Miami, October 15 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Florida, a federal judge has held the Federal Bureau of Prisons and a local warden in contempt of court over their neglect and indifference to the plight of a 54-year-old prisoner who was dying of cancer. ... More
Atlanta, October 15 (RHC)-- U.S. civil rights activist and minister Charles Melvin Sherrod has died at the age of 85 in Albany, Georgia. ... More
Berlin, October 15 (RHC)-- The Muslim call to prayer has sounded for the first time from one of Germany’s biggest mosques in Cologne, but at limited volume – as part of a project agreed with authorities in the city that has one of the country’s largest Muslim communities.... More
Jakarta, October 15 (RHC)-- A football stampede in Indonesia that killed more than 130 people was caused by tear gas, the country’s security minister has said. A team of government officials, and football and security experts had launched an investigation to determine the main cause of death in one of the world’s worst stadium disasters, which occurred after a match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in East Java on October 1st.... More
Caracas, October 15 (RHC)-- In Venezuela, high-level officials from the administration of President Nicolas Maduro remained deployed in the town of Las Tejerias, supervising the tasks for the recovery of the affected areas after the October 8th landslide. They confirmed that the death toll rose to 50 people.... More
New York, October 15 (RHC)-- A new report in the U.S. warns that some wild animal populations are declining on a “devastating” scale. The 2022 Living Planet Index finds populations of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles that were tracked for the study have declined by an average of 69% since 1970. ... More
Austin, October 15 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Austin, The Texas Tribune reports a group of asylum seekers who were flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, an island off Massachusetts, by Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis last month may be able to apply for a special visa to stay in the United States.... More
Caracas, October 15 (RHC)-- In Argentina, a court has ordered the release of the last five crew members of the plane of Empresa de Transporte de Aerocargo del Sur (EMTRASUR), who had been held in Argentina since last June.... More
Ramallah, October 15 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have shot and killed two Palestinian men, including a physician, during a raid on the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian health ministry identified the doctor as Abdullah al-Ahmad, in his 40s, and said he was shot in the head by Israeli forces on Friday morning in front of the Jenin public hospital.... More
Paris, October 15 (RHC)-- French refinery workers have continued their strikes as a petrol crisis drags on across the country, with authorities threatening to resort to force to end the strikes. Long lines of cars could be seen across France on Friday as drivers were waiting sometimes for hours to fill up their cars. Many gas stations have been forced to temporarily close as one-third of France’s gas stations are experiencing temporary shortages, with the Paris area and northern France being the most affected after French labor unions called for strikes and protests over wages and working conditions.... More
Caracas, October 14 (RHC)-- The World Food Program of the United Nations is available to aid those affected by the landslide in the town of Las Tejerías, in the Venezuelan state of Aragua, said the representative of this organization in Caracas, Laura Melo.... More
Melbourne, October 14 (RHC)-- Thousands of people in southeastern Australia have been told to leave their homes after two days of incessant rain caused dams to overflow and rivers to burst their banks. Large parts of Victoria state, southern New South Wales and the northern regions of the island state of Tasmania have been pounded by an intense weather system with some seeing more than a month’s worth of rain since late on Wednesday, according to officials.... More
Bogota, October 14 (RHC)-- Thousands of migrants and refugees are waiting in a town in northwest Colombia for boats to take them across the Gulf of Uraba, from where they will trek through a treacherous jungle on their way to the United States, Colombia’s human rights ombudsman has said.... More
United Nations, October 14 (RHC)-- A United Nations rights watchdog has rebuked Finland for violating the rights of Finnish children who were abandoned in Syrian prison camps. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) denounced Finland for violating the rights of Finnish children by leaving them in life-threatening conditions in Syrian camps, which are housing suspected Daesh Takfiri terrorists and their families.... More
Mexico City, October 14 (RHC)-- A massive leak of over 4 million confidential documents from the Mexican government has revealed Mexico’s military sold hand grenades and tactical equipment to drug cartels.... More
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