Paris, April 12 (RHC)-- A bid by the French Senate to ban girls under 18 from wearing the hijab in public has drawn condemnation, with the hashtag #HandsOffMyHijab circulating widely on social media.... More
Minneapolis, April 12 (RHC)-- Protests have broken out in the U.S. city of Minneapolis after a policeman fatally shot a young Black man near where George Floyd was killed last year. Hundreds of people, some visibly upset and one carrying a sign demanding “Justice for George Floyd,” confronted police in riot gear on Sunday night, hours after the officer shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright in his car in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center.... More
Madrid, April 12 (RHC)-- At least 34 migrants drowned on Monday after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said, the second such accident in just over a month.... More
Tehran, April 12 (RHC)-- Iran says it will “take revenge” for what it called “nuclear terrorism” after an attack triggered a blackout at the Natanz nuclear facility Sunday. ... More
Dallas, April 12 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a Texas man has been charged with plotting to blow up an Amazon data center in Virginia. Seth Aaron Pendley said he was aiming to destroy web servers used by federal intelligence agencies. ... More
New York, April 12 (RHC)-- Former top U.S. Justice Department official and anti-imperialist activist Ramsey Clark has died at the age of 93. ... More
Lima, April 12 (RHC)-- The candidate of the Peru Libre party, Pedro Castillo, leads the elections held on Sunday in the South American country, however, his percentage of votes obtained is insufficient to win the presidency in the first electoral round.... More
La Paz, April 12 (RHC)-- Opposition candidates are ahead of the candidates of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in the second round elections held on Sunday, in which Bolivians elected the governors of the departments of La Paz, Chuquisaca, Tarija and Pando.... More
La Paz, April 12 (RHC)-- Former Bolivian President Evo Morales transmitted on Sunday on his FaceBook page a documentary that unveils details of the coup against him in November 2019, which led to his exile, first in Mexico and then in Argentina.... More
Berlin, April 12 (RHC)-- Germany’s leading health institution has warned of a “very, very serious” situation as the country grapples with an accelerated third wave of coronavirus cases and a sluggish vaccination rollout.... More
Lima, April 12 (RHC)-- The representative of the Ombudsman in the northern Peruvian area of Piura, Cesar Orrego, denounced that 13 patients with COVID-19 lost their lives this week at the Hospital II of Essalud Talara, because the isotank that supplies them with hospital oxygen had run out.... More
United Nations, April 12 (RHC)-- As many as 60 countries, including some of the world’s poorest, might be stalled at the first shots of their coronavirus vaccinations because nearly all deliveries through the global program intended to help them are blocked until as late as June.... More
San Diego, April 12 (RHC)-- More than 172,000 migrants were apprehended along the United States’ southern border with Mexico during the month of March, according to official records, a 71 percent increase from February.... More
New York, April 12 (RHC)-- Low-income Americans bore the brunt of job losses when the pandemic arrived. Now they’re getting hit hardest by price increases as the economy recovers. The headline consumer inflation rate in the U.S. remains subdued, at 1.7% – but it masks large differences in what people actually buy.... More
Paris, April 12 (RHC)-- A loss of 26 million jobs has been registered for the Latin American and Caribbean region as a consequence of the economic impact generated by COVID-19. According to a report from the International Labor Organization, the ILO, as many of 25 million 500 thousand jobs have been lost over the past year.... More
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