La Paz, May 11 (RHC)-- Bolivia's president, Luis Arce, announced that the government is evaluating the possibility of using China's yuan as a replacement for the U.S. dollar to carry out financial transactions in its foreign trade.... More
Sacramento, May 11 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, a state reparations task force approved recommendations on compensating and apologizing to Black residents for generations of discrimination and violence from slavery to the present day. ... More
Brasilia, May 11 (RHC)-- The Brazilian Supreme Court began this week to judge the fourth group of bolsonaristas who attacked the headquarters of the three powers four months ago. The prosecution denounced 1,390 people as responsible for the coup attempt last January 8 in Brasilia. So far, 550 became defendants since the justice system accepted the denunciation. Among the 253 who are still detained is the former Minister of Justice, Anderson Torres.... More
Ramallah, May 11 (RHC)-- One year after veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli forces, no one has been brought to justice for her murder. The journalist – beloved by viewers across the Middle East and the world – was killed by an Israeli sniper on May 11, 2022, while covering an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp. Demands for justice for Shireen’s killing have so far remained unanswered.... More
Washington, May 11 (RHC)-- Following a jury in a civil trial finding former President Donald Trump liable for sexual assault, two former Trump aides have come forward with allegations that he engaged in sexual misconduct in the White House.... More
London, May 11 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that it was too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell subsidiaries over a 2011 offshore oil spill. On December 20, 2011, an estimated 40,000 barrels of crude oil leaked when a tanker was loaded at Shell’s Bonga oilfield, 120 km (75 miles) off the coast of Nigeria’s Niger Delta.... More
Mexico City, May 10 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at a morning press conference on Wednesday that the Organization of American States (OAS) should disappear because "it serves no purpose."... More
Washington, May 10 (RHC)-- The United States rolled out a new regulation on Wednesday that will deny asylum to most migrants crossing the US-Mexico border illegally, a key part of President Joe Biden's enforcement plan as COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 end this week.... More
Berlin, May 10 (RHC)-- Thousands of physicians at municipal hospitals across Germany have waged a nationwide strike action demanding a wage hike and better working conditions amid the persisting price increases in consumer goods.... More
Brasilia, May 10 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Lula da Silva has announced that he will invite India and Indonesia to join the club of countries he wants to form to mediate in favor of a negotiated solution to the Ukrainian conflict.... More
Austin, May 10 (RHC)-- Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has deployed another 450 National Guard soldiers to the southern border with Mexico as the Biden administration prepares to lift the Trump-era Title 42 pandemic policy on Thursday. ... More
Gaza City, May 10 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians during a raid in the town of Qabatiya. ... More
David Miranda, journalist, ex-lawmaker and fighter for Brazil’s poor and LGBTQ community, dies at 37
Rio de Janeiro, May 10 (RHC)-- David Miranda, Brazilian journalist and the first LGBTQ member of the Rio de Janeiro City Council, has died at the age of 37. The news was announced by his husband, journalist Glenn Greenwald, Tuesday. ... More
Brasilia, May 10 (RHC)-- The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro will host the Group of Twenty (G20) heads of state summit in 2024, Rio state governor Claudio Castro announced. On his official Twitter account, the governor said that "it's official! Rio will host the G20 heads of state summit next year. The twenty largest world economic powers will gather, plus ten other nations that will be invited, for a total of thirty." ... More
New York, May 10 (RHC)-- In New York, 11 people were arrested at a protest Monday night demanding justice for Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old unhoused Black man who was choked to death on a subway car last week by another passenger. ... More
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