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
Washington, April 5 (RHC)-- Nearly two months after the United States announced it would halt “offensive” support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, as well as “relevant” arms sales, the administration of President Joe Biden has offered little clarity on how it will define those parameters.... More
Ottawa, April 5 (RHC)-- Dozens of indigenous communities across Canada still have no access to drinking water more than a year into the coronavisus outbreak as the country’s liberal government has officially failed to deliver on its own five-year deadline to lift all drinking water advisories in First Nations reserves.... More
Amsterdam, April 5 (RHC)-- The Netherlands has stopped administering Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccinations until April 7. The Dutch health ministry said it would temporarily stop inoculations for people below the age of 60. But after talks on Saturday, health departments decided to suspend all AstraZeneca jabs to avoid waste.... More
Washington, April 5 (RHC)-- The United States has lifted sanctions imposed by former President Donald Trump on officials of the International Criminal Court who are investigating the U.S. and Israel for war crimes in Afghanistan and Palestine.... More
Bogota, April 5 (RHC)-- The Colombian Ministry of Health reported this Friday 11,449 new COVID-19 infections in the country over the past 24 hours, bringing the South American nation's total to 2 million 417,826 cases.... More
San Francisco, April 5 (RHC)-- The information appears to be several years old, but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites, and the limits to how secure that information is.... More
London, April 5 (RHC)-- Police have said that 107 people were arrested in London during Saturday’s demonstrations against government plans to increase police powers. Thousands marched in towns and cities across the country on Saturday to protest the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, defying coronavirus restrictions.... More
La Paz, April 5 (RHC)-- A precautionary measures judge ordered the preventive detention in the prison of Guayaramerín, in the Bolivian department of Beni, of two nurses who are allegedly responsible for the theft of 500 doses of vaccines against the coronavirus, which occurred in the Los Almendros health center.... More
Washington, April 5 (RHC)-- Since the deadly January 6th insurrection at the United States Capitol, former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies have pushed false and misleading accounts to downplay the event that left five dead and scores of others wounded. And, according to a new poll, his supporters appear to have listened.... More
New York, April 5 (RHC)-- In the United States, more than four million coronavirus vaccine shots were administered for the first time in a 24-hour period last Saturday. The seven-day average for vaccines is now higher than 3 million a day as more states continue to expand eligibility to anyone 16 or older. ... More
New Delhi, April 5 (RHC)-- Coronavirus cases and deaths are surging across much of the globe, including in Latin America, Europe and South Asia, with India reporting more than 100,000 daily COVID-19 cases for the first time. It’s the only country other than the United States to reach that grim milestone. ... More
Ramallah, April 5 (RHC)-- Palestinian election officials have announced that 36 candidate lists have been approved to run in legislative elections set for next month -- the first Palestinian polls in 15 years.... More
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