La Paz, September 10 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Attorney General's Office has issued preventive imprisonment for six months to former police commander, Rodolfo Montero, who is charged with the crimes of alleged genocide, homicide, serious and minor injuries associated with the Senkata massacre that occurred in 2019.... More
Brasilia, September 10 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is to meet by videoconference on Thursday with truckers leading blockades of highways in multiple states across the country, the infrastructure ministry said.... More
London, September 10 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom has approved plans to turn away boats carrying migrants and asylum seekers to its shores, deepening a rift with France over how to deal with a surge of people risking their lives by trying to cross the English Channel in small dinghies.... More
Brasilia, September 10 (RHC)-- Thousands of indigenous women camped this Thursday in front of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) waiting for this body to reject the ruralist thesis that ends the demarcation of their lands.... More
United Nations, September 10 (RHC)-- About 97 percent of Afghanistan’s population may sink below the poverty line unless the country’s political and economic crises are addressed, the United Nations has warned.... More
Brasilia, September 9 (RHC)-- The chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court has said encouraging people to disobey the court’s rulings is an anti-democratic act, a day after President Jair Bolsonaro said he would not obey the decisions of a member of the court.... More
Washington, September 9 (RHC)-- Amid lagging vaccination rates, new COVID-19 infections in the Americas are nearly double the rate they were at the same time last year, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says.... More
Geneva, September 9 (RHC)-- The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on wealthy countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines to refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year, expanding an earlier request that has been largely ignored.... More
New Delhi, September 9 (RHC)-- Indian authorities are restricting major religious festivals that start this week and attract huge crowds, warning that a new COVID-19 wave had already begun in the financial capital, Mumbai.... More
United Nations, September 9 (RHC)-- Hundreds of millions of children in South Asia are suffering because their schools have been closed due to coronavirus but they lack online devices and connections for remote learning, UNICEF says.... More
Ramallah, September 9 (RHC)-- Dozens of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been wounded in confrontations with Israeli soldiers while protesting in solidarity with six Palestinian men who managed to escape a high-security Israeli prison earlier this week.... More
Kabul, September 9 (RHC)-- While it won’t bring back their children, a fair investigation would at least restore their honor, two Afghan fathers from a family of which 10 of members were killed in a US drone strike in Kabul have told RT.... More
New Orleans, September 9 (RHC)-- New Orleans has lifted a nightly curfew as the US city moves closer to regaining full power 10 days after Hurricane Ida, but hundreds of thousands of people outside the city were still without lights and water, and more than a quarter of a million children were unable to return to schools.... More
Kabul, September 9 (RHC)-- Around 200 Americans and other foreign nationals are scheduled to fly out of Afghanistan for Qatar as international passenger flights from Kabul airport are expected to resume. ... More
Vancouver, September 9 (RHC)-- In western Canada, environmental and First Nations activists have been staging a months-long anti-logging resistance in Vancouver Island’s ancient forests. Land defenders with the Fairy Creek blockade are calling on others to join them in Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience to save the remaining trees, which are hundreds of years old.... More
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