Brasilia, October 7 (RHC)-- Former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will win the elections in the runoff with a wide lead over the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, according to a survey by the Ipec institute released on Wednesday. According to the poll, in the second round, scheduled for October 30th, Lula would have 51 percent of the votes, compared to 43 percent for Bolsonaro.... More
Athens, Octobrer 7 (RHC)-- At least 18 people seeking new lives in Europe by crossing the Mediterranean have died in a pair of unrelated boat accidents, according to Greek officials. One boat sank off the island of Lesbos after encountering strong winds. There were 40 people on board, reportedly all women. By Thursday morning, 16 of them had been found dead, the Greek coast guard said.... More
United Nations, October 7 (RHC)-- Surging violence and insecurity have turned Haiti into a “time bomb for cholera,” the UNICEF representative in the country told Al Jazeera, as aid groups and local authorities ramp up their response to an outbreak in Port-au-Prince.... More
Washington, October 7 (RHC)-- Jewish American journalist Katie Halper has been sacked by the corporate-owned US media outlet The Hill over defending a Congress member’s portrayal of Israel as an apartheid regime based on a list of facts.... More
Miami, October 7 (RHC)-- The New York Times has confirmed the identity of a woman who played a key role in recruiting and tricking a group of 48 Venezuelan asylum seekers in Texas to board a flight to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts as part of a political ploy by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.... More
Washington, October 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden toured storm-ravaged parts of Florida earlier this week, pledging billions of dollars in federal aid for people impacted by Hurricane Ian, which made landfall last week as one of the most devastating storms ever to hit the United States. ... More
Paris, October 6 (RHC)-- Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen has called for the closure of more mosques in the country, amid a growing trend of Islamophobia across Europe. Le Pen made the demand in an interview with French TV channel, BFMTV, on Wednesday, despite the closure of more than 20 mosques in France at the behest of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin in the last two years, Anadolu News Agency reported.... More
London, October 6 (RHC)-- British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has set out plans for new powers which would ban refugees who cross the English Channel from claiming asylum and said it was her “dream” to see a government flight deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda.... More
Ramallah, October 6 (RHC)-- Many Palestinian children suffered injuries and breathing difficulties after Israeli troops stormed an elementary school in southern West Bank and fired tear gas, amid heightened tensions in the occupied territories over relentless Israeli military aggression.... More
Brasilia, October 6 (RHC)-- In the run-up to the Brazilian elections on October 30th, Senator Simone Tebet has declared her support for the left-wing candidate Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. In the first round on October 2nd, the center-right senator of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB) obtained 4.9 million votes (4.16 percent).... More
London, October 5 (RHC)-- The Campaign Against the Extradition of Julian Assange to the United States redoubled the call for supporters of the WikiLeaks founder to surround the British Parliament on Saturday to demand his release.... More
Brasilia, October 5 (RHC)-- Brazilian politician Ciro Gomes of the Democratic Labor Party has expressed his support for former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The second round of elections in the South American country is scheduled for October 30th, when leftist Lula will face right-wing Jair Bolsonaro. Neither of the two reached 50 percent of the valid votes plus one in last Sunday's first round.... More
Ramallah, October 5 (RHC)-- Israeli prison authorities have taken a series of repressive measures against prominent French-Palestinian human rights defender Salah Hamouri, after he started an open-ended hunger strike in protest against the regime’s policy of detention without charge or trial.... More
Atlanta, October 5 (RHC)-- Herschel Walker, a right-wing Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate who has said he opposes abortion with no exceptions, has denied a media report that he paid for a girlfriend’s abortion in 2009.... More
Boise, October 5 (RHC)-- In the United States, the University of Idaho has warned its professors not to discuss contraception with students or to provide reproductive health counseling — at the risk of being fired and charged with a felony. ... More
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