Ottawa, November 13 (RHC)-- A new survey has revealed that Canadians are buying cheaper food items, stockpiling food and even eating less to cope with rising food prices as inflation in the country has soared to its highest in almost half a century.  The results of the study by Nanos Research for Canada’s CTV News shows more than 1,000 Canadians admitting to having used a “cost-saving option” to lower food expenses in the past month as inflation stands at 6.9 percent, the highest in 41 years.... More

Cairo, November 13 (RHC)-- An NGO and climate activists have called on world leaders attending this year’s COP27 climate summit in Egypt to start negotiations for a “plant-based treaty.”  An open letter signed by celebrities, politicians, and businesses was delivered to COP27 President Sameh Shoukry, calling for “a broad, holistic approach to a sustainable and just plant-based food transition through a global Plant Based Treaty this decade to avert climate catastrophe.”... More

Miami, November 12 (RHC)-- At least five people are dead after Hurricane Nicole hit Florida’s east coast, severely damaging hotels and apartments.  In Volusia County, local officials evacuated 24 beachfront hotels and apartments due to unsafe conditions later in the day after the storm made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane.... More

Cairo, November 12 (RHC)-- Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change, are on track to rise one percent in 2022 to reach an all-time high, according to scientists.  The Global Carbon Budget report, released on Friday during the United Nations COP27 climate summit, laid bare the gap between the promises governments, companies and investors have made to cut planet-warming emissions in future years and their actions.... More

Rome, November 12 (RHC)-- Diplomatic tension between Italy and France keeps mounting as the French NGO-run search-and-rescue ship Ocean Viking reached the French port of Toulon with its load of 234 asylum seekers on Friday.  The ship had been refused a port of safety by Italy's far-right government for around three weeks, a decision that the French government slammed as irresponsible and inhumane.... More

Paris, November 12 (RHC)-- "Dialogue and negotiation in Venezuela, found at the Paris Forum for Peace, three friends: the governments of France, Argentina and the Republic of Colombia," said the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez.... More

Ottawa, November 12 (RHC)-- A shooting that left four people wounded and another similar incident forced thousands of students at two Montreal area colleges to go into lockdown on Friday.  At 5:30 pm local time, gunshots were heard at a park across the street from Montmorency College in the Montreal suburb of Laval. Four people were shot and later taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.... More

Paris, November 12 (RHC)-- On Friday, Venezuelan National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez arrived in France to participate in the 5th Paris Forum for Peace that takes place at the Palacio de la Bolsa.  “We are convinced that the path for Venezuela is dialogue, the suspension of all illegal sanctions and respect for the Constitution,” said Rodriguez, who is also a militant of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).... More