Geneva, January 15 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) has added two more drugs to its guidelines for recommended treatments for COVID-19, as the more infectious Omicron variant of the coronavirus triggers an unprecedented surge in cases around the world.... More
Albuquerque, January 15 (RHC)-- In New Mexico, Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe has called for the abolition of nuclear weapons arsenals around the globe. ... More
Melbourne, January 15 (RHC)-- The Australian state of Victoria is exempting more workers from quarantine requirements for being close contacts. The decision came amid pressure on supply chains and will apply to staff in emergency services, education, and transport.... More
Washington, January 15 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the FBI arrested the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia Thursday, charging him and 10 others with seditious conspiracy over the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. ... More
Washington, January 15 (RHC)-- The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration’s requirement that workers at large private companies get vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested weekly. ... More
Ramallah, January 15 (RHC)-- Clashes have erupted between anti-settlement protesters and Israeli forces in several areas across the occupied West Bank, leaving a number of Palestinians injured. On Friday, Israeli forces attacked weekly anti-settlement protests in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, using tear gas. There were no immediate reports of casualties among the protesters.... More
New Delhi, January 15 (RHC)-- In the midst of a third wave of the pandemic in India aggravated by the presence of the Omicron variant, the country recorded more than 264,000 coronavirus infections in 24 hours.... More
United Nations, January 15 (RHC)-- The UN secretary-general has warned that millions of Afghans are on the “verge of death” -- urging the international community to fund the UN’s $5 billion humanitarian appeal, release Afghanistan’s frozen assets and jump-start its banking system to avert economic and social collapse.... More
New York, January 15 (RHC)-- The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose in the first week of January amid raging COVID-19 infections, but that number still remains low by historical standards.... More
Washington, January 14 (RHC)-- In the United States, the White House says it will increase federal support for COVID-19 testing in schools in order to keep them open amid the Omicron surge.... More
Brasilia, January 14 (RHC)-- The governor of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, Wilson Lima, announced Friday that the illustrious figure of Brazilian literature, the poet Thiago de Mello, has died at the age of 95 at his home in his sleep, for reasons still unknown.... More
Brasilia, January 14 (RHC)-- Brazil is experiencing an Omicron variant-fuelled spike in coronavirus infections that has seen cases, already suspected to be vastly undercounted, double in a week.... More
Geneva, January 14 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization says the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide soared to 15 million last week — by far the highest weekly toll since the start of the pandemic. ... More
Beer al Sabe, January 14 (RHC)-- Dozens of Palestinian Bedouins have been wounded in a crackdown by Israeli forces on a protest against continuing Israeli forestation work on land residents say they privately own near the southern city of Beer al-Sabe (Beer Sheva).... More
New York, January 14 (RHC)-- As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 sweeps the United States, empty supermarket shelves have become the latest sign of the pandemic's ongoing disruption to the country's supply chains.... More
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