Brasilia, August 29 (RHC)-- In Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro addressed a crowd of his supporters in the capital Brasilia, urging everyone to get a rifle as soon as possible.... More


United Nations, August 29 (RHC)-- The United Nations says Israeli authorities have torn down, seized, or forced owners to demolish a total of 31 Palestinian-owned buildings across the occupied West Bank in two weeks.... More


London, August 29 (RHC)-- Britain admits it has left behind hundreds of desperate people trying to leave the Taliban rule in Afghanistan, as the UK civilian evacuation effort came to an end in the capital Kabul.... More


Mexico City, August 29 (RHC)-- The government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposed on Saturday to abolish the Organization of American States (OAS) and create a new regional body to eliminate interventionism.... More


Brasilia, August 29 (RHC)-- Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has acknowledged in a public address that the country is facing the worst water crisis in 91 years, and called on the population to save electricity and turn off lights in their homes.... More


London, August 29 (RHC)-- The Delta variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 doubles the risk of hospitalisation compared with the Alpha variant it has supplanted as the dominant strain worldwide, researchers reported in The Lancet on Saturday.... More


Gaza City, August 29 (RHC)-- Unmanned Israeli aerial vehicles conduct airstrikes against targets located in the central part of the Gaza Strip, amid the regime’s successive crackdowns on Palestinian protests across the Tel Aviv-blockaded coastal sliver.... More


Gaza City, August 29 (RHC)-- A 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the head by Israeli forces during a demonstration at the Gaza-Israel border last week has died of his wounds, Gaza health officials said.... More


Tehran, August 28 (RHC)-- Iran’s top security official says threatening to use “other options” against Iran – the terminology commonly used to refer to military action – is an "illegal threat" to another country, giving Iran the right to resort to its own “available options” in response.... More


Washington, August 28 (RHC)-- The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration’s temporary moratorium on evictions during the pandemic.  In a 6-3 ruling, the court’s conservative majority ruled the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its authority and that only Congress had the power to order a pause on evictions. ... More


Kabul, August 28 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom’s defence chief has promised to “get to the bottom of” a security lapse that saw documents identifying Afghan staff members and job applicants left behind at the abandoned British Embassy in Kabul.... More


London, August 28 (RHC)-- The risk of rare blood clotting after receiving first doses of AstraZeneca or Pfizer COVID-19 jabs is far lower than from the virus, a large-scale study by researchers from the University of Oxford found on Friday.... More


Washington, August 28 (RHC)-- U.S. Congressmember Ilhan Omar is calling on President Joe Biden to pardon whistleblower Daniel Hale, a former member of the U.S. Air Force sentenced in July to 45 months in prison for leaking classified information exposing the U.S. drone and targeted assassination program. ... More


United Nations, August 28 (RHC)-- The United Nations has raised the alarm about the “catastrophic” humanitarian situation in Afghanistan following years of conflict exacerbated by the U.S.-led invasion of the war-torn country and the coronavirus pandemic.... More


New York, August 28 (RHC)-- As the Delta variant of the coronavirus races across the United States, the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 has risen to 100,000, the highest since January when the pandemic peaked in the U.S.... More


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