Ramallah, April 7 (RHC)-- A pro-Palestinian boycott campaign targeting the United Arab Emirates for normalization of relations with Israel is starting to gather momentum around the world. The campaign was originally launched last December, advising a boycott of Emirati products in protest at the normalization that took place four months ago. Back then, the initiative announced the hashtag #Boycott Emirati Products as its rallying point.... More
Jerusalem, April 7 (RHC)-- Israeli prosecutors accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of treating favours as “currency” on Monday at the opening of a corruption trial which, along with an inconclusive election, has clouded his prospects of remaining in office.... More
London, April 7 (RHC)-- People in England will soon have access to a COVID-19 test twice a week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said, as the country looks ahead to post-pandemic life. Johnson said that the program would break the chain of transmissions and help detect asymptomatic cases, which are believed to account for one in three of all infections.... More
Caracas, April 6 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government says that it will ask the United Nations for technical assistance to clear the areas planted with landmines on the border with Colombia.... More
Port-au-Prince, April 6 (RHC)-- Public health agencies are warning Haiti has yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine for its 11 million people, with further delays now likely to postpone a scheduled first shipment of vaccines due to arrive in May. ... More
Tel Aviv, April 6 (RHC)-- Israel’s president says no party leader has enough support to form a governing majority but handed the job to embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid his corruption trial.... More
New York, April 6 (RHC)-- Calling Israel a "banana republic," Pfizer has frozen further deliveries of the Covid-19 vaccine until it gets paid for the last 2.5 million doses, Israeli media reported. The blow comes amid political infighting in Tel Aviv.... More
Beijing, April 6 (RHC)-- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned that Beijing will not accept unilateral demands from Washington, urging the United States to truly respect China's core interests.... More
Berlin, April 6 (RHC)-- The ongoing vaccination campaign in Germany will not be enough to stop the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Health Minister Jens Spahn has warned, urging the regions to return to lockdown measures if necessary.... More
Brasilia, April 6 (RHC)-- The pollster PoderData conducted a study points out that 44 percent of Brazilians consider that the health and humanitarian crisis generated by Covid-19, is the fault of President Jair Bolsonaro.... More
Caracas, April 6 (RHC)-- The Sectoral Vice President for Sovereignty, Security and Peace and Minister of Defense of Venezuela, General in Chief Vladimir Padrino López, affirmed that Colombia seeks to install bases for drug trafficking in Venezuelan territory in order to destabilize the nation with violent armed groups and provoke a civil war.... More
Gaza City, April 6 (RHC)-- Palestinian children continue to suffer due to Israel’s inhumane practices as they mark Palestinian Children's Day.... More
Bogota, April 5 (RHC)-- The Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz) denounced this Sunday the murder of an indigenous leader in the municipality of Caloto, located in the Colombian department of Cauca.... More
Santiago de Chile, April 5 (RHC)-- Amid a spike in coronavirus infections, Chile will close its borders as of April 5 as part of measures to try to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Chilean authorities decreed the cessation of international flights and operations of the Arturo Merino international airport in the Chilean capital, which was practically the only way in and out of the country.... More
Sonsonate, April 5 (RHC)-- A Salvadoran woman who died at the hands of Mexican police has been buried in the southwest of El Salvador, in the presence of family and close friends. About 50 of Victoria Esperanza Salazar’s friends and relatives, many wearing floral arrangements, walked through the La Generosa cemetery in colonial Sonsonate, 40 miles (65 kilometres) west of the capital, San Salvador, to her final resting place on Sunday.A Salvadoran woman who died at the hands of Mexican police has been buried in the southwest of El Salvador, in the presence of family and close friends. ... More
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