Iranian foreign minister says U.S. plots to assassinate leaders while accusing others of kidnappings
Tehran, July 17 (RHC)-- The Iranian foreign minister says the U.S. government is involved in hatching assassination plots against the leaders of certain countries while accusing others of kidnapping operations to conceal its criminal acts.... More
Paris, July 17 (RHC)-- The Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after nine months of shutdown caused by the COVID pandemic, the landmark’s longest closure since World War II. The lifts of the “Iron Lady” again whisked tourists to its 300-metre (1,000-foot) summit and its majestic views of the French capital as a marching band played.... More
Ramallah, July 17 (RHC)-- Dozens of Palestinians have been injured during clashes with Israeli forces, who attacked anti-settlement protesters in several areas across the occupied West Bank.... More
Moscow, July 17 (RHC)-- Leaders of the Asia-Pacific trade group APEC, including US President Joe Biden, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and China’s Xi Jinping, pledged on Friday to work to expand sharing and manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines to fight the global pandemic.... More
Los Angeles, July 15 (RHC)-- In the U.S., Los Angeles County will require everyone — including those who’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 — to resume wearing masks indoors, as infections of the Delta variant continue to rise across the United States.... More
Washington, July 16 (RHC)-- In Washington, the Congressional Progressive Caucus is calling on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to stop obstructing a waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines at the World Trade Organization. ... More
Geneva, July 16 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization warns the pandemic triggered a massive decline in the number of children vaccinated against measles, polio, meningitis and other preventable diseases. ... More
Berlin, July 16 (RHC)-- Over 110 people have died following massive floods in west Germany and Belgium — triggered by some of the heaviest rainfall many European countries have seen in at least a century. Most of the fatalities are in Germany, where some 1,300 people have also been reported missing.... More
San Francisco, July 16 (RHC)-- Raging wildfires in the western United States and Canada are filling the sky with smoke across much of North America... More
Amsterdam, July 16 (RHC)-- In the Netherlands, renowned crime reporter Peter R. de Vries died yesterday after being shot in an attack in Amsterdam last week. ... More
Havana, July 16 (RHC)-- Bolivian President Luis Arce has denounced, once again, the complicity of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the 2019 coup d'état in his country. Arce pointed directly to the responsibility of the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, who apparently knew in advance of the coup against the government of President Evo Morales.... More
Brazzaville, July 16 (RHC)-- Coronavirus-linked deaths in Africa surged by 43 percent in the space of a week, driven by a lack of intensive-care beds and oxygen, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, as the new Delta variant surged on the continent.... More
Port-au-Prince, July 16 (RHC)-- Sporadic protests have broken out in Haiti’s capital over growing insecurity and fuel shortages in the Caribbean country, which is still in shock after the recent assassination of President Jovenel Moise by a hit squad with suspected ties to the United States.... More
Berlin, July 16 (RHC)-- Berlin police have carried out searches targeting five of its officers suspected of airing far-right anti-government views, as part of an investigation into possible acts of sedition committed by the allegedly extremist cops.... More
Geneva, July 16 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization is warning that the Covid-19 pandemic has entered the "early stages of a third wave" as the fast-spreading Delta variant of the virus causes cases to spike, wiping out progress made through vaccines.... More
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