Kabul, August 23 (RHC)-- An Afghan security guard has been killed in a firefight between unknown gunmen and Afghan forces at the north gate of Kabul airport, the German military said, as thousands thronged the airport, seeking to flee Taliban rule.... More
London, August 23 (RHC)-- As part of their nationwide campaign against an Israeli arms manufacturer, pro-Palestine activists in the UK have staged a protest outside the company’s plant in the borough of Oldham.... More
West Jerusalem, August 23 (RHC)-- In the 32 C (89.6 F) heat of an Israeli summer, parents and children waited -- some patiently and some less so -- in a line outside a testing station for their children’s turn to receive the newly approved Sofia COVID-19 test.... More
New York, August 23 (RHC)-- Israeli air raids that demolished four high-rise buildings in the besieged Gaza Strip during its assault on the enclave in May apparently violated international laws of war, a leading international human rights group said Monday, calling on the Israeli military to produce evidence justifying the attacks.... More
New Delhi, August 23 (RHC)-- India has authorized emergency use of another Indian-made COVID-19 vaccine, after its producer said it prevented symptomatic infections in two-thirds of recipients. Regulators approved ZyCoV-D even though there’s no publicly available data on its performance in advanced clinical trials.... More
New York, August 23 (RHC)-- A new report by UNICEF warns nearly half of the world’s 2.2 billion children are at “extremely high risk” of severe floods, heat waves, drought and other impacts of the climate crisis. ... More
Washington, August 23 (RHC)-- As the Delta variant continues to fuel another devastating COVID surge, the U.S. is now averaging 1,000 daily deaths for the first time since March. One in five intensive care units across the United States are at or above 95% capacity as some states are seeing more hospitalizations than during the winter peak.... More
Brasilia, August 23 (RHC)-- In Brazil, a judge of the Federal District Federal Court, Pollyanna Alves, annulled this Sunday a new complaint against former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, considering that there is no evidence to blame the leader of the Workers' Party (PT).... More
San Jose, August 23 (RHC)-- The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, called for a reduction in the environmental footprint in order to obtain a more sustained growth in Latin America and the Caribbean.... More
United Nations, August 23 (RHC)-- The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that millions of people in Lebanon could face a critical shortage of water or be cut off completely in the coming days in the wake of a severe fuel crisis in the cash-strapped Arab nation.... More
Gaza City, August 23 (RHC)-- Palestinian groups in Gaza have pledged to continue protests along the border to pressure Israel to remove its blockade and to allow for the reconstruction of Gaza following the recent 11-day Israeli assault on the coastal enclave.... More
Kabul, August 23 (RHC)-- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed concern over humanitarian needs in Afghanistan and called on neighboring countries to open their borders.... More
Port-au-Prince, August 23 (RHC)-- The death toll from the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti last week rose to 2,207, and 344 people are still missing, the Civil Protection Agency reported Sunday.... More
Sao Paulo, August 22 (RHC)-- The State Sanitary Surveillance fined the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for the sixth time since June after failing to comply with health regulations on the mandatory use of masks during a visit to Sao Paulo.... More
La Paz, August 22 (RHC)-- Bolivia's Minister of Justice and Institutional Transparency, Iván Lima, reports that the Plurinational Victim Assistance Service (Sepdavi) will immediately begin to census the victims of violence and massacres during the coup d'état perpetrated in 2019.... More
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