Atlanta, July 20 (RHC)-- U.S. public health officials are warning of a severe shortage of vaccines needed to combat a growing outbreak of Monkeypox. The Centers for Disease Control has confirmed over 1,800 cases of the viral disease since it was first detected in the United States in May, although a severe shortage of test kits means the true number of cases is likely far higher. ... More
New York, July 20 (RHC)-- In the United States, COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are continuing to rise. Officially, the U.S. is recording about 125,000 new cases each day, but public health officials warn that’s only a small fraction of the true number of infections — with most positive at-home tests going unreported. ... More
Berlin, July 20 (RHC)-- United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said the Paris climate accord’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels was on “life support.” ... More
Montevideo, July 20 (RHC)-- The group Feminicidios Uruguay reported on Monday that the country has 19 femicides in the first half of 2022, a figure that exceeds the reports of the previous year.... More
Brasilia, July 20 (RHC)-- President Jair Bolsonaro has resumed his attacks on the Brazilian electoral system, calling it completely vulnerable before 40 foreign diplomats gathered at the presidential residence, the Alvorada Palace.... More
Lima, July 20 (RHC)-- In Peru, during the fourth wave of infections, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in children and adolescents in Peru soared by more than 70 percent, according to the Social Health Insurance (ESSALUD).... More
Gaza City, July 20 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has launched new aerial aggression against the Gaza Strip following reported gunfire from the direction of the coastal enclave.... More
Brussels, July 20 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) says coronavirus cases have tripled across Europe in the past six weeks, accounting for nearly half of all infections globally.... More
New York, July 20 (RHC)-- Oil prices jumped by several percentage points on Monday after US President Joe Biden returned from his Saudi Arabia trip without getting firm assurances from Arab allies to boost crude supplies amid a severe shortage caused by sanctions on Russia.... More
Bogota, July 19 (RHC)-- In Colombia, Indigenous leaders say that 50 extrajudicial executions were committed against their peoples and not the three recognized by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace. Representatives of indigenous communities of the Colombian Caribbean denounced before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) that between 2002 and 2005 battalions of the National Army carried out extrajudicial executions of young people who were later presented as guerrillas killed in combat, known as false positives.... More
Quito, July 19 (RHC)-- A new confrontation registered this Monday in the prison of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, province of the Sierra of Ecuador, left at least 12 inmates dead and two wounded.... More
London, July 19 (RHC)-- In London, doctors and nurses with Extinction Rebellion placed stickers on the windows of JPMorgan’s offices reading: “In case of medical climate emergency, break glass.” The activists then carefully broke the glass panes in an act of nonviolent civil disobedience. ... More
Canberra, July 19 (RHC)-- The state of Australia’s environment is “poor and deteriorating,” a new government report has found. The 2021 State of the Environment Report, a mandatory assessment conducted every five years, was released on Tuesday by the recently-elected federal Labor government. It had been received by the previous Liberal-National coalition government in December 2021 but not published.... More
Washington, July 19 (RHC)-- A group of United States legislators has urged the Biden administration to publicly reject Israel’s labelling of six Palestinian human rights organisations as “terrorist” groups, in the latest international push against the Israeli decision.... More
Madrid, July 19 (RHC)-- Europe reports at least 1,500 deaths and several fires due to the second heat wave recorded in the continent in the month of July. Between July 10 and 16, the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), dependent on the Spanish Ministry of Health, reported an estimated 510 deaths due to the heat wave, of which 150 belonged to the 16th.... More
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