Rome, November 6 (RHC)-- Italy has allowed a rescue ship carrying 179 refugees and migrants to enter a port in Sicily and begin disembarking children and sick or “vulnerable” people, according to rescue workers and an Italian legislator.... More
Cairo, November 6 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who is in Egypt to participate in COP27, informed Saturday that he proposed to Colombia and Brazil a South American summit for the defense of the Amazon, considered "the lungs of the world."... More
London, November 6 (RHC)-- Thousands of refugees, including children, are being held in prison-like conditions at a refugee detention center in England, and that has drawn concerns about the British government’s treatment of asylum-seekers.... More
Washington, November 6 (RHC)-- A new poll shows more than 60 percent of Americans say they are worried that disinformation will influence people’s voting decisions for midterm elections, which Democrats are likely to lose to Republicans on November 8th. A survey from the Knight Foundation, a nonprofit that invests in journalism and the arts, and Ipsos found that more than 6 in 10 Americans said they are very or somewhat concerned about people in their community making decisions about how to vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections based on the false or misleading information.... More
Tehran, November 6 (RHC)-- Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri-Kani says the production of opium in Afghanistan has increased by 50 times since the U.S.-led invasion of the South-Central Asian country in October 2001.... More
Ottawa, November 6 (RHC)-- Approximately 55,000 education workers have walked off the job in Canada’s most populous province, after the Ontario government passed legislation this week imposing contracts on them and banning strikes. Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s right-wing government passed Bill 28, the Keeping Students in Class Act, while invoking a contentious clause of Canada’s constitution to preempt court challenges.... More
San Francisco, November 6 (RHC)-- In the U.S., nearly 50,000 University of California student workers are set to go on strike if a deal isn’t reached with university officials on higher wages and other demands. ... More
Cairo, November 6 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, arrived Saturday in Egypt to participate in the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) to be held from November 6 to 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh.... More
Tel Aviv, November 5 (RHC)-- Israel’s most extremist former prime minister and his ultra-right coalition are set to be in power, as Benjamin Netanyahu won elections while standing charges on corruption and political dysfunction. In a final swing at the premiership, Netanyahu allied with the extremist MK Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party and Betzalel Smotrich's Religious Zionism party. His coalition earned a total of 64 out of 120 seats, by that making up the majority of the Knesset.... More
La Paz, November 5 (RHC)-- The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has inaugurated the work of the technical table that will have the purpose of defining the date of the new national census, in the framework of which he denounced attempts of the ultra-right to overthrow him.... More
Sioux City, November 5 (RHC)-- Former President Donald J. Trump is expected to announce a third White House campaign soon after the midterms, possibly as soon as the week of November 14th, according to people familiar with the planning.... More
Caracas, November 5 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has received the prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. The head of St. Vincent and the Grenadines government met with the Venezuelan president after receiving the Honoris Causa degree from the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV) for his contribution to the struggle for the emancipation of his country.... More
Tehran, November 5 (RHC)-- Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has slammed the U.S. dual standards at an unofficial UNSC meeting on Iran, noting that Washington misuses international mechanisms to serve its own interests.... More
United Nations, November 5 (RHC)-- As many as 7.8 million people in South Sudan, two-thirds of the population, may face severe food shortages during next year’s April-to-July lean season due to floods, drought and conflict, United Nations agencies said on Thursday. The shortages are worse than at the height of a civil war in 2013 and 2016, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Program (WFP) said.... More
Kabul, November 5 (RHC)-- A new report by the Afghan journalistic center shows that at least 127 journalists and media workers lost their lives during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Investigations also show that in more than 90-percent of those cases, the ones responsible for the deaths were not brought to justice.... More
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