Gaza City, April 16 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime’s military conducts a number of aerial and ground attacks against two locations in the besieged Gaza Strip, calling the assaults a response to an alleged rocket fire.... More
Brasilia, April 15 (RHC)-- The Brazilian Senate has launched an inquiry into President Jair Bolsonaro’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, widely condemned by medical experts as one of the world’s worst. The country’s death toll from the disease, the second-highest after the United States, surpassed 360,000 on Wednesday, as the seven-day average of daily deaths remains above 3,000. The National Council of Health Secretaries reported 3,808 deaths and 82,186 new cases on Tuesday.... More
Brasilia, April 15 (RHC)-- The Brazilian Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday that during the last 24 hours 3,459 deaths were registered by COVID-19, bringing the South American country's total number of deaths from the viral disease to 361,884.... More
New Delhi, April 15 (RHC)-- India has reported a record 200,739 COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry, as Delhi government announces weekend lockdowns in the capital and hospitals treating patients report severe shortages of beds and oxygen supplies.... More
Seattle, April 15 (RHC)-- Amazon has accused Parler, the social network known as a conservative alternative to Twitter, of trying to conceal its ownership amid a legal dispute between Amazon and Parler stemming from the US Capitol riots.... More
Sao Paulo, April 15 (RHC)-- The full Brazilian Federal Court of Auditors (TCU) acquitted on Wednesday former President Dilma Rousseff of losses in the purchase by state-owned Petrobras of a U.S. refinery in Pasadena.... More
United Nations, April 15 (RHC)-- Nearly half the women and adolescent girls in developing countries are denied the right to decide whether or not to have sex with their partners, use contraception, or seek healthcare, according to a new report by the United Nations.... More
Tegucigalpa, April 15 (RHC)-- During a press conference in Tegucigalpa, members of the Honduran National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that Xiomara Castro gained enough votes to be the presidential candidate of the Libre Party in the elections scheduled for November 28th.... More
Washington, April 15 (RHC)-- Iman Saleh has not eaten anything in 17 days. The 26-year-old Yemeni American and her younger sister, Muna, went to Washington, DC late last month from the U.S. state of Michigan to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, where a war has raged for six years.... More
Buenos Aires, April 15 (RHC)-- Argentina has lashed out at Britain over its plan to hold military exercises and missile tests in the occupied Malvinas Islands, which the British call Falkland Islands, saying they are part of a "pattern" of "hostile acts" and an "unjustified show of force."... More
United Nations, April 15 (RHC)--United Nations human rights experts have warned that violence, including assaults and property destruction, by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank has increased substantially in recent months.... More
Cairo, April 15 (RHC)-- The African Union (AU) has announced the launch of a partnership to manufacture vaccines at five research centres to be built on the continent within the next 15 years.... More
New York, April 15 (RHC)-- Global equity markets rose to a fresh record high on Wednesday as bond yields eased after data showed inflation in the United States was not rising wildly. Most Asia-Pacific share indexes followed Wall Street higher, while benchmark U.S. Treasury bond yields continued their decline, marking a fresh three-week low.... More
London, April 15 (RHC)-- Following the announcement by the U.S. government that it is pulling its forces out of Afghanistan in just under six months, the UK has strongly signaled that it will follow the same timetable.... More
Minneapolis, April 15 (RHC)-- Protesters in the U.S. city of Minneapolis have defied a curfew, taking to the streets for the fourth night in a row over the shooting death of another African-American man by the police.... More
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