La Paz, November 3 (RHC)-- Bolivian President Luis Arce has announced that Friday will be the installation of the technical commission that will decide the date of the population census in the South American country.... More
Jakarta, November 3 (RHC)-- The excessive and indiscriminate use of tear gas by police was the main cause of a deadly crush at a football stadium in East Java last month that left 135 people dead, Indonesia’s human rights commission has found.... More
New Delhi, November 3 (RHC)-- Global seizures of tigers and tiger parts have averaged 150 of the big cats a year over the past 23 years, according to a new report, underlining the pressures facing an animal that is severely endangered in the wild despite continuing conservation efforts.... More
Brasilia, November 2 (RHC)-- While the transition of government between the teams appointed by Brazil's president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro is beginning, Bolsonaro's followers staged a rally in a military barracks in Rio de Janeiro to question the election results.... More
Algiers, November 2 (RHC)-- Arab leaders have closed their first summit meeting in two years by reiterating the centrality of the Palestinian cause, albeit avoiding to address their own splits over normalising ties with Israel.... More
Tel Aviv, November 2 (RHC)-- Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared well placed to return to power after exit polls following Tuesday’s election showed his right-wing bloc heading for a narrow majority, lifted by a strong showing from his far-right allies.... More
Brasilia, November 2 (RHC)-- The president of the Workers' Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann, denounced that President Jair Bolsonaro is betting on imposing chaos in Brazil after the electoral defeat he suffered on Sunday. On the social network Twitter, the congresswoman considers the delayed speech of the far-right politician, 48 hours after his defeat in the second round of voting against the elected president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to be senseless.... More
Ramallah, November 2 (RHC)-- A number of Palestinian families have urged the International Committee of the Red Cross to pressure the Israeli regime to release the bodies of their martyrs withheld in Israeli morgues or buried in unknown graves. Dozens of the martyrs’ families as well as activists on Tuesday attended sit-ins staged outside the Red Cross headquarters in Ramallah, al-Khalil (Hebron), Bethlehem, Nablus and Jenin, according to Palestinian media.... More
Washington, November 2 (RHC)-- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has warned about the situation in Haiti amid the cholera outbreak that has caused 36 deaths. The regional health agency said that after three years free of cholera, Haiti is once again experiencing an outbreak that puts the lives of 1.2 million children residing in areas where cases of the disease have been reported at risk.... More
Nablus, November 2 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have clashed with Palestinians protesting a drawn-out siege imposed by the former on the city of Nablus in the north of the Tel Aviv-occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank.... More
Washington, November 2 (RHC)-- NBC News is reporting that the Joe Biden administration is considering expanding operations at the U.S. military base and prison at Guantánamo Bay -- located on occupied territory in eastern Cuba -- to hold hundreds of Haitians who are caught at sea trying to reach the United States. ... More
Caracas, November 2 (RHC)-- The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, signed a joint declaration on Tuesday after a working meeting held in Caracas to consolidate bilateral relations and deepen integration.... More
Damascus, November 2 (RHC)-- Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faisal Mekdad has strongly condemned the latest Israeli air strikes that hit targets in the vicinity of the capital Damascus, emphasizing that his country will definitely give a crushing response to such acts of aggression at some point in the future... More
Ramallah, November 2 (RHC)-- Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki says Israel must join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and eliminate its stockpile of nuclear weapons in order for a nuclear-weapon-free zone to be established in the Middle East.... More
Washington, November 2 (RHC)-- The number of Americans who believe that crime in their respective neighborhoods has surged in the past year has reached the highest in over a decade, according to a new Gallup poll. A total of 56 percent American adults reported an increase in local crime, marking a five point increase over last year. On the other hand, 76 percent of Americans believe there is more crime nationally compared to the last year.... More
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