Rome, May 20 (RHC)-- More than 36,000 people have been forced from their homes by deadly floods in northeast Italy, regional officials have said, as rising waters swallowed more houses and new landslides isolated hamlets.... More
Mexico City, May 20 (RHC)-- Mexico’s army says it has located 49 people — including 11 children — abducted by a drug cartel in the country’s north. The people, who were travelling across the country to the United States border as migrants, said they had been abducted on Tuesday when their bus stopped at a petrol station about three hours from the northern city of Monterrey.... More
Ramallah, May 20 (RHC)-- Several Palestinians have sustained injuries while dozens of others suffered tear gas inhalation as Israeli military forces violently dispersed anti-settlement demonstrations in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.... More
Boston, May 20 (RHC)-- A federal judge in the United States has ruled that two major airlines must end their regional partnership in the country’s northeast within 30 days, citing the risk of higher fares and reduced competition. The decision, concerning American Airlines and JetBlue Airways, hands a victory to the U.S. Justice Department, which sued in 2021 to block the “unprecedented domestic alliance” between the two carriers.... More
San Salvador, May 20 (RHC)-- Authorities in El Salvador have predicted a heat wave for this weekend that will see temperatures that could reach 40 degrees Celsius in some areas of the Central American country.... More
Geneva, May 20 (RHC)-- More than one million people have been displaced by fighting in Sudan so far, including a quarter of a million refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson says. ... More
Mexico City, May 20 (RHC)-- The government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has deployed marines to the country’s south to occupy a section of railroad operated by a private conglomerate. Officials called the measure “temporary” and in the “public interest”, as the government works to update a rail-to-sea network on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a narrow region of land between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean.... More
Washington, May 20 (RHC)-- The World Bank has moved $150 million of the funds it has earmarked for Mozambique projects to help fund the Southern African nation’s efforts to recover from Cyclone Freddy.... More
Hiroshima, May 20 (RHC)-- Hundreds of people have protested in Hiroshima where the U.S.-led Group of Seven leaders are meeting over the weekend.... More
Buenos Aires, May 20 (RHC)-- Argentinean Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner spoke on C5N in the program Duro de Domar, where she explained the reasons why she will not be a presidential candidate in this year's elections. "A precautionary measure is enough to suspend me," she said.... More
Hiroshima, May 19 (RHC)-- On Friday, amid waves of protests, the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' annual summit got underway in Japan's western city of Hiroshima. Hundreds of protesters gathered in Hiroshima's Funairi Daiichi Park, not far from the summit's venue, to decry the finger-pointing bloc that advertises its own version of world order.... More
Jeddah, May 19 (RHC)-- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attended on Friday the 32nd Summit of the Arab League Council in the city of Jedah, Saudi Arabia, marking the beginning of Damascus' reintegration into the international arena, and said that the countries of the region can conduct their affairs without interference from the US and other Western nations.... More
Hiroshima, May 19 (RHC)-- As the G7 summit gets underway in Hiroshima, Japan, world leaders agreed to new sanctions against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine. Ahead of their first joint meeting today, U.S. President Joe Biden and the other leaders paid tribute to the victims of the world’s first nuclear attack — the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. ... More
Jeddah, May 19 (RHC)-- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is in Saudi Arabia to take part in an Arab League summit upon an official invitation from King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first such participation since foreign-backed militancy began in the country more than a decade ago.... More
Dallas, May 19 (RHC)-- A little girl from Panama born with heart problems has died in Border Patrol custody, according to a U.S. government statement on Thursday, marking the second death in two weeks of a child in custody from Latin America. The 8-year-old girl and her family were being held in Harlingen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the busiest corridors for border crossings.... More
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