New Delhi, April 18 (RHC)-- India has reported yet another new record of daily coronavirus cases as hospitals in the capital, New Delhi, and other parts of the country overflow with patients and experts warn the healthcare system is teetering on the brink of collapse.... More
Guatemala City, April 18 (RHC)-- Guatemalan health authorities warned over the weekend that at least five hospitals are saturated with COVID-19 patients in critical condition, generating a situation of alarm in health services.... More
Mexico City, April 18 (RHC)-- According to the INM migrants have died from accidents, drowning or falling off a railroad while trying to reach the United States.... More
United Nations, April 18 (RHC)-- About 125 million Brazilians, out of a population of 211 million, are suffering from food insecurity. The figure of those in extreme situations, suffering from hunger, 20 million people, takes us back to the pre-2004 stage. It is the perfect breeding ground for Brazil to appear in the next United Nations Hunger Map report, after abandoning it in 2014.... More
Kingston, April 18 (RHC)-- The nations that make up the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) continue to develop aid actions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines after the eruption of La Soufriere volcano, which left material damage such as houses and water supply plants... More
Beirut, April 18 (RHC)-- Many Muslim families in Lebanon are struggling to afford iftar, the evening meal which breaks the daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan, as food prices soar amid the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.... More
Sao Paulo, April 18 (RHC)-- Brazil’s government wants billions of dollars upfront from the United States and other wealthy nations to protect its Amazon rainforest, a crucial natural bulwark in the fight against climate change.... More
Guatemala City, April 18 (RHC)-- The water from the late November storms had not yet begun to subside in the rural village of Campur when Michelle’s husband, Byron, decided to leave for the United States.... More
Caracas, April 18 (RHC)-- On a day like today, but in 2008, April 17 was declared as the "Day of the Union of South American Nations," a mechanism for the integration of South American countries, promoted by Commander Hugo Chávez.... More
Moscow, April 18 (RHC)-- U.S. National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden’s NFT sold for about $5.4 million, or 2,224 ETH. The NFT is of an artwork that shows an image of Snowden’s face made from pages of a U.S. appeals court decision that ruled the mass surveillance program Snowden exposed had violated U.S. law. The image is called “Stay Free.”... More
New York, April 18 (RHC)-- Human Rights Watch has decried the United States for the administration of President Joe Biden ‘backing out of its pledge’ and resuming arms sales to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which is complicit in operations in Yemen that ‘amount to war crimes.’... More
Washington, April 18 (RHC)-- Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo violated federal ethics rules governing the use of taxpayer-funded resources when he, and his wife, asked State Department employees to carry out personal tasks more than 100 times, a government watchdog said in a report.... More
Port Moresby, April 18 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has expressed concern about a “sharp increase” of COVID-19 cases in Papua New Guinea warning the outbreak was at a critical stage and could fuel a much larger epidemic.... More
Gaza City, April 18 (RHC)-- The Israeli military has carried out air attacks against what it says were targets in the Gaza Strip following a rocket attack from the Palestinian enclave, the second such exchange in recent days.... More
Ramallah, April 18 (RHC)-- Mansour al-Shahatit was unable to recognize his mother and brothers following his release from an Israeli prison after 17 years. He was in a deplorable state after being freed on April 8, suffering from memory loss as a result of torture and solitary confinement for many years in Israeli jails.... More
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