San Salvador, July 9 (RHC)-- El Salvador’s government has expelled prominent Mexican journalist Daniel Lizárraga after he led investigations into government corruption at the Salvadoran online news source El Faro. ... More
Seattle, July 9 (RHC)-- A new analysis by the World Weather Attribution network finds this summer’s record-shattering heat wave in the Pacific Northwest would have been “virtually impossible without human-caused climate change.”... More
Dhaka, July 9 (RHC)-- A massive fire in a Bangladesh food processing factory has killed at least 52 people trapped by flames that forced many workers to leap for their lives from the upper floors, AFP news agency reports, citing police officials.... More
London, July 9 (RHC)-- Eleven people die every minute of hunger, according to a new report by Oxfam, which also found the number of those facing famine-like conditions globally has increased by six times over the past year.... More
La Paz, July 9 (RHC)-- The Bolivian government has denounced the participation of the former president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, in the 2019 coup d'état against Bolivia's legitimate President Evo Morales.... More
Port-au-Prince, July 9 (RHC)-- A 28-member hit squad made up of Americans and Colombians assassinated President Jovenel Moise, Haitian police said Thursday, adding that eight were still at large as the country lurched into political chaos.... More
Port-au-Prince, July 8 (RHC)-- Two men believed to be Haitian Americans — one of them purportedly a former bodyguard at the Canadian Embassy in Port au Prince — have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Haiti's president, a senior Haitian official said Thursday.... More
United Nations, July 8 (RHC)-- Acute food insecurity has soared 40 percent this year as recent food price hikes have exacerbated existing pressures from conflict, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said.... More
New Delhi, July 8 (RHC)-- In India, the coronavirus and a lockdown aimed at stopping it last year saw millions of people thrown out of jobs in cities and towns and forced back to their villages, and ever higher levels of debt.... More
Santo Domingo, July 8 (RHC)-- A large number of Dominicans residing in Haiti began to return to their country of origin through the border post of Dajabón on Wednesday, fearing the political instability caused by the assassination of Jovenel Moïse.... More
Rome, July 8 (RHC)-- In Rome, the verdict by which the Italian Supreme Court ratifies the sentences against 18 former military repressors from Latin America and the Caribbean -- participants in Operation Condor -- a repressive counterinsurgency plan at the time of the military tyrannies of the Southern Cone, is expected to be made public on Friday.... More
United Nations, July 8 (RHC)-- The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published Thursday its new forecast for 2021 in the region, which rises from the 3.7 percent estimated last December to a new 5.2 percent, a figure that will still be insufficient to recover the level of gross domestic product (GDP) of 2019.... More
Buenos Aires, July 8 (RHC)-- Imprisoned since January 16, 2016, Argentinean social and Indigenous leader Milagro Sala, founder of the Túpac Amaru organization, has faced a total of 16 cases against her and remains under house arrest -- when organizations and movements in her country are carrying out a broad campaign to demand her release.... More
Ramallah, July 8 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have demolished the family home of a Palestinian American man accused of being involved in a shooting that killed an Israeli and wounded two others in the occupied West Bank last May.... More
London, July 8 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom’s High Court has granted the Joe Biden administration the right to appeal a lower court’s ruling blocking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. ... More
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