Rome, February 22 (RHC)-- Italy’s coastguard has rescued nearly 600 people packed into overcrowded fishing boats in bad weather off the coast of Calabria, finding one person dead.... More
Berlin, February 22 (RHC)-- A German whistleblower has leaked data on 18,000 accounts showing that Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse held hundreds of millions of dollars for dictators, human rights abusers, drug traffickers, arms traders and others accused of serious crimes. ... More
Bogota, February 23 (RHC)-- In an historic victory for reproductive rights, Colombia has legalized abortion during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. ... More
Colombo, February 22 (RHC)-- Sri Lanka has shipped out to the United Kingdom the last of several hundred containers filled with thousands of tonnes of illegally imported waste, officials said on Monday.... More
Washington, February 22 (RHC)-- Rents in the largest 50 cities of the United States have risen an average of 20% over the last year, according to a recent study conducted by apartment-finding site Zumper. Another recent study, by Realtor.com, appeared to confirm those numbers – median rents on apartments with two or fewer bedrooms spiked 19.3% from December 2020 to 2021. ... More
Kabul, February 22 (RHC)-- The United Nations children’s agency says it will pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months. Salaries have been unpaid for months as the country plunged into economic crisis due to sanctions imposed by some Western governments on the Taliban administration.... More
Mexico City, February 22 (RHC)-- Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) reports that they detained more than 5,000 irregular migrants in the last week. The INM indicated that the migrants intercepted in the last seven days come from 23 countries, mostly from Central and South America, followed by other nations such as Nepal, China, Senegal, Russia, India, Romania, Switzerland and Gambia, among others.... More
New York, February 22 (RHC)-- U.S. organizations helping homeless individuals and families have criticized New York City's mayor for ordering heavy-handed police tactics against people seeking shelter during the cold winter. Mayor Eric Adamson, a former police captain, announced plans to remove homeless people from the city’s subway system and bar people from sleeping on trains or riding the same lines all night.... More
Buenos Aires, February 22 (RHC)-- About 20 officers of the National Gendarmerie of Argentina were summoned to testify as witnesses in the case that investigates the alleged aggravated smuggling of ammunition from this country to Bolivia in the context of the coup against former President Evo Morales in December 2019.... More
Boston, February 21 (RHC)-- Paul Farmer, a U.S. physician and medical anthropologist renowned for his innovative work in providing health care to poorer countries, died Monday at age 62, his nonprofit group Partners in Health announced. The Boston-based organization said he "unexpectedly passed away Monday in his sleep while in Rwanda."... More
Santo Domingo, February 21 (RHC)-- The government of the Dominican Republic has begun building a wall along its border with Haiti in an effort to stop irregular migration as well as the smuggling of weapons, drugs and goods. Dominican President Luis Abinader attended an inauguration ceremony where he pushed a button that began the pouring of concrete into the foundations of what will be the wall.... More
Washington, February 21 (RHC)-- In the U.S., one of the organizers behind the American Freedom Convoy that the truckers are planning to besiege the U.S. capital, squeezing it like a “boa constrictor.”... More
Six African countries to receive mRNA technology as part of WHO program to expand vaccine production
Geneva, February 21 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has announced that six African nations will receive technology needed to produce their own mRNA vaccines. The countries are Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. ... More
Bamako, February 21 (RHC)-- In Africa, Mali’s military says eight soldiers were killed, four remain missing, and 14 others were injured, after clashes with armed groups near Mali’s borders with Burkina Faso and Niger over the weekend. An estimated 57 unidentified fighters were also killed in the attacks.... More
United Nations, February 21 (RHC)-- The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) says 95 percent of people in Afghanistan “do not have enough to eat,” as the United States has frozen Afghan government assets worth billions of dollars and international sanctions against the ruling Taliban have plunged the Asian country into a full-blown economic crisis.... More
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