New Orleans, August 27 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Louisiana, a lawyer for a Black motorist who was brutally beaten by a white State Police trooper more than two years ago has obtained body-camera video of the incident. ... More
Kabul, August 26 (RHC)-- Dozens of civilians and at least 12 members of the U.S. military have been killed and many more injured in Kabul suicide bombing attacks claimed by the Daesh terrorist group. Two explosions rocked the area outside the airport in the Afghan capital on Thursday amid the precarious security situation following the Taliban’s takeover of the country.... More
Washington, August 26 (RHC)-- The notorious U.S. mercenary firm Blackwater has prompted public outrage after reports said its head, Erik Prince, is charging $6,500 per person to fly people out of Afghanistan as the evacuation deadline looms amid the Taliban control.... More
Washington, August 26 (RHC)-- The Pan American Health Organization warned Wednesday that vaccine inequity is unnecessarily prolonging the pandemic. The organization’s director, Dr. Carissa Etienne, said donations from wealthy countries were far too little to protect the hundreds of millions of people who remain vulnerable.... More
Caracas, August 26 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia greeted on Wednesday the support and willingness of the Peruvian Government to accompany the dialogue process between the Government presided by Nicolas Maduro and the Unitary Platform of Opposition, offering itself as an alternate venue with Mexico for the talks between both political sectors.... More
Beijing, August 26 (RHC)--Amid Washington's efforts to put as much a political spin as it can on the COVID-19 pandemic’s “origin,” China urges that the U.S.’s own laboratories be subject to investigations into the source of the phenomenon... More
Kabul, August 26 (RHC)-- At least 13 people have been killed in two powerful explosions outside Kabul’s international airport, amid a huge and chaotic evacuation effort from Afghanistan.... More
Sanaa, August 26 (RHC)-- UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, says one child dies as every 10 minutes go by in Yemen, where a seven-year-old Saudi Arabia-led war is in full swing.... More
Geneva, August 26 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization is calling on wealthy countries to impose a two-month moratorium on COVID-19 booster shots until poorer nations can inoculate their most vulnerable residents. ... More
La Paz, August 26 (RHC)-- Bolivia's ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS), Héctor Arce Zaconeta, denounced this Wednesday at the headquarters of the organization Secretary General Luis Almagro, whom he accused of being behind a new intervention into the internal affairs of the country.... More
Gaza City, August 26 (RHC)-- A Palestinian man has died of gunshot wounds he sustained when Israeli military forces opened fire on a group of Palestinians attending a rally against the Tel Aviv regime along the border fence separating the blockaded Gaza Strip from the occupied territories.... More
Caracas, August 25 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia held on Tuesday a working meeting with the Nicaraguan ambassador accredited to the Bolivarian nation, Yaosca Calderon.... More
Mexico City, August 25 (RHC)-- The government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador received on Tuesday a first group of five women from Afghanistan, after the Taliban movement came to power in that Asian country, official sources reported.... More
Caracas, August 26 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, signed this Wednesday an emergency decree for 90 days in view of the damages caused in several states of the country by heavy rains and floods.... More
Brasilia, August 25 (RHC)-- Thousands of Brazilian Indigenous people adorned in colourful paint, beads and feathers have set up a protest camp outside of the Supreme Court in advance of an expected landmark ruling on whether they can reclaim lost ancestral lands.... More
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