Washington, December 5 (RHC)-- A new report reveals the CIA has had credible evidence that at least ten of if staff members or contractors were involved in child abuse crimes over the past 14 years, with only one of them being ever charged.... More
Geneva, December 5 (RHC)-- Human rights groups are demanding the United Nations reopen an investigation into atrocities committed in Yemen, after the UN Human Rights Council voted in October against extending an independent war crimes investigation. ... More
United Nations, December 4 (RHC)-- United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned travel bans imposed by dozens of countries on Southern African nations that first detected the Omicron variant, blasting the restrictions as “travel apartheid.” ... More
Mexico City, December 4 (RHC)-- The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has expressed his appreciation to China for its collaboration in the fight against COVID-19, by sending vaccines to Mexico in order to combat the pandemic. ... More
La Paz, December 4 (RHC)-- The executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, rejected this Friday the hoarding of vaccines against Covid-19, leaving as a consequence the appearance of the new Omicron variant.... More
Singapore, December 4 (RHC)-- In a cruel twist of irony, a man was sentenced to seven weeks in jail by a Singapore court for breaching a COVID-19 “stay at home” order despite being homeless.... More
Buenos Aires, December 4 (RHC)-- Argentina’s former president Mauricio Macri has been charged with ordering the surveillance of family members of 44 sailors who died in a 2017 navy submarine sinking. The charge carries a sentence of three to 10 years in prison and comes after Macri was subpoenaed and testified in a federal court in October.... More
Berlin, December 4 (RHC) -- German leaders have ordered tough new restrictions for people not vaccinated against COVID-19, as Germany and many other European nations experience their worst surge of the pandemic. ... More
United Nations, December 4 (RHC)-- The United Nations has warned that the need for humanitarian aid is skyrocketing worldwide and will reach an all-time high next year, as the pandemic, climate change and conflict push more people to the brink of famine.... More
Mexico City, Decenber 4 (RHC)-- Mexico’s foreign ministry has said the Mexican and U.S. foreign development agencies will work together on a project to address the root causes of migration from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.... More
Geneva, December 4 (RHC)-- The Omicron variant has continued to spread fear and uncertainty as infections from the mutant coronavirus cropped up in more corners of the globe, with one official lamenting that the wait for more scientific information on its dangers feels like “an eternity.”... More
Geneva, December 4 (RHC)-- The Regional Bureau of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean, a part of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has urged governments and education systems in the area to intensify efforts to improve student learning and make the right to quality education effective.... More
Berlin, December 4 (RHC)-- Germany has reported the highest number of deaths from coronavirus since mid-February as hospitals warn that the country could have 6,000 people in intensive care by Christmas, more than the peak of last winter.... More
La Paz, December 4 (RHC)-- The president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, said Friday that in that nation there are people who do not want the permanence of the Plurinational State and ignore the original Indigenous peoples.... More
Sanaa, December 4 (RHC)-- At least 16 people, including children, have been killed in Saudi-led strikes in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta'izz, a report says, as Saudi Arabia keeps bombing the southern impoverished neighbor in defiance of international calls to end its bloody war.... More
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