New York, October 8 (RHC)-- The Wall Street Journal has revealed a small team of U.S. special operations forces and marines have been secretly operating in Taiwan for at least a year to help train Taiwanese military forces for a possible conflict with China. ... More
New York, October 8 (RHC)-- Pfizer and BioNTech have officially asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize its coronavirus vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11. The FDA is expected to rule on the request by the end of the month, meaning some 28 million children may soon be able to get vaccinated. ... More
Washington, October 8 (RHC)-- A new draft report from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has revealed Donald Trump directly asked the Justice Department nine times for help to overturn the 2020 election. ... More
Brasilia, October 8 (RHC)-- The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who on Thursday concluded a visit to the federal capital, Brasilia, as part of an agenda focused on seeking political alliances, reported that he is putting together his presidential pre-campaign team for the 2022 elections.... More
Langley, October 8 (RHC)-- The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced a new group that will focus solely on China and the strategic challenges posed by Beijing.... More
Austin, October 8 (RHC)-- In Texas, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the state’s near-total ban on abortions, granting the Justice Department’s emergency request to halt the law while courts consider its legality. ... More
United Nations, October 8 (RHC)-- The United Nations secretary-general has appointed Staffan de Mistura of Italy as his personal envoy for Western Sahara. The appointment comes after the post went vacant for over two years. ... More
Washington, October 8 (RHC)-- The United States reported more than 2,500 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, even as new cases continue to fall from a summer peak. ... More
United Nations, October 8 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, a United Nations agency will start paying to keep the country’s fragile healthcare infrastructure afloat after the flow of international aid dollars, which the health sector relied upon, dried up following the Taliban takeover in August. This includes paying the salaries of at least 25,000 health workers. ... More
Geneva, October 8 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has endorsed a first-of-its-kind vaccine against malaria for children in sub-Saharan Africa. The WHO said the vaccine proved to be safe and reduced severe malaria by 30% in children enrolled in a pilot program in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. ... More
Denver, October 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Colorado, workers at five Amazon warehouses are seeking class-action status for a lawsuit alleging the retail giant refused to pay them for time spent at employee-mandated COVID-19 screenings before the start of their shifts. ... More
Panama City, October 8 (RHC)-- More than 50 people have died so far this year while trying to cross the Panama jungle along a perilous migration route towards the United States, officials from the Central American country have said.... More
Ouagadougou, October 8 (RHC)-- Burkina Faso’s former President Blaise Compaore, the main defendant in a long-awaited trial on the 1987 assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, will boycott the upcoming proceedings, according to his lawyers.... More
Ramallah, October 8 (RHC)-- Palestinian and international rights groups have renewed a campaign demanding that digital payment giant PayPal stop excluding millions of Palestinians from accessing its services.... More
Stockholm, October 7 (RHC)-- The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded to Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah. ... More
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