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
Vilnius, January 11 (RHC)-- Lithuania has paid $113,000 to Abu Zubaydah, the accused 9/11 conspirator who survived CIA torture before his detention in the Guantánamo Bay prison, where he’s been indefinitely held since 2006 without charge. ... More
Baghdad, January 11 (RHC)-- Several roadside bomb attacks have targeted convoys carrying logistical equipment belonging to the U.S. military south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad and in the country’s southern province of Muthanna, amid strong public opposition to the prolonged presence of American occupation forces on Iraqi soil.... More
Washington, January 11 (RHC)-- A new study finds ocean temperatures rose to a new record high last year as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels soared to a new high. This comes as Danish researchers reported Greenland’s ice sheet lost more mass in 2021 than it gained — for the 25th year in a row.... More
New York, January 11 (RHC)-- The Fox News channel has promoted the far-right TV personality Jesse Watters to a nightly primetime show. ... More
New York, January 11 (RHC)-- The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States has soared to its highest level of the pandemic, with over 142,000 patients — surpassing even last winter’s peak.... More
United Nations, January 11 (RHC)-- The United Nations has launched a nearly $5 billion aid appeal for international donors to Afghanistan. ... More
Mexico City, January 11 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) will establish as part of his work agenda this 2022, a tour of Central and South American countries, according to an official note from the Presidency.... More
Buenos Aires, January 11 (RHC)-- Argentina's president, Alberto Fernandez, denounced on Monday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) intends to impose an economic adjustment program on the country, which his government will not accept.... More
Brussels, January 11 (RHC)-- The year 2021 was the world’s fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere hit new highs, European Union scientists have said.... More
Santiago de Chile, January 11 (RHC)-- Chile's Tribunal Calificador de Elecciones (Tricel) officially proclaimed this Monday, in a brief activity, the victory of the Frente Amplio candidate, Gabriel Boric, in the presidential elections of December 19, two months before his inauguration, scheduled for next March 11.... More
Managua, January 11 (RUC)-- The president of the Supreme Electoral Council (CSE) of Nicaragua, Brenda Rocha, presented the credentials to Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo as president and vice president, respectively, for a new period of government.... More
Miami, January 11 (RHC)-- January 11th marks 20 years since the opening of Guantanamo Bay, the infamous U.S. prison located on illegally-occupied territory in Cuba which critics say allows detainees to be held indefinitely outside of normal laws or judicial oversight.... More
Abuja, January 10 (RHC)-- In Nigeria, some 200 people were killed in the northwestern state of Zamfara last week following a series of reprisal attacks by armed bandits whose hideouts were targeted by military airstrikes. ... More
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