United Nations, April 18 (RHC)-- The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) convened a special high-level meeting on “A Vaccine for All” on Friday, April 16th. The ECOSOC Special Meeting took place on a virtual platform and was transmitted around the world.... More
Lima, April 17 (RHC)-- The winner of last Sunday's elections in Peru, the candidate of Peru Libre (PL), Pedro Castillo, pulled slightly more than 5 percentage points ahead of the candidate of Popular Force, Keiko Fujimori, according to the official final result.... More
Caracas, April 17 (RHC)-- Venezuela's president warned about the "geopolitical war" over the monopolization of anti-coronavirus vaccines and denounced the lack of access of the poor to the doses.... More
Guatemala City, April 17 (RHC)-- The president of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, decreed on Friday a state of prevention throughout the country due to the increase of infections and deaths from coronavirus in recent weeks.... More
New Delhi, April 17 (RHC)-- New Delhi went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as India faces a ferocious new coronavirus wave, with daily cases hitting another record increase of 234,692 nationwide and families clamouring for drugs and hospital beds. The health ministry said the latest number is the eighth record high in the last nine days.... More
Washington, April 17 (RHC)-- A founding member of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group on Friday became the first person to plead guilty to taking part in the US Capitol riot, signaling a new stage in the investigation of the deadly January 6 assault on the seat of American democracy.... More
Lynchburg, April 17 (RHC)-- Liberty University has sued its former president Jerry Falwell Jr, a once influential figure among US evangelical Christians, saying he undermined its moral standards by concealing his wife’s affair with a pool attendant who attempted to extort them.... More
Caracas, April 17 (RHC)-- The Samuel Robinson Institute of Venezuela pointed out this Friday in a report that the current capitalist world order has favored the "take-off of the pandemic" during this 2021, "marked by the conflict around the unequal and restrictive distribution of vaccines against COVID-19"... More
Santiago de Chile, April 17 (RHC)-- A report by the local Ministry of Health on the effectiveness of the immunization with the vaccine of the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, the most used in the South American country regarding the massive vaccination campaign against the virus causing COVID-19.... More
Tunis, April 17 (RHC)-- At least 21 people have died after their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa. “The boat sank during a trip that started late on Thursday from Sfax… so far, the coastguard has recovered 21 bodies and the search is still continuing,” Mouard Mechri, director of Tunisia’s civil protection service, told Reuters news agency on Friday.... More
Jerusalem, April 17 (RHC)-- Thousands of Palestinians streamed to Al-Aqsa mosque in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the largest such gathering since the coronavirus pandemic.... More
Moscow, April 17 (RHC)-- The Moscow bureau of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has called on Europe’s top human rights court to order Russian authorities against enforcing fines that could cost the broadcaster millions of dollars.... More
Brasilia, April 17 (RHC)-- Brazilian authorities have asked women to “delay pregnancy” until the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, citing the threat of a coronavirus variant plaguing the country. Between new variants and vaccine risks, now is not a good time to be expecting, Brazilian officials said.... More
Seoul, April 16 (RHC)-- The Japanese government announced this week that more than a million tons of contaminated water generated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster would be discharged into the Pacific Ocean over a span of decades, beginning in two years. Regional capitals were quick to respond. ... More
Rome, April 16 (RHC)-- Rome's cemeteries are running out of space to store coffins ahead of funerals as a back-log in services due to COVID-19 restrictions has slowed down the pace for burials. In a video obtained by Reuters on Friday, large refrigerated containers that cemetery workers said were holding dead bodies were seen outside the Prima Porta cemetery in the capital.... More
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