Geneva, June 1 (RHC)-- In Geneva, officials at the World Health Organization have called for a new international treaty on pandemic preparedness. WHO Emergencies Director Mike Ryan said that in the fight against emerging diseases, pathogens have the upper hand. ... More
Dallas, June 1 (RHC)-- Ex-President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, has called for a military coup d’état to overthrow the U.S. government -- similar to the February coup in Burma that killed hundreds of people. ... More
Phoenix, June 1 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Arizona, prison officials have revived a decades-old gas chamber and are planning to use hydrogen cyanide -- the same deadly gas used by Nazis at Auschwitz and other extermination camps -- to kill people on death row.... More
Louisville, June 1 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a lawsuit filed by an imprisoned anti-fascist activist alleges guards at the McCreary Federal Prison in Kentucky allowed white supremacist gang members to beat him in 2018. Eric King is currently serving a 10-year sentence for throwing Molotov cocktails at an empty building in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2014 amid Black Lives Matter protests. ... More
New York, June 1 (RHC)-- U.S. tech employees and Palestinian rights activists are lobbying companies like Amazon and Google to sever their ties to the Israeli regime and accuse Facebook of "silencing" their cause of boycotting Israel in the wake of the recent Israeli aggression against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.... More
Geneva, June 1 (RHC)-- Coronavirus variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid misreporting and stigmatising nations where they were first detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced.... More
Lima, June 1 (RHC)-- Peru announced on Monday a sharp increase in its COVID-19 death toll, saying there have been more than 180,000 fatalities since the pandemic hit early last year, making it the country with the worst death rate per capita in the world.... More
Mexico City, June 1 (RHC)-- Mexico has accused international fashion brands Zara, Anthropologie, and Patowl of cultural appropriation, saying they used patterns from Indigenous Mexican groups in their designs without any benefit to the communities.... More
New York, June 1 (RHC)-- More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are directly due to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change. But scientists say that is only a sliver of climate change’s overall toll – even more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming such as storms, flooding and drought – and the heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures.... More
Caracas, June 1 (RHC)-- Eight Venezuelan soldiers who had been kidnapped by armed groups on the Colombian border have been rescued in a military operation, the Venezuelan Defense Ministry has announced. The ministry said in a statement that the operation to rescue the kidnapped soldiers had taken place in the southern Apure State, on the border with Colombia, on Monday.... More
Ramallah, June 1 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR) says Israel pursues “systematic and deliberate extermination of entire Palestinian families.” The rights group made the remarks in a fact sheet issued on Monday, stressing that such brutal extermination by the Israeli regime is carried out based on a “pattern,” the Palestinian Information Center reported.... More
United Nations, June 1 (RHC)-- The United Nations says Israel’s demolition campaign against Palestinian homes and structures across the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds soared dramatically in April compared to the similar month last year, marking a 90 percent increase in the number of structures targeted across the occupied territories.... More
United Nations, May 31 (RHC)-- Severe acute childhood malnutrition is expected to more than double this year in Haiti as the country struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, a spike in violence, and dwindling resources, according to a report from the United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF).... More
Brasilia, May 31 (RHC)-- Brazil's Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) revealed in its report "Conflicts in the Countryside of Brazil: 2020" that the South American country reports the highest number of land conflicts, land invasions and murders in conflicts in that area recorded by the CPT since 1985. ... More
United Nations, May 31 (RHC)-- A United Nations official in Gaza has tendered an apology for his remarks that the recent Israeli airstrikes on the besieged strip appeared to have been carried out with “sophistication” and “precision.”... More
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