Santiago de Chile, July 18 (RHC)-- The Chilean deputy for the Frente Amplio, Gabriel Boric Font, defeated this Sunday the mayor of Recoleta and leader of the Communist Party, Daniel Jadue Jadue, in the primary elections for Apruebo Dignidad, becoming the official presidential candidate for the coalition.... More
Santo Domingo, July 18 (RHC)-- The Government of the Dominican Republic reiterated this Sunday its call to the international community to contribute as much as possible to the creation of a favorable environment for internal dialogue in Haiti, necessary to overcome the current crisis.... More
New Delhi, July 18 (RHC)-- At least 25 people died in three Mumbai suburbs when several houses collapsed after landslides triggered by heavy rain, local officials said on Sunday.... More
Bangkok, July 18 (RHC)-- Thailand has expanded COVID-19 restrictions that include stay-at-home orders and a night-time curfew to three more provinces as the number of daily infections soared to a record high for a third consecutive day.... More
Beirut, July 18 (RHC)-- Doctors have warned that hospitals in Lebanon would struggle to cope with a large influx of coronavirus patients amid a surge in the number of new cases spurred by the highly contagious Delta variant.... More
Hebron, July 18 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement says Israeli settlers are the “legitimate target” of the Palestinian resistance due to recent reports showing that settlers and occupation forces cooperated in attacks that killed a number of Palestinians.... More
Jakarta, July 18 (RHC)-- After his work as a taxi driver dried up because of Indonesia’s new coronavirus restrictions, Ardi Novriansyah offered his driving skills to help his home city’s buckling medical system.... More
Lima, July 18 (RHC)-- Peru's National Jury of Elections (JNE) plans to proclaim the country's next president on Tuesday, July 20, once a lengthy process of challenges filed by Keiko Fujimori's right-wing Popular Force party has concluded.... More
Port-au-Prince, July 18 (RHC)-- The first lady of Haiti, Martine Moïse, returned Saturday to the country after the assassination perpetrated against her husband and president of the nation, Jovenel Moïse on July 5 in Port-au-Prince.... More
Ramallah, July 18 (RHC)-- Five Palestinians have gone on an indefinite hunger strike at the Israeli regime’s jails as their last resort to protest their similarly indefinite and unexplained imprisonment at the hands of the regime. The Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported the development, citing the Palestinian Prisoners' Affairs Authority.... More
Ramallah, July 18 (RHC)-- Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has released two videos showing armed Israeli settlers and masked Zionists fatally shooting Palestinians who did not pose any danger to them, with the Tel Aviv regime’s soldiers standing idly by... More
Ramallah, July 18 (RHC)-- Israel has razed the oldest and largest known Canaanite Cemetery in Palestine, an archeological gem, whose construction dates back to around 4,200 years ago. In order to build a bypass road in the occupied West Bank, Israeli bulldozers, heavily guarded by soldiers, destroyed the site in the town of Khader, south of Bethlehem, according to the Palestinian Information Center, citing the Office of the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.... More
Paris, July 18 (RHC)-- Beginning next week, unvaccinated visitors from the UK and five EU countries must submit a negative PCR or antigen test for Covid that was taken less than 24 hours before departure if they want to enter France. The deadline for a negative COVID-19 test was reduced from 48 hours before departure to 24 hours for unvaccinated travelers from the UK to France.... More
London, July 18 (RHC)-- British health minister Sajid Javid has said he tested positive for COVID-19, but that his symptoms were mild and he had had two doses of vaccine against the disease. Javid, who has been health secretary for three weeks, has backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plan to fully reopen England’s economy and scrap legal coronavirus restrictions beginning on Monday.... More
Panama City, July 18 (RHC)-- The United States Geological Survey (USGS) registered this Saturday a 6.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Panama. According to the USGS, the earthquake was registered in the area of Punta Burica, located in the Panamanian province of Chiriqui, the telluric movement was 130 kilometers to the south... More
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