Bolivian de facto government accused of excessive charges

La Paz, August 1 (RHC)-- The de facto coup government in Bolivia -- from November 2019 tp November 2020 -- made excessive charges to thousands of young people who served in the so-called Pre-Military Service in that period, denounced the Minister of Defense of the South American country, Edmundo Novillo.... More

French police clash with anti-COVID pass protesters in Paris

Paris, August 1 (RHC)-- Thousands of people have protested in Paris and other French cities against a mandatory coronavirus health pass for entry to a wide array of public venues, introduced by the government as it battles the fourth wave of infections.... More

ALBA-TCP Secretary condemns U.S. sanctions against Cuba

Caracas, July 31 (RHC)-- The Executive Secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorenti, condemned today the new U.S. sanctions against Cuban officials and institutions.... More

Member nations of African Union condemn Israel's observer status, move to expel Tel Aviv

Addis Ababa, July 31 (RHC)-- Algeria and 13 other African countries have agreed to expel Israel from the African Union after the body’s decision last week to grant observer status to the Tel Aviv regime.... More

Former Haitian first lady says killers left her for dead

Port-au-Prince, July 31 (RHC)-- The wife of Haiti’s murdered president, seriously wounded in the very attack that killed her husband, listened in terror as the gunmen ransacked their home, she said in her first interview since the assassination.... More

Millions across U.S. at risk of eviction as COVID surges

Washington, July 31 (RHC)-- Millions of people across the United States could be forced out of their homes as a nationwide moratorium on evictions is set to expire at midnight on Saturday amid a spike in coronavirus infections.... More

Argentinean president says the OAS is useless

Buenos Aires, July 31 (RHC)-- The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, said Friday that the Organization of American States (OAS) is not useful today and considers that the entity plays a role that does not contribute to the Latin American union.... More

Four injured in shooting and stabbing in Berlin parking lot

Berlin, July 31 (RHC)-- At least four people have been injured in a knife and gun attack in the Wedding neighborhood of Berlin, police told reporters. Officers have said the incident appears to have been targeted towards one of the victims.... More

Nearly half of all U.S. Republicans want to take the law into their own hands

Washington, July 31 (RHC)-- A new poll shows about 47 percent of Republicans in the U.S. believe that a time will come when “patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands.”... More

WHO says Delta variant warning to world, action needed to totally suppress COVID-19

Geneva, July 31 (RHC)-- The Delta variant of COVID-19 is a warning to the world to suppress the virus quickly before it mutates again into something even worse, the WHO said Friday.  The highly transmissible variant, first detected in India, has now surfaced in 132 countries and territories, the World Health Organization said.... More

CDC finds Delta variant as more contagious than the flu

Atlanta, July 31 (RHC)-- According to an internal CDC report, infections of the Delta variant could be just as transmissible from breakthrough infections in vaccinated people as from the unvaccinated, and could be more severe — with each infected person able to infect 8 to 9 others.... More

Former health official under Trump says unvaccinated will get Delta variant

Washington, July 31 (RHC)-- Adm. Brett Giroir, former U.S. President Doanld Trump’s coronavirus testing czar, has said that it is “just a matter of time” before all unvaccinated Americans become infected with the Delta variant of the coronavirus.... More

Argentinean province of Buenos Aires vaccinates over 18 years of age

Buenos Aires, July 31 (RHC)-- The largest immunization plan in the history of the Argentinean province of Buenos Aires, conceived to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, began its free vaccination phase on Friday for people over 18 years old in 400 health posts.... More

U.S. reports highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the world

Geneva, July 31 (RHC)-- In the last week, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States has reported the highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the world.... More

Poll shows Lula surpasses Bolsonaro in voting intentions

Brasilia, July 31 (RHC)-- According to a new poll published this Friday, the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leads the voting intention for the 2022 presidential elections in that country, when he would obtain 43.3 percent of the votes against 38.2 percent of the current head of state, Jair Bolsonaro.... More

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