Sarajevo, March 17 (RHC)-- Alarm is growing in Bosnia over the escalating coronavirus crisis in the Sarajevo canton, which has recorded the highest rate of cases and deaths in the Western Balkans. In the two weeks to March 14, the canton of Bosnia’s capital registered 1,763 cases and 31.5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, according to data by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.... More
London, March 17 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom says it plans to invest one billion pounds ($1.39 billion) to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals as part of wider “green revolution” designed to create thousands of jobs and meet climate targets.... More
Atlanta, March 17 (RHC)-- At least eight people, most of them Asian women, were killed in shootings at three different spas in the U.S. state of Georgia on Tuesday, with a 21-year-old white man in custody on suspicion of staging all three attacks, police said.... More
Paris, March 17 (RHC)-- France’s health ministry has warned that a new variant of COVID-19 found in the country’s north may evade conventional PCR testing, but initial analysis suggests it is not more contagious or deadly.... More
Syrian media say the country’s air defenses have shot down a number of Israeli missiles near the capital, Damascus. Syria's official news agency SANA, citing a military source, announced late on Tuesday: “The Israeli enemy perpetrated a missile aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights on some targets on the outskirts of Damascus.”... More
La Paz, March 17 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through an official statement, has rejected the statements of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, issued by him in defense of the former de facto president, Jeanine Áñez.... More
United Nations, March 17 (RHC)-- The coronavirus pandemic may have indirectly contributed to around 228,000 additional child deaths in 2020, 11,000 maternal fatalities and 3.5 million unwanted pregnancies in South Asia, the United Nations has said in a report.... More
Santiago de Chile, March 17 (RHC)-- Chile has been battling the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which has turned out to be far more aggressive than the first one, despite the Latin American nation vaccinating more than one-third of its population.... More
Brasilia, March 17 (RHC)-- Brazil’s next health minister – the country’s fourth since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic – has said he intends to continue the work of his predecessor in implementing far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies.... More
Berlin, March 17 (RHC)-- A health official at Germany’s Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases (RKI) has warned the country is experiencing an undisputed third wave of COVID, as eased restrictions have sped up the “exponential growth” of cases.... More
Tegucigalpa, March 17 (RHC)-- A barrage of criticism is being unleashed against the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras due to the lack of a quick count, more than 24 hours before the closing of the polls in the local process for parties to choose their candidates for next November's elections.... More
Geneva, March 17 (RHC)-- The COVID-19 lockdowns worldwide last year reduced average levels of so-called PM2.5 pollution across the world but only 24 of 106 countries monitored met World Health Organization (WHO) safety guidelines, according to a report based on the world’s largest database of ground-level air pollution measurements.... More
United Nations, March 17 (RHC)-- The Arns Commission and Conectas Human Rights filed a complaint at the United Nations against President Jair Bolsonaro for his irresponsible management of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed almost 280,000 deaths in Brazil to date.... More
Moscow, March 17 (RHC)-- Russia has identified two cases of the new variant of the coronavirus first detected in South Africa, its health regulator said in a statement on Tuesday. The variant was first identified in South Africa in December, where it now predominates. It has also been detected now in more than 40 countries, according to the World Health Organization... More
La Paz, March 17 (RHC)-- Faced with persistent interference in Bolivia's internal affairs, the government announced that it will take legal action against Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS). ... More
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