Washington, September 22 (RHC)-- The United States reported over 2,200 coronavirus deaths in one day, bringing its death toll since the start of the pandemic to 676,000.  That’s more people than were killed by influenza across the U.S. during the 1918 pandemic. ... More


New York, September 22 (RHC)-- Youth activists around the globe are holding a global climate strike on Friday, September 24th -- which will coincide with the United Nation's Climate Week. ... More


Ramallah, September 22 (RHC)-- A Palestinian prisoners advocacy group says 100 Palestinian prisoners have decided to initiate a gradual strike if Israel continues its repressive measures against the inmates, which were increased following the recent escape of six prisoners from a high-security Israeli jail.   ... More


New York, September 22 (RHC)-- A lawyer for former Alan Weisselberg, the indicted Trump Organization chief financial officer, told a New York judge he has “strong reason to believe” more charges will be forthcoming in the state’s continuing criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s private real estate empire.... More


Washington, September 21 (RHC)-- Photos and video footage of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback chasing, grabbing and whipping Haitian asylum seekers on the border with Mexico in Texas have sparked widespread condemnation.  One border agent was heard screaming obscenities at refugees, including children, after they attempted to return to a makeshift camp where thousands have been staying underneath a bridge for days.... More


Bogota, September 21 (RHC)-- The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) has denounced the perpetration of another murder against a former signatory of the Peace Agreement between the Colombian State and the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP).... More


Washington, September 21 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden will ease foreign travel restrictions into the United States beginning in November, when his administration will require all foreign nationals flying into the country to be fully vaccinated.... More


United Nations, September 21 (RHC)-- United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres hosted a roundtable discussion with world leaders on the climate crisis, calling on nations, including the United States, to meet their commitments to a $100 billion-a-year climate fund. ... More


United Nations, September 21 (RHC)-- The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, expressed this Tuesday in the framework of the 76th General Assembly of the United Nations, that the international system has failed in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.... More


New York, September 21 (RHC)-- Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is in New York City to participate in the UN General Assembly session, where he spoke on Tuesday.  ... More


United Nations, September 21 (RHC)-- The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, opened the debate of heads of state and government of the 76th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations with a speech in which he mentioned the key points of his administration in front of his country.... More


Bogota, September 21 (RHC)-- The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) denounced on Monday that 124 social leaders and human rights defenders (HRDs) have been killed so far in 2021.... More


Caracas, September 21 (RHC)-- A new batch of the second dose of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 arrived on Monday at the International Airport of Maiquetia, to immunize the population of Venezuela, informed the Russian ambassador in Caracas, Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov.... More


Melbourne, September 21 (RHC)-- Australian authorities have shut down construction sites in Melbourne for two weeks after an anti-vaccine protest in the city turned violent and COVID-19 cases in the states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) surged.... More


Santiago de Chile, September 21 (RHC)-- Chilean constituent Rodrigo Rojas Vade has resigned from the Constitutional Convention through a video posted on his social network Instagram, after the media and political controversy about the cancer he said he had and that was denied by him years later.  ... More


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