multinational corporations for turning the world’s ecosystems into “playthings of profit” and warned failure to correct course would lead to catastrophic results. “With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,” he said at the ceremonial opening of talks on biodiversity in Montreal on Tuesday.... More
Caracas, December 7 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has ratified the willingness of the national government to dialogue with all sectors to consolidate the recovery of the South American country.... More
Lima, December 7 (RHC)-- Peru’s Congress swore in a new president, Dina Boluarte, just hours after the legislature voted to remove Pedro Castillo in the third impeachment trial of his embattled and short-lived presidency. The opposition-led Congress on Wednesday afternoon overwhelmingly voted in favour of removing Castillo, who earlier in the day had announced plans to “temporarily” dissolve the legislature and rule by decree.... More
New York, December 7 (RHC)-- Donald Trump’s real estate company has been convicted of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities, adding to the legal woes facing the former United States president as he campaigns for the office again in 2024.... More
Washington, December 7 (RHC)-- The United States has voiced opposition to Al Jazeera’s push to ensure accountability at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank earlier this year.... More
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