New Orleans, August 31 (RHC)-- Hurricane Ida has been downgraded to a tropical depression after it hit the Louisiana coast Sunday as a Category 4 storm on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. ... More
Kabul, August 31 (RHC)-- The U.S. military has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, bringing an official end to the longest war in U.S. history. Marine General Frank McKenzie said the last troops flew out of Kabul just before midnight local time in Kabul on Monday.... More
Kabul, August 31 (RHC)-- U.S. troops opened fire into the crowd of people at the scene of a bombing attack at the Kabul airport on Thursday, reportedly fearing another blast, witnesses have told RT.... More
Bogota, August 31 (RHC)-- The Supreme Court of Bogota refrained on Monday from holding the indictment hearing of former Army General Mario Montoya Uribe for his alleged responsibility in cases of extrajudicial executions at the hands of the military forces known in Colombia as false positives.... More
La Paz, August 31 (RHC)-- The Comptroller General of Bolivia, Henry Ara Pérez, affirmed that the Organization of American States (OAS) did not review the 35,000 minutes of the 2019 general elections, so it did not conduct an audit but a sampling.... More
Brasilia, August 31 (RHC)-- The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) revealed that 1.8 million children and adolescents, aged between five and 17 years, are in child labor.... More
La Paz, August 31 (RHC)-- The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America / Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) held a meeting on Monday with the ministers of Culture and Tourism of the member countries through a videoconference, in order to design a work agenda and face common challenges in the post-pandemic period.... More
Geneva, August 31 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has warned that another 236,000 people could die from COVID-19 in Europe by December 1st, sounding the alarm over rising infections and stagnating vaccine rates on the continent.... More
Berlin, August 31 (RHC)-- Germany's GDL train drivers' union said on Monday it would go on strike on September 1st for a week after wage talks with rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DBN.UL) failed to yield a compromise.... More
Brussels, August 31 (RHC)-- The European Union has instructed its members to remove the U.S. -- as well as Israel, Lebanon, Montenegro and North Macedonia -- from the list of safe countries for non-essential travel, citing the rising number of COVID-19 cases.... More
New York, August 31 (RHC)-- The number of hate crimes in the United States rose last year to the highest level in more than a decade, driven by a rise in assaults targeting Black victims and victims of Asian descent, the FBI reported.... More
Kabul, August 30 (RHC)-- Afghanistan’s healthcare system is at risk of collapse, two major aid agencies have told the Reuters news agency, after foreign donors stopped providing aid following the Taliban takeover.... More
La Paz, August 30 (RHC)-- Bolivia has denounced that the report of the Organization of American States (OAS), presented in November 2019, does not respond to an audit because a review of the 35,000 minutes was not carried out, so the regional body would have breached, in this way, the previous bilateral agreement.... More
Kabul, August 30 (RHC)-- The final U.S. military flight has left the Afghan capital, the Pentagon announced on Monday, officially ending the United States’ 20-year war in Afghanistan after a chaotic evacuation effort.... More
London, August 30 (RHC)-- In Britain, climate activists with Extinction Rebellion have been staging a series of daily actions to draw attention to the climate catastrophe.... More
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