Quito, February 1 (RHC)-- In Ecuador, the operator of a privately held pipeline has shut down the flow of heavy crude oil after the pipeline ruptured in the Amazon.  OCP Ecuador claimed the spill had burst in an area not connected to waterways, but members of the Kichwa Indigenous community shared video showing contamination on rivers in their territory. ... More


Bamako, February 1 (RHC)-- Mali’s government has given France’s ambassador 72 hours to leave the country after “hostile and outrageous” comments made by French authorities regarding the country’s junta.  The message was broadcast on state television on Monday evening.... More


Edmonton, January 31 (RHC)-- Authorities in the Canadian province of Alberta have dispatched heavily armed police units to disperse the blockade of a border crossing with the U.S. state of Montana by truckers disgruntled with COVID-19 vaccine mandates.... More


Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- At least six historically Black universities and colleges in the United States have received bomb threats, forcing several to shut down campuses and cancel classes for the day.... More


Jerusalem, January 31 (RHC)-- Israeli authorities have forced two Palestinian families in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Jabal al-Mukabber to demolish their own homes, rendering 13 people, including five children, homeless.... More


Brasilia, January 31 (RHC)-- At least 18 people have been killed during torrential rains in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state that caused landslides that buried houses.  The downpours, which began on Friday, killed at least 11 people on Sunday when earth smothered homes in several cities in the state’s interior, authorities said.... More


Buenos Aires, January 31 (RHC)-- Argentina's Ministry of Health reported this Sunday that in order to ensure equitable access to vaccines against the COvid-19 pandemic in the world, the nation donated a total of 4 million drugs to mitigate the humanitarian impacts of the virus.... More


Baghdad, January 31 (RHC)-- Iraqi intelligence forces have reportedly taken into custody the perpetrator of a recent rocket attack on the Baghdad International Airport compound, who confessed to his affiliation with the United States.  A security source told Baghdad Today news website that Akram al-Qaysi is currently being interrogated.... More


Port-au-Prince, January 31 (RHC)-- According to a survey published in Port-au-Prince, 82.4 percent of Haitians want to emigrate due to the difficult economic situation the country has always been going through.... More


New York, January 31 (RHC)-- Two New York nurses have been arrested for allegedly selling fake COVID-19 vaccination cards, and making more than $1.5 million in the process.... More


Paris, January 31 (RHC)-- The Yellow Vest movement in France continues to gather steam as the nation’s springtime elections grow nearer.  Just as they do every Saturday, the anti-government but civic-minded Yellow Vests took to the streets across France. ... More


Paris, January 31 (RHC)-- The death of a famous and elderly photographer on the cold streets of Paris, after being ignored for 9 hours, has caused shock worldwide. ... More


Bogota, January 30 (RHC)-- Colombia could face a serious food security crisis in the coming months, warned the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).... More


Dublin, January 30 (RHC)-- Fifty years since one of the worst massacres in Britain, residents in Londonderry, also known as Derry, have marked the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when British troops opened fire on civil rights protesters and gave way to decades of chaos in Northern Ireland.... More


Toronto, January 30 (RHC)-- Pro-Palestine Canadian activists and demonstrators have staged a protest against Israel’s decades-long aggression and atrocities against Palestinians, to which state-run media have chosen to turn a blind eye under the pretext of covering a rally against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's COVID-19 vaccine mandate... More


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