Vancouver, January 26 (RHC)-- An Indigenous community in Canada’s western province of British Columbia has found dozens of potential unmarked graves on the grounds of a former residential school, the latest such discovery over the past year.... More
Tegucigalpa, January 26 (RHC)-- The Observatory of Violence of the National Autonomous University of Honduras warned Tuesday that during 2021 in the Central American country, 318 women were murdered -- equivalent to a violent death or femicide every 27 hours and 33 minutes in Honduras.... More
Sanaa, January 26 (RHC)-- Saudi warplanes have carried out as many as 50 airstrikes against various districts in war-torn Yemen in just 24 hours. The air raids started on Tuesday, and lasted until early Wednesday, Yemen's al-Masirah television network reported.... More
London, January 26 (RHC)-- Britain’s main opposition leader, Keir Starmer, has called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign after new revelations confirmed that a party was held for him in his office during the COVID-19 lockdown.... More
Tehran, January 26 (RHC)-- Iran’s top human rights official has deplored the loss of scores of lives in a Saudi-led aerial raid against Yemen, calling on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to use all available means to hold to account the perpetrators and sponsors of the criminal act.... More
United Nations, January 26 (RHC)-- The UN children’s agency (UNICEF) has warned that more than one million children in Afghanistan are at the risk of severe acute malnutrition and death, calling for humanitarian aid to prevent the catastrophe.... More
London, January 26 (RHC)-- On Monday, Julian Assange was granted permission to appeal the British High Court’s decision last month to allow his extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on charges of espionage and revealing state secrets. The WikiLeaks co-founder faces up to 175 years in jail if found guilty on all counts.... More
El Paso, January 26 (RHC)-- Almost 180,000 migrants attempting to cross the border from Mexico were detained by the U.S. border authorities in December, according to official figures, bringing the total number of detentions at the U.S. southern border in 2021 to a record of nearly two million. ... More
Geneva, January 26 (RHC)-- World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is all but guaranteed a second term after a procedural vote made him the sole nominee for a leadership election in May.... More
Sanaa, January 26 (RHC)-- Internet services have returned to Yemen after a four-day outage caused by deadly Saudi-led coalition air raids that marked a dramatic escalation in the seven-year war. An attack by the Saudi-led coalition that targeted a telecoms facility in Hodeidah late on Thursday killed three children and was blamed for knocking out the internet nationwide.... More
Guatemala City, January 25 (RHC)-- In Guatemala, five former paramilitary soldiers have been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to decades in prison for sexually assaulting dozens of Indigenous Achí women in the 1980s. ... More
New York, January 25 (RHC)-- Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin admits she has tested positive for coronavirus. Palin’s announcement prompted a U.S. district judge in New York to delay the start of Palin’s defamation trial against The New York Times, which was set to begin on Monday. ... More
New York, January 25 (RHC)-- The United States reported more than 2,100 COVID-19 deaths on Monday, even as daily cases and hospitalizations continued to decline from record highs set earlier this month. ... More
Washington, January 25 (RHC)-- The Pentagon has placed 8,500 troops on heightened alert to potentially deploy to Eastern Europe over concerns Russia may soon invade Ukraine. The U.S. and NATO allies have accused Russia of amassing 100,000 troops near the Ukrainian border, but Russia has denied it’s planning an invasion. ... More
United Nations, January 25 (RHC)-- The damage to children’s education during the COVID-19 pandemic is hard to offset, with many young people losing out on “basic numeracy and literacy skills” due to school closures, UNICEF said. “Quite simply, we are looking at a nearly insurmountable scale of loss to children’s schooling,” said UNICEF Chief of Education Robert Jenkins in a statement issued at the United Nations.... More
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