Mexico City, May 4 (RHC)-- A Mexico City metro train overpass collapsed onto a road on Monday night, killing at least 23 people, including children, authorities said. Nearly 100 more were reportedly injured.... More
San Jose Del Guaviare, May 4 (RHC)-- Violent protests continue around Colombia as unions make more demands of the right-wing government of President Ivan Duque following his withdrawal of a proposed tax reform that sparked widespread public anger.... More
Washington, May 4 (RHC)-- The combined net worth of the top 100 ultra-rich people in the United States has skyrocketed by $195 billion since Biden took office, according to Bloomberg’s calculations. From his election to his inauguration, they added $267 billion to their fortunes, bringing their total gain to $461 billion since November 4th. ... More
Caracas, May 3 (RHC)-- Venezuela's Minister of Health, Dr. Carlos Alvarado, reports that another 50,000 doses of the Sputnik V anti-COVID vaccine arrived on Monday in the South American nation from Russia.... More
Bogota, May 3 (RHC)-- Community leader Juan David García Naranjo, from the municipality of San Luis, Antioquia, in northern Colombia, and who had dedicated his life to social service, was murdered on Sunday afternoon, in an urban area of that municipality.... More
Buenos Aires, May 3 (RHC)-- Argentina put into effect this Monday a new set of measures to curb the second wave of COVID-19 and avoid the collapse of its healthcare system, which were announced by President Alberto Fernandez last April 16.... More
Kinshasa, May 3 (RHC)-- The Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that infected 12 people in the eastern province of North Kivu and killed six of them.... More
Baghdad, May 3 (RHC)-- Two rockets have targeted a base at Iraq’s Baghdad airport housing US-led coalition troops in the second such attack in 10 days. One of the projectiles was intercepted by the C-RAM counter rocket, artillery and mortar system deployed to protect American forces in Iraq, a security source told AFP news agency. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.... More
Tripoli, May 3 (RHC)-- At least 11 people drowned when a rubber dinghy carrying two dozen Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya, the UN migration agency said. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the tragedy took place on Sunday near the western town of Zawiya. The Libyan coastguard saved the lives of 12 migrants, it said in a Twitter post.... More
Gaza City, May 3 (RHC)-- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has warned Israel against evicting Palestinians in East Jerusalem al-Quds, as the Tel Aviv regime continues with its home demolition and land expropriation policies in the occupied territories.... More
San Salvador, May 3 (RHC)-- Expert testimony delivered in El Salvador last week has revealed significant new details about what many consider to be the most brutal massacre of the country’s 12-year civil war decades ago.... More
New Delhi, May 3 (RHC)-- Sunday was the fourth straight day India recorded more than 3,000 deaths as the second wave of the pandemic carries on unabated and keeps setting grim new records. Altogether 215,542 people have died from COVID-19 in the country.... More
Columbus, May 3 (RHC)-- In Columbus, Ohio, mourners gathered over the weekend at the funeral of Ma’Khia Bryant, the 16-year-old Black girl who was killed last month by police officers outside her foster home. ... More
Washington, May 3 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the Joe Biden administration has revealed portions of former President Donald Trump’s 2017 secret order rolling back limits on drone strikes and commando raids outside of U.S. combat zones. ... More
Brasilia, May 3 (RHC)- Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will hold a series of meetings with party leaders of different political tendencies, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed more than 400,000 lives in Brazil.... More
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