Port-au-Prince, January 12 (RHC)-- The U.S. Coast Guard said it rescued 176 Haitian nationals from a precarious boat headed toward the Florida coastline earlier this week. ... More
Chicago, January 12 (RHC)-- The latest U.S. government figures show that inflation last month surged at its fastest annual rate in 40 years.... More
Amsterdam, January 12 (RHC)-- The European Medicines Agency, the region’s drug regulator, says the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant across the continent is pushing COVID-19 towards being an endemic disease that humanity can live with.... More
Ramallah, January 12 (RHC)-- An elderly Palestinian man has died during his arrest and assault by the Israeli army in the village of Jiljilya on the outskirts of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to his family and local Palestinian officials.... More
Washington, January 12 (RHC)-- Blood banks across the United States have been hit by staffing shortages and drops in donor turnout due to the surge in COVID-19 cases and adverse weather, the American Red Cross has warned.... More
San Salvador, January 12 (RHC)-- El Salvador’s Supreme Court has reopened a criminal investigation into the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests carried out by a U.S.-trained death squad during the Salvadoran civil war. Their housekeeper and her daughter were also killed. Five of the priests were from Spain, and one was Salvadoran. ... More
Geneva, January 12 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has warned that over half of the people in Europe are on track to contracting the fast-moving Omicron variant of the coronavirus in the next two months.... More
Atlanta, January 12 (RHC)-- The United States has raised the risk assessment level for COVID-19 for Canada, designating its northern neighbor among the world’s most dangerous travel destinations. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now changed its cautionary rating on Canada to Level 4, indicating very high COVID-19 levels.... More
Washington, January 12 (RHC)-- The global economy is entering a phase of “pronounced slowdown”, the World Bank has warned, as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, and the triple blow of soaring inflation, high government debt levels and rising income inequality threaten recoveries in emerging and developing economies.... More
London, January 12 (RHC)-- A UK subsidiary of the Israeli arms company, Elbit Systems, has been forced to sell a factory in Oldham Town following sustained pro-Palestine protests.... More
Sanaa, January 12 (RHC)-- The severe shortage of fuel in Yemen is deteriorating the health care system in the country. Yemen's Ministry of Health says the rate of infant deaths has increased amid the severe fuel crisis caused by the continued detention of oil ships by Saudi Arabia.... More
New York, January 11 (RHC)-- Bitter arctic air blasting across the northern United States and Canada has led to winter-chill alerts from the US states of Montana to Maine, and up to the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario.... More
Washington, January 11 (RHC)-- According to a new Washington Post report, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is considering updating its mask guidance amid the new surge in cases due to the Omicron variant.... More
London, January 11 (RHC)-- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under renewed pressure after an e-mail was leaked inviting staff to bring drinks to a party during the country’s first lockdown. The e-mail was sent in May 2020, when UK residents were told they could only meet one other person from outside their household, outside, and at a two-metre distance.... More
Santo Domingo, January 11 (RHC)-- Authorities in the Dominican Republic have detained a key suspect in the July assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. The Associated Press reports Rodolphe Jaar was arrested Friday with the assistance of the U.S. government and is being handled as a U.S. prisoner. ... More
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