Brussels, January 10 (RHC)-- Outrage is mounting over news that a number of airlines are operating tens of thousands of near-empty flights in Europe amid the COVID surge in order to retain coveted airport landing slots. ... More
Nablus, January 10 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in a protest in support of Nasser Abu Hamid, a cancer patient held in Israeli jails, as his health condition seriously deteriorates.... More
London, January 10 (RHC)-- The National Health Service (NHS), the publicly funded healthcare system in the UK, is seeking help from private health companies to deliver critical treatments such as cancer surgery, as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 keeps surging amid healthcare staff shortage.... More
Sydney, January 10 (RHC)-- Australia must “push through” a rapidly-growing Omicron outbreak, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, as the country’s total number of COVID-19 cases breached more than one million, more than half of them recorded in the past week alone.... More
Damascus, January 10 (RHC)-- U.S. occupation forces have set up an oil refinery in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah, as U.S. military trucks continue to smuggle crude oil from the energy-rich region to Iraqi territory.... More
New Delhi, January 10 (RHC)-- India has reported 117,100 new COVID-19 cases, a five-fold increase in a week and the most since early June of last year, as the Omicron variant overtakes Delta in the cities. The health ministry over the weekend also reported 302 new deaths, taking the total to 483,178. Total infections stand at 35.23 million.... More
Washington, January 10 (RHC)-- In the United States, a number of Democrats on Capitol Hill, alongside some constitutional scholars and pro-democracy advocates, have been quietly exploring ways to bar Donald Trump from ever holding office again.... More
London, January 10 (RHC)-- There was a spike in hospital admissions in England in 2020-21 for injuries suffered by individuals taking up new hobbies, as people were forced to remain at home due to COVID-19 lockdowns, according to data from NHS Digital.... More
London, January 10 (RHC)-- Tony Blair is scheduled to receive a controversial knighthood for the "war crimes" he instigated during his tenure as the UK's premier, says a British political commentator. The former British prime minister is set to be made a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter for his hawkish role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.... More
La Paz, January 10 (RHC)-- As part of the ongoing judicial proceedings against Bolivia's former de facto president, the justice system will issue this Wednesday the order to open the trial against Jeanine Áñez and nine other defendants for the 2019 coup d'état.... More
Ramallah, January 9 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man, 21-year-old Bakeer Mohammad Hashash, during a raid on the Balata refugee camp in Nablus over the weekend. Hours later, an Israeli settler drove his car into a Palestinian man, 25-year-old Mustafa Falaneh, near a checkpoint, killing him instantly.... More
Geneva, January 9 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization says governments logged a record 9.5 million coronavirus cases around the globe last week — a 71% jump from the prior week. ... More
Washington, January 9 (RHC)-- U.S. coronavirus infections have set another record high, with the number of confirmed cases now averaging more than 610,000 a day. Hospitalizations are rising sharply, while an average of more than 1,400 U.S. residents are dying of COVID-19 each day.... More
New York City, January 9 (RHC)-- Some 19 people, including nine children, were killed and dozens of others were injured in a fire in a New York apartment in the Bronx neighborhood.... More
Washington, January 9 (RHC)-- Lawrence Gostin, professor of medicine at Georgetown University in the U.S., says the world should stop focusing on the daily case count and turning to lockdowns to limit the spread of what is now a highly transmissible virus. ... More
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