Richmond, September 9 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Virginia, work crews removed a monument to Confederate Army leader Robert E. Lee near the state Capitol in Richmond Thursday, more than a year after Democratic Governor Ralph Northam ordered it taken down. Hundreds of onlookers cheered as the 21-foot statue to General Lee was taken off its pedestal and cut into pieces.... More
United Nations, September 9 (RHC)-- On Wednesday, United Nations officials said the COVAX initiative to bring vaccines to poor and middle-income nations was falling further behind its initial target of 2 billion doses this year. COVAX is now projecting about 1.4 billion doses delivered through December.... More
Brasilia, September 8 (RHC)-- Thousands of indigenous women began to occupy the city of Brasilia to participate in a series of events and debates to make their demands visible and elaborate a final text that gathers their claims.... More
Buenos Aires, September 8 (RHC)-- The Latin American Summit on Climate Change is hosted by Argentina and hosted by President Alberto Fernandez, who opened the meeting to discuss the current environmental crisis affecting the region and the world.... More
Ramallah, September 8 (RHC)-- Israeli forces are arresting relatives of Palestinian prisoners on the run after their brazen escape from a high-security prison in Israel. Addameer, the Palestinian prisoner support and human rights association, said on Wednesday at least seven family members of the escapees were detained by Israeli soldiers throughout the occupied West Bank, though some were held only briefly.... More
Bogota, September 8 (RHC)-- Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó must answer for crimes against humanity, and there will be no agreement in Venezuela until the U.S. lifts sanctions, predicts an analyst.... More
San Salvador, September 8 (RHC)-- People marched in El Salvador’s capital to protest against the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender amid a bumpy initial rollout of systems to support the digital currency.... More
Richmond, September 8 (RHC)-- In a move that will cap decades of activism, crews are set to remove one of the United States’ largest remaining Confederate statues – a towering statue of Robert E Lee in Richmond, Virginia.... More
Mexico City, September 8 (RHC)-- Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional to penalise abortion, a major victory for women’s health and reproductive rights that comes amid a “green wave” of abortion decriminalization in Latin America.... More
Sydney, September 8 (RHC)-- A group of Indigenous people has filed a complaint to the United Nations over Western Australia’s draft heritage protection laws, more than a year after mining company Rio Tinto legally destroyed historically and culturally significant rock shelters to expand a mine.... More
Brussels, September 8 (RHC)-- Pollution from coal-fired power stations on the European Union’s southeastern border are estimated to have caused thousands of deaths in the region due to breaches of legally-binding limits on harmful emissions.... More
New Delhi, September 8 (RHC)-- As COVID-19 cases and deaths exploded in India in April and May, New Delhi’s premier Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and several others ran so short of oxygen that many patients in the capital suffocated.... More
Atlanta, September 8 (RHC)-- In the United States, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that 75% of U.S. adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. ... More
Brussels, September 8 (RHC)-- A coalition of over 1,500 environmental and rights groups around the world is calling for the U.N. to postpone its annual climate talks, COP-26, scheduled for November in Scotland, because of entrenched vaccine inequality. ... More
Brasilia, September 8 (RHC)-- Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians rallied across the country on Tuesday in support of far-right populist President Jair Bolsonaro and his embattled administration, while calling for the removal of Supreme Court justices.... More
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