Port-au-Prince, October 20 (RHC)-- A gang that kidnapped members of a Christian missionary group from the United States is demanding $1 million in ransom per person, a top Haitian official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.... More
Damascus, October 20 (RHC)-- A bomb attack on a bus carrying troops in the Syrian capital Damascus has killed at least 14 military personnel and wounded three others, state TV and a military official said.... More
Geneva, October 20 (RHC)-- The protracted war in Yemen has killed or maimed at least 10,000 children since the conflict began in March 2015, which is equivalent to four children every day, the UN children’s agency says.... More
Brasilia, October 20 (RHC)-- The senator leading a congressional investigation into Brazil’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has recommended that President Jair Bolsonaro face criminal charges – including homicide – over a catalogue of alleged government errors that led to the deaths of thousands of people.... More
Quito, October 19 (RHC)-- Indigenous communities from Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest have filed a lawsuit against the government of right-wing President Guillermo Lasso to halt his plans for a massive expansion of oil and mining extraction in the region — endangering millions of acres of pristine and sacred land and the livelihood of Indigenous nations. ... More
Miami, October 19 (RHC)-- In Miami, at least 10 immigrant justice advocates were arrested Monday after temporarily blocking the entrance to Port Miami by lying in the roadway. The act of civil disobedience was led by several groups calling on the Biden administration to end the deportation of Haitian asylum seekers and issue permanent and humane immigration relief for millions of people.... More
Washington, October 19 (RHC)-- In the U.S., NBC News reports the Department of Homeland Security is planning to build an “intelligence-gathering” cell to closely surveil the movement of groups of migrants in Central and South America who may be making their way to the United States to seek asylum.... More
Kenosha, October 19 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Wisconsin, a new lawsuit accuses the Kenosha Police Department of “deputizing” armed white nationalist vigilantes during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake last year. ... More
Managua, October 19 (RHC)-- The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) released a statement on Tuesday in which it categorically rejects recent statements by U.S. officials against the government of Nicaragua.... More
Miami, October 19 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in federal court on Monday in an attempt to block the U.S. Congress from obtaining White House records on the deadly January 6th Capitol insurrection.... More
Bogota, October 19 (RHC)-- The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) and Colombian media report Tuesday the murder of two social leaders and other acts of violence occurred in the departments of Valle del Cauca and Cauca (west, on the Pacific coast).... More
La Paz, October 19 (RHC)-- The Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and the popular organizations of that nation that make up the Unity Pact expressed their support for the government of President Luis Arce and declared themselves in a state of emergency to defeat destabilizing actions of the right wing.... More
Bogota, October 19 (RHC)-- The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued a ruling holding Colombia’s government responsible for the kidnap, torture and rape of a journalist by paramilitary groups in 2000.... More
Addis Ababa, October 19 (RHC)-- A new report by the United Nations has warned that more than 100 million “extremely poor” people across Africa are threatened by accelerating climate change that could also melt away the continent’s few glaciers within two decades.... More
London, October 19 (RHC)-- Many scientists are pressing the British government to reimpose social restrictions and speed up booster vaccinations as coronavirus infection rates, already Europe’s highest, rise still further.... More
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