New York, March 18 (RHC)-- White supremacist propaganda reached alarming levels across the US in 2020, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.... More
London, March 18 (RHC)-- English football did not do enough to protect children from pedophile coaches in an “institutional failure” by the game’s governing body, an inquiry into sexual abuse up from 1970 to 2005 has found.... More
Ramallah, March 18 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday received the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX sharing initiative, in a boost to inoculations in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip which lag far behind Israel’s campaign.... More
New York, March 18 (RHC)-- A brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez should be sentenced to life in prison for running a “state-sponsored drug trafficking conspiracy” with the nation’s current leader, U.S. federal prosecutors say in documents filed before a sentencing hearing scheduled next week.... More
New York, March 18 (RHC)-- In New York City, taxi drivers have led daily protests for over a week against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan he claims will offer relief to heavily indebted taxi medallion owners, who have suffered even more economic loss during the pandemic.... More
New York, March 18 (RHC)-- In New York, over 3,000 research and teaching assistants at Columbia University have gone on strike after two years of unsuccessful negotiations with the prestigious college over their union’s first contract. ... More
Washington, March 18 (RHC)-- U.S. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is calling on the Justice Department to probe the FBI’s 2018 background check of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which Senator Whitehouse says was “politically constrained and perhaps fake.” ... More
Brasilia, March 18 (RHC)-- Brazil has reported a single-day record of 90,303 new cases of COVID-19, as the South American nation continues to grapple with mounting coronavirus infections and deaths. The health ministry said on Wednesday that 2,648 additional deaths were recorded over the previous 24-hour period, bringing the country’s total to over 282,000 deaths – second only to the United States.... More
Moscow, March 18 (RHC)-- Russia has called its ambassador to the U.S. to come back home for consultations on the future of Moscow-Washington relations after U.S. President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “a killer.”... More
Mexico City, March 18 (RHC)-- El Grupo de Puebla (The Puebla Group) -- made up of presidents, former presidents and progressive leaders of Latin America -- warned of insufficient moral authority in the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, to criticize Bolivia for arresting leaders of a coup d'état.... More
Brasilia, March 17 (RHC)-- More than half of Brazilians think that President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic is bad or very bad. According to the new poll published Tuesday by the Datafolha Institute 54 percent of respondents rated Bolsonaro's performance in handling the crisis caused by the new coronavirus poorly. In the previous poll, conducted in January, the negative opinion was 48 percent.... More
Managua, March 17 (RHC)-- Nicaragua has received a donation of 135 thousand doses of vaccines against Covid-19 from AstraZeneca through the international mechanism Covax.... More
United Nations, March 17 (RHC)-- United Nations experts have assessed that the arms embargo imposed on Libya by the world body continues to be violated on a regular basis and remains "totally ineffective." An international arms ban was imposed on Libya in 2011 to prevent the warring parties in the oil-rich North African country from continuing fighting.... More
Paris, March 17 (RHC)-- Protesters denounced a controversial bill aimed at protecting the identity of police officers as they rallied outside the French Senate building in Paris on Tuesday. The government has affirmed its support for the legislation.... More
Ramallah, March 17 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates says the Tel Aviv regime is transforming towns and cities across the occupied West Bank into isolated islands scattered among Israeli settlements.... More
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