Ciudad Juarez, July 4 (RHC)-- For Claudia, the journey from her small Guatemalan village in Guatemala to the US-Mexico border was complicated by the fact she could speak only her native Ixil, one of 21 Mayan languages in Guatemala.... More


Beijing, July 4 (RHC)-- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the international community to work together to build a “Great Wall of Immunity” against Covid-19 on Saturday.  During a speech to the 9th World Peace Forum in Beijing, Wang said China and the rest of the world need to “face the imminent challenges together.”... More


Paris, July 4 (RHC)-- French social justice activists have defaced the shopping windows of the newly reopened La Samaritaine store in the heart of Paris, owned by French luxury group LVMH (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton), to protest inequality.... More


Paris, July 4 (RHC)-- France has announced it will resume joint military operations in Mali -- its formal colony -- after suspending them early last month following the West African country’s second coup in less than a year.... More


Moscow, July 4 (RHC)-- Coronavirus deaths in Russia hit a record on Saturday for the fifth straight day, with the authorities reporting 697 fatalities as the country faces a rapid surge of infections.  The previous record on Friday was 679.... More


Gaza City, July 4 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has carried out another overnight raid on Hamas positions in the besieged Gaza Strip after saying incendiary balloons were launched from the Palestinian enclave... More


Tehran, July 4 (RHC)-- Iran’s outgoing president, Hassan Rouhani, has warned that the country will fall victim to yet another wave of coronavirus infections if authorities fail to stop the more transmissible Delta variant.  “It is feared that we are on the way to a fifth wave throughout the country,” Rouhani said at a coronavirus taskforce meeting.... More


Lima, July 4 (RHC)-- The Peruvian government has rejected the request of the Popular Force candidate, Keiko Fujimori, to convene international audits to review the votes in the presidential runoff election, while the National Jury of Elections (JNE) moves forward in examining the challenges presented after the second round of elections on June 6th.... More


Brasilia, July 4 (RHC)-- With massive, combative and peaceful demonstrations, thousands of Brazilians took to the streets on Saturday in 361 cities of that nation to demand the resignation of President Jair Bolsonaro and support the petition presented to the Chamber of Deputies to initiate an impeachment trial against him.... More


Ramallah, July 4 (RHC)-- Israel’s army has fatally shot a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health agency said, as local media reported Israeli soldiers and settlers had opened fire in a village south of the city of Nablus.... More


Brasilia, July 3 (RHC)-- In Brazil, Minister Rosa Weber, from the Supreme Federal Court, has authorized the opening of an investigation against the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, for the alleged crime of embezzlement in the case of the purchase of Covaxin anti-COVID-19 vaccines, by the Ministry of Health.... More


Vatican City, July 3 (RHC)-- The official bioethics academy of the Catholic Church has come forward alongside a host of global medical associations to demand an end to the “myths and disinformation” interfering with the fight against COVID-19.... More


Tokyo, July 3 (RHC)-- At least two people have been killed and many others have been reported missing on Saturday, after heavy rains hit Japan’s central city of Atami in Shizuoka, triggering landslides, according to the public broadcaster NHK.... More


San Salvador, July 3 (RHC)-- The attorney general’s office in El Salvador has seized some assets of the conservative opposition party in what it said was an attempt to recover funds embezzled from a donation from Taiwan between 2003 and 2004... More


Caracas, July 3 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan Government reports that, despite the criminal blockade against the country, it is making profound progress in the Mass Vaccination Plan against COVID-19.... More


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