The number of new people forced to move within their own countries by climate disasters rose to the highest in at least a decade in 2020, more than three times those displaced due to conflict and violence.... More
Beijing, May 25 (RHC)-- China has administered more than 500 million vaccines in the fight against Covid-19, inoculating more than 10 million people every day, as Beijing aims to have vaccinated 40% of its population by the end of June.... More
Kinshasa, May 25 (RHC)-- Powerful aftershocks from the Mount Nyiragongo volcano have rocked the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as the death toll from a recent eruption that left hundreds of families displaced rose to 32.... More
Oslo, May 25 (RHC)-- More voices are joining the chorus of international denunciation of Israeli atrocities against Palestinians, particularly in the wake of the latest bloodshed committed by Israel forces against the besieged people of Gaza. ... More
Tel Aviv, May 25 (RHC)-- Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed a veteran Mossad operative, reportedly specialized in recruiting agents to work against Iran and Hezbollah, as the new chief of the regime’s espionage agency.... More
Beijing, May 25 (RHC)-- China’s Foreign Ministry has strongly denied a Wall Street Journal report suggesting the novel coronavirus might have escaped from a laboratory. The Journal reports that three employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with COVID-like symptoms in the autumn of 2019 and were hospitalized in November of that year — before the first recorded case of COVID-19. ... More
Washington, May 25 (RHC)-- A top-secret study leaked to The New York Times by famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg reveals the U.S. military pressed then-President Dwight Eisenhower to prepare a nuclear first strike against mainland China during the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958. ... More
United Nations, May 25 (RHC)-- The world is “at war” against COVID-19, the UN chief says, calling for the application of wartime logic to the inequitable access to the weapons needed to fight the pandemic.... More
Mexico City, May 25 (RHC)-- In Mexico City, hundreds of teachers, students and parents marched Monday to protest against plans to reopen schools as early as next month. Most of Mexico’s schools have been closed since March of 2020, and while many teachers have been vaccinated, protesters are demanding vaccines for students and their family members before a return to classes.... More
Gaza City, May 25 (RHC)-- Health officials in Gaza are warning tens of thousands of Palestinians who crowded into shelters during Israel’s 11-day bombardment are at high risk of COVID-19. Only two percent of Gazans are fully vaccinated, and Israel has refused to distribute vaccines in the Palestinian territories it occupies. ... More
Moscow, May 25 (RHC)-- The downing of the Ryanair flight by Belarus is drawing comparisons to the U.S.–backed downing of a flight by European officials in 2013 carrying Bolivia’s then-President Evo Morales. ... More
Atlanta, May 25 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal court has struck down a Georgia law banning the state from doing business with anyone who supports the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. ... More
New Delhi, May 25 (RHC)-- India has crossed 300,000 coronavirus deaths, the third country after the United States and Brazil to hit the grim figure, as it battles a huge second wave of infections now affecting the poorer countryside... More
Tel Aviv, May 25 (RHC)-- Israeli businesses lost 1.2 billion shekels ($368m) during 11 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, the country’s main industrial group said on Monday. The Manufacturers’ Association of Israel, which represents some 1,500 firms and 400,000 workers, said the loss was mostly due to employees choosing to stay at home due to the nearly nonstop Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza.... More
Santiago de Chile, May 24 (RHC)-- The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) revealed in the Social Panorama of Latin America report that in 2020 the region registered the highest indicators of extreme poverty in 20 years.... More
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