Ramallah, January 6 (RHC)-- Palestine has strongly condemned the intrusion of Israel’s far-right minister into the al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied Old City of al-Quds, warning that the violation of international law, as well as the historical status quo of the site, could trigger a "religious war."... More


Lima, January 6 (RHC)-- Peaceful protests in Peru against the government of Dina Boluarte entered their third consecutive day on Friday, with demands for the release of former president Pedro Castillo, the closure of Congress, the advancement of general elections and the convening of a constituent process.... More


Brasilia, January 6 (RHC)-- The Brazilian government said on Thursday that the country "fully and immediately" is to rejoin the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), a bloc from which it had left in January 2020 under the administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro.... More


Entebbe, January 6 (RHC)-- Africa’s top public health body has said the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was coming under control, as it had been 39 days since the last confirmed case of the virus was reported in the country.... More


Jerusalem, January 6 (RHC)-- The Anglican Church has expressed “dismay” over an attack on a Christian cemetery close to Jerusalem’s walled Old City.  Security camera footage taken on New Year’s Day shows two men entering the graveyard, toppling a cross-shaped tombstone and smashing it to pieces. ... More


Bogota, January 5 (RHC)-- The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, signed a presidential decree that creates the Ministry of Equality and Equity, in Istmina, Chocó, which will be led by the country's vice president Francia Márquez.... More


Washington, January 5 (RHC)-- In the United States, newly released documents reveal the Pentagon’s top general had to dissuade senior Trump administration officials from attempting to court-martial retired military officers who wrote editorials critical of Donald Trump.  ... More


Hebron, January 5 (RHC)--Israel’s military has begun demolishing homes, water supplies and olive orchards in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank, near Hebron.  This week, Israeli armored vehicles accompanied demolition crews as they razed homes and farms in two villages. ... More


Madrid, January 5 (RHC)-- Record high winter temperatures have swept across parts of Europe into the New Year, bringing calls from climate activists for faster action against global warming while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices.  Hundreds of sites have seen temperature records smashed, from Switzerland to Poland and Hungary.... More


San Francisco, January 5 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency and ordered evacuations as a cyclone slammed into the San Francisco Bay Area Wednesday night with hurricane-force winds and torrential downpours. ... More


La Paz, January 5 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillo, has denied that the governor of the department of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, is a political prisoner -- revealing at least 33 pieces of evidence that the detainee financed the 2019 coup d'état.... More


Miami, January 5 (RHC)-- The former minister of the Bolivian de facto government headed by Jeanine Áñez, Arturo Murillo, has been sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison in the United States for the crimes of international bribery and money laundering.... More


London, January 5 (RHC)-- Disabled people in the United Kingdom are among the hardest hit by the cost-of-living crisis, a new report has concluded, with comparatively low incomes leaving them exposed to soaring prices.... More


Tegucigalpa, January 5 (RHC)-- Authorities of the National Police of Honduras have reported the murder of three women in the last 24 hours in different points of the Central American country.... More


La Paz, January 5 (RHC)-- Bolivia closed 2022 with 0.1 percent lethality of COVID-19 disease, the lowest in the region, according to reports from the nation's Ministry of Health and Sports.  "If we analyze the lethality rate in the last epidemiological event, our last wave, whatever you want to call it, we have a lethality of 0.1 percent (...) compared to other countries," said the Minister of Health and Sports, Jeyson Auza at a press conference.... More


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