Miami, October 29 (RHC)-- A detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center has offered the first public account in a United States court, of torture at a CIA clandestine facility during Washington’s decades-long so-called “war on terror.”... More
Washington, October 29 (RHC)-- The U.S. Department of Justice announced an $88 million settlement on Thursday with victims of a white supremacist who shot dead nine Black churchgoers in South Carolina in 2015.... More
Geneva, October 29 (RHC)-- Africa’s struggle to inoculate people against COVID-19 risks being hobbled by a shortage of syringes just as supplies of vaccines flood into the continent, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.... More
Paris, October 29 (RHC)-- Hundreds of tents were set up on a square near the iconic Hotel de Ville in Paris on Thursday, as homeless migrants, supported by an NGO, demanded better housing. The protest was later dispersed by police.... More
Cambridge, October 29 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Massachusetts, students at Harvard University have launched a three-day strike after talks between their union and Harvard administrators failed to produce a contract.... More
New York, October 29 (RHC)-- The pharmaceutical giant Merck said it will share the formula for its COVID-19 therapeutic drug molnupiravir with poor countries, allowing manufacturers to produce cheap, generic versions of the antiviral pill. ... More
Washington, October 29 (RHC)-- In the United States, at least 59,000 workers at the five largest U.S. meatpacking companies caught COVID-19 during the first year of the pandemic, and 269 workers died. ... More
Quito, October 29 (RHC)-- In Ecuador, the United Workers Front -- the Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (FUT) announced that the protest actions against the national government, announced days ago, will return after the five-day national holiday that begins this Friday.... More
London, October 29 (RHC)-- The British court hearing the U.S. prosecutor's appeal against the refusal to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced that it will take its time before deciding.... More
Panama City, October 29 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Panamanians from various sectors of the province of Colon mobilized this Thursday in a protest of increasing fuel prices. They also demanded actions by the government of President Laurentino Cortizo to address the lack of employment, the health situation and the deterioration of public infrastructure.... More
San Francisco, October 29 (RHC)-- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally stepped in to reinstate a misleading and potentially dangerous anti-abortion video to the social media site after Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley accused Facebook of censorship when the company removed the video over misinformation. ... More
Brasilia, October 29 (RHC)-- Violence against Indigenous people in Brazil surged by more than 60 percent last year, a rights group has said, as land invasions of Indigenous territories increased and the government failed to provide protection.... More
Washington, October 28 (RHC)-- The Biden administration has criticized Israeli plans to expand their illegal settlements, saying it jeopardizes the possibility of a two-state solution.... More
Buenos Aires, October 28 (RHC)-- The former president of Uruguay José Mujica received from the hands of Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, the Order of the Liberator José de San Martín -- the highest recognition that the country grants to a foreign citizen.... More
Kabul, October 28 (RHC)-- Pakistan’s information minister warned Afghanistan is on the brink of collapse and urged the international community to engage with the Taliban and unfreeze billions of dollars of Afghan assets overseas in order to prevent a humanitarian disaster.... More
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