Minneapolis, July 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Minnesota, Indigenous-led water protectors continue to take nonviolent direct action to stop construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline. ... More
Tampa, July 8 (RHC)-- At least one person was killed and several others injured Wednesday after Tropical Storm Elsa made landfall on Florida’s northern Gulf Coast. ... More
Brasilia, July 8 (RHC)-- The former director of Logistics of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Roberto Dias, accused of asking for a bribe for the acquisition of vaccines against COVID-19, was arrested this Wednesday for perjury. He was released, however, a few hours later after posting bail.... More
Baghdad, July 8 (RHC)-- American diplomats and troops in Iraq and Syria have been targeted in three rocket and drone attacks in the past 24 hours, US and Iraq officials said on Wednesday, including at least 14 rockets hitting an Iraqi airbase hosting US forces, wounding two American service members.... More
Brussels, July 8 (RHC)-- North America witnessed its hottest June on record battered by a deadly heatwave searing parts of the region, according to the European Union’s climate monitoring service. The EU said on Wednesday that its findings illustrate the effects of global warming.... More
Ramallah, July 8 (RHC)-- Israeli forces demolished the Palestinian Bedouin community of Humsa al-Baqai’a in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday, including living and farming structures provided by the international community.... More
Montevideo, July 8 (RHC)-- The Uruguayan Foreign Ministry informed this Wednesday in the framework of the LVIII Ordinary Meeting of the Common Market Council (CMC) of MERCOSUR - States Parties and Bolivia, that the country will begin talks with third parties to negotiate trade agreements without being approved by the regional entity.... More
Port-au-Prince, July 8 (RHC)-- Haiti's national police have arrested multiple men suspected of assassinating President Jovenel Moise, the government announced, adding that a gun battle with the alleged perpetrators lasted several hours.... More
United Nations, July 8 (RHC)-- The socioeconomic situation in the Gaza Strip has been severely weakened as a result of the Israeli offensive in May, a report (PDF) by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank has found.... More
Bogota, July 7 (RHC)-- The Colombian government used “excessive and disproportionate” force during mass protests earlier this year, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said in a long-awaited report released on Wednesday.... More
Washington, July 7 (RHC)-- Despite a decline in overall COVID-19 cases and deaths in the Americas, last week the region accounted for more than half of global deaths from the disease, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).... More
Geneva, July 7 (RHC)-- Countries easing their COVID-19 restrictions have been warned by the World Health Organization (WHO) to exercise “extreme caution” in order to preserve the “gains” made by imposing lockdowns and other public health measures.... More
Bogota, July 7 (RHC)-- Authorities in the department of Meta, in central Colombia, announced Wednesday the discovery of four bodies in the village of San Isidro, between the municipalities of Mesetas and Uribe, in what is cataloged as the 49th massacre in that South American nation so far in 2021.... More
Havana, July 7 (RHC)-- World leaders have reacted with shock and revulsion to the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise. The United Nations Security Council expressed its dismay over the murder of Haiti’s president, who was slain in his home in an attack that wounded his wife.... More
Geneva, July 7 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) has added “lifesaving” interleukin-6 receptor blockers to its list of treatments for COVID-19 – only the second drugs to be recommended as effective against the disease – as the pandemic continues to accelerate across the world.... More
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