Port-au-Prince, May 11 (RHC)-- The United Nations has expressed concern over the recruitment of children by Haitian gangs, as escalating violence in the capital, Port-au-Prince, has forced thousands from their homes and killed dozens of civilians.... More


New York, May 11 (RHC)-- The number of people who’ve died from COVID-19 across the United States has passed one million since the first case was reported in Washington state just over two years ago. ... More


Washington, May 11 (RHC)-- A psychologist who helped the CIA develop its torture program testified at Guantánamo this week about waterboarding a Saudi man at a secret CIA black site in Thailand. ... More


Geneva, February 25 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization says it’s opening a global biomanufacturing hub in South Korea to train people in low- and middle-income countries to produce vaccines and therapeutics used to fight COVID-19. ... More


Geneva, February 25 (RHC)-- The drugmakers Sanofi and GSK have announced they will request emergency use authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine from European and U.S. regulators. ... More


Port-au-Prince, February 24 (RHC)-- In Haiti, one journalist was killed and others injured after police opened fire on a demonstration of factory workers in Port-au-Prince demanding living wages.... More


La Paz, February 24 (RHC)-- Bolivia's Deputy Minister of Civil Defense Juan Carlos Calvimontes said that one-third of the 340 municipalities of Bolivia had been affected by various disasters.... More


Ramallah, February 24 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has refused to hand over the bodies of nine Palestinian children, whom it has killed since 2016, says a rights group.  Reporting the matter on Tuesday, Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCI) said the practice was in violation of both the international law and the principles of human rights.... More


La Paz, February 24 (RHC)-- The Union Federation of Intercultural Communities of Santa Cruz called for a march to demand sanctions against those responsible for the crimes carried out during the 2019 coup d'état in Bolivia.... More


Brasilia, February 24 (RHC)-- Rights groups in Brazil say British, Canadian, U.S., Brazilian and Peruvian mining companies are planning to expand operations in the Brazilian Amazon.... More


Moscow, February 24 (RHC)-- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (Moscow local time) reported the launching of "a special military operation" to defend Donbass.  "I have made a decision to carry out a special military operation," the president declared during a televised message to Russian citizens, and specified that the aim of the operation is "to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years."... More


Washington, February 24 (RHC)-- Modelled after recent trucker protests in Canada, truck drivers in the United States are setting off on a massive cross-country drive towards Washington, DC to protest against coronavirus restrictions.... More


Mexico City, February 24 (RHC)-- The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, called on U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, to be informed about the murders of journalists in the Latin American nation and not to act in a meddlesome manner.... More


Damascus, February 24 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has carried out yet another attack on the Syrian capital Damascus’ countryside, killing three soldiers.  Syria’s state television carried the report early on Thursday, specifying the assault as a “missile attack.”... More


Nukualofa, February 23 (RHC)-- Tonga’s main internet connection to the rest of the world has finally been restored more than five weeks after a huge volcanic eruption and tsunami severed the undersea cable.... More


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