Brasilia, October 30 (RHC)== The Brazilian Amazon has lost more than 9,000 square kilometers of virgin vegetation so far this year, according to official data released Friday by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), linked to the Ministry of Science and Technology.... More
United Nations, October 30 (RHC)-- Syria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Bassam Sabbagh has said that Damascus reserves the right to re-establish control over the Golan Heights, which the Israeli regime has been occupying for more than half a century, stating that the entitlement to regain the area is inalienable and non-negotiable.... More
Seoul, October 30 (RHC)-- At least 150 people were killed and 100 hurt in a chaotic stampede in South Korea’s capital Seoul after thousands gathered on a narrow street to celebrate Halloween. Choi Seong-beom, chief of Seoul’s Yongsan fire department, said the death toll could grow as emergency workers continued to transport the injured to hospitals across Seoul following the crowd crush in the entertainment district of Itaewon on Saturday night.... More
United Nations, October 30 (RHC)-- The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has denounced the wave of violence unleashed by criminal gangs in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince. According to the IOM report between June and August of this year, 113 000 people have been forced to move internally, 96 000 of them from Haiti's capital.... More
United Nations, October 30 (RHC)-- Amid the worst drought in 40 years, Horn of Africa countries have been hit by outbreaks of cholera and acute watery diarrhea, while fighting in northern Ethiopia continues, according to a UN spokesman.... More
Brasilia, October 30 (RHC)-- Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva voted Sunday in the second round of national elections and said it is the most important day of his life.... More
Brasilia, October 30 (RHC)-- Polls have opened in Brazil’s most polarised presidential elections to date, with left-wing former president Luiz Incio Lula da Silva aiming to defeat right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in the run-off vote.... More
Miami, October 29 (RHC)-- The oldest inmate at the United States-run Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba Saifullah Paracha has been released to his home country Pakistan after nearly 20 years of detention without trial, the South Asian country’s foreign ministry said.... More
San Salvador, October 29 (RHC)-- In El Salvador, there are 15,419 suspected cases of dengue fever in the country, with 57 confirmed and 38 probable cases. These data come from the Epidemiological Bulletin of week 41 of the Ministry of Health, which covers the period up to October 15th.... More
Iowa City, October 29 (RHC)-- Adam Thomas starts harvesting soybeans on his farm in the U.S. state of Illinois when the dew burns off in the morning. This year, dry weather accelerated the work, allowing him to start early. His problem was getting the soybeans to market.... More
Miami, October 29 (RHC)-- Donald Trump has announced he plans to make use of his own Truth Social media platform despite Twitter Inc’s takeover by billionaire Elon Musk, who has promised to reinstate the former US president’s Twitter account. “I like Elon, but I’m staying on Truth,” Trump told Fox News in an interview on Friday without explicitly saying he would not post on Twitter if his account is reinstated.... More
United Nations, October 29 (RHC)-- The United Nations has found that only a swift system-wide transformation of the energy sector can stave off the most devastating effects of climate change, as projections show current pledges offer “no credible pathway” to limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).... More
Washington, October 29 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a group of Democratic senators, led by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, are urging the Biden administration to expand and extend temporary protected status, or TPS, for Haitians as thousands continue to flee to the United States. ... More
Brussels, October 29 (RHC)-- The European Parliament and EU member countries have reached a deal to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2035. European Union negotiators sealed on Thursday night the first agreement of the bloc’s “Fit for 55” package set up by the Commission to achieve the EU’s climate goals of cutting emissions of the gases that cause global warming by 55 percent over this decade.... More
Bogota, October 29 (RHC)-- Colombian Foreign Minister Álvaro Leyva Durán said Spain and Chile would accompany the peace process with the National Liberation Army (ELN). Leyva's comments were made at the III Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) held this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina.... More
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