Brussels, November 17 (RHC)-- According to sources in Europe, the gloomy economic outlook continues to trigger protests across the European Union. Demonstrators in several European countries have taken to the streets demanding pay rises and better working conditions.... More
Santiago de Chile, November 17 (RHC)-- Chile's Health Ministry has reported the first death from monkeypox in the country, of a person who was diagnosed with the disease on September 29th.... More
United Nations, November 17 (RHC)-- Armed gangs are “terrorizing” residents in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, a United Nations official has warned, as deadly violence and instability continue to complicate the country’s response to a worsening outbreak of cholera.... More
New Delhi, November 17 (RHC)-- The first sign that something was amiss was in the bowl of rice. Residents in the town of Plachimada, in India’s state of Kerala, watched the grains swirl in gluey yellow water before taking a spoonful that left a metallic aftertaste.... More
La Paz, November 17 (RHC)-- Activist Ruth Alipaz has watched with alarm as the mining industry tightened its hold on protected lands and Indigenous territories across Bolivia. Late last month, the Bolivian government approved the gold-mining industry’s demands to update the management plans for three national parks: Madidi, Cotapata and Apolobamba. By recognising the rights of miners in these protected areas, the deal drew sharp criticism from opponents and led to debate over the potential environmental fallout.... More
London, November 17 (RHC)-- British inflation has accelerated to the highest level for 41 years, driven by soaring energy, food and transport prices in a worsening cost-of-living crisis, according to official data. The Consumer Prices Index hit 11.1 percent in October, reaching the highest level since 1981, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement this week. That compared with 10.1 percent in September, which matched the level in July and was the highest in 40 years.... More
Washington, November 17 (RHC)-- The United States Congress is exploring the possibility of honouring a promise made nearly 200 years ago: seating a delegate from the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, a Native American tribe, in the U.S. legislature.... More
Tel Aviv, November 17 (RHC)-- Israeli minister for military affairs Benny Gantz has approved a plan to build a 100-kilometer wall in the occupied West Bank, as the occupying regime steps up its apartheid policies against Palestinians.... More
Damascus, November 17 (RHC)-- Local residents of a village in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah in cooperation with government forces prevented a U.S. military convoy from advancing through their villages on Wednesday. Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that a convoy of six armored vehicles was forced to turn around and head back in the direction it came from after locals in al-Buladiyah village aided by government forces stationed at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the area blocked the road.... More
Austin, November 16 (RHC)-- Construction workers at a Tesla auto “gigafactory” in Austin, Texas, have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor over unsafe working conditions and wage theft. ... More
Washington, November 16 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from continuing to enforce the Trump-era Title 42 policy to expel migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border without due process. ... More
Cairo, November 16 (RHC)-- Speaking at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vowed to crack down on illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and to make his country a leader in the global fight against climate change.... More
Santo Domingo, November 16 (RHC)-- The Dominican Human Rights Committee (CDDH) and other social organizations condemned President Luis Abinader's decree that expels foreigners who illegally occupy public or private property. This decision mainly affects Haitian rural workers.... More
Madrid, November 16 (RHC)-- Food prices in Spain hit record highs last month in the wake of a month-long strike by truckers earlier this year, which brought the country's supply chains to a halt, official data shows. In October, overall food prices climbed 15.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the National Statistics Institute.... More
Tel Aviv, November 16 (RHC)-- The Biden administration has opened an FBI investigation into the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian American journalist who was shot in the head and killed last May while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank — even as she wore a helmet clearly labeled ”PRESS.” ... More
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