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


Dallas, January 30 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump says if he runs for president and wins in 2024, he would pardon protesters charged with criminal offenses in connection with the January 6 brief occupation of the Capitol.... More


Tegucigalpa, January 30 (RHC)-- The new president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, stressed on Saturday that during her administration she will strengthen the ties of unity and cooperation with the government of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... More


Chicago, January 30 (RHC)-- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has "persistent deficiencies" in its ability to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies, a U.S. congressional watchdog warned in a report, citing concerns raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.... More


Lima, January 30 (RHC)-- The Peruvian Public Prosecutor's Office has requested a 12-year prison sentence and the disqualification of former congressman Kenji Fujimori from public office for more than 15 years for the alleged crimes of bribery and aggravated influence peddling.... More


Paris, January 30 (RHC)-- In France, Paris AP-HP hospitals system chief Martin Hirsch questioned whether people who have refused the COVID-19 vaccine should be given free treatment.   “When free and efficient drugs are available, should people be able to renounce it without consequences... while we struggle to take care of other patients?” Hirsch stated.... More


Ottawa, January 30 (RHC)-- Officials in Canada say they have confirmed the identities of four Indian nationals whose frozen bodies were found in Manitoba near the Canada-United States border last week.... More


Orlando, January 30 (RHC)-- Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier has tested positive for COVID-19 at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex in Florida.  ... More


Damascus, January 30 (RHC)-- U.S. warplanes have bombed a residential neighborhood in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah, a week after remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group launched an armed attack on a detention center run by the Kurdish-led militants from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).... More


Tokyo, January 30 (RHC)-- In Japan, six people who developed thyroid cancer in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown have filed a landmark lawsuit against the Tokyo Electric Power Company. ... More


La Paz, January 29 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Minister of Health, Jeyson Auza, report that medical brigades have been sent to Cochabamba in order to face the fourth wave of COVID-19 that is being experienced in that central city.... More


Brussels, January 29 (RHC)-- The former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, said Friday that the security crisis in his country is the result of the actions of the authorities who destroyed the institutionality established during his administration.... More


New York, January 29 (RHC)-- The eastern coast of the United States is getting hit by blizzard conditions on Saturday, as the region is hunkering down for a major snow storm.  Heavy snow and hurricane-force winds are forecast in some areas, with five U.S. states declaring emergencies ahead of the storm's arrival... More


Bogota, January 29 (RHC)--Colombia’s top court has ordered the government to protect disarmed former left-wing rebel fighters after a spate of murders.   In a judgement made public on Friday, the Constitutional Court said the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels’ “fundamental rights to life, personal integrity and peace … were ignored” by the Colombian state.... More


Brasilia, January 29 (RHC)-- The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, celebrated Friday the decision of the Federal Criminal Court of Brasilia to close the case of the triplex of Guarujá, in Sao Paulo, the case that led him to prison.... More


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