Brasilia, December 27 (RHC)-- More than 11,0000 displaced and about 4,200 people in need of shelter is the balance of Saturday's floods caused by heavy rains affecting the Brazilian state of Bahia.... More
Nairobi, December 27 (RHC)-- Kenya will offer COVID-19 booster shots to individuals six months after their initial shots, the health ministry said in a document published a day after the country logged its highest rate of positive COVID-19 tests.... More
Hollywood, December 27 (RHC)-- In the U.S., Oscar shortlists have been announced. Among the documentaries is “Takeover” by Emma Francis-Snyder, which follows the 12 historic hours on July 14, 1970, when members of the Young Lords Party took over the rundown Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx to demand better healthcare... More
New Orleans, December 27 (RHC)-- The U.S. Justice Department said Louisiana-based Taylor Energy has agreed to pay $43 million in damages and turn over a $432 million clean-up trust fund for an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that has been spilling since 2004. ... More
New York, December 27 (RHC)-- Airlines worldwide canceled more than 2,300 flights on Sunday, the third straight day of cancellations. Staff shortages due to positive tests for COVID-19 have been blamed for the holiday chaos.... More
Cape Town, December 27 (RHC)-- South Africa has started a week of mourning to honor anti-apartheid icon and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who died in a Cape Town nursing home on Sunday at age 90.... More
Brasilia, December 27 (RHC)-- A study by pollster Datafolha has revealed that at least 37 percent of low-income Brazilians do not have enough food to supply all their family. ... More
Caracas, December 27 (RHC)-- Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, in an interview for Al Mayadeen, says that the Venezuelan people resisted fierce attacks launched by U.S. imperialism and its allies, and discusses relations with some countries, including Iran and Syria.... More
Brasilia, December 27 (RHC)-- The former president of Brazil and presidential candidate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, questioned this Sunday the opinion of the current Minister of Health that discourages vaccinating minors against the COVID-19 pandemic.... More
Tel Aviv, December 26 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said the country intends to double the number of settlers in the occupied Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant to further consolidate Israel’s hold on the territory it captured from Syria more than 50 years ago.... More
Buenos Aires, December 26 (RHC)-- Argentina has issued a protest against statements made by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson regarding London's alleged sovereignty over the Malvinas Islands and other archipelagos in the southern Atlantic Ocean.... More
Santiago de Chile, December 26 (RHC)-- Militants of the Communist Party (PC) of Chile held in the General Cemetery of Santiago de Chile an act of atonement to its historic leader Gladys Marín, after the mausoleum where her remains were vandalized by followers of the ultra-right presidential candidate José Antonio Kast (Social Christian Front) last December 18.... More
La Paz, December 26 (RHC)-- Bolivian President Luis Arce, during his Christmas message to the nation, highlighted the achievements of the South American country in 2021 and reiterated his government's commitments for the New Year.... More
Tripoli, December 26 (RHC)-- The bodies of at least 27 Europe-bound migrants have washed ashore in western Libya, the country’s Red Crescent has said – the latest tragedy on the world’s deadliest migration route.... More
Johannesburg, December 26 (RHC)-- Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s retired archbishop and anti-apartheid icon, has died aged 90. Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, died on Sunday.... More
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