New York, March 10 (RHC)-- Roughly four in 10 Americans say they’re still feeling the financial impact of the loss of a job or income within their household as the economic recovery remains uneven one year into the coronavirus pandemic.... More
Geneva, March 10 (RHC)-- One in three women worldwide have been subject to sexual or physical violence during their lifetime, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The Geneva-based UN agency released the study on Tuesday, urging governments to prevent violence, improve services for victims, and tackle economic inequalities that often leave women and girls trapped in abusive relationships.... More
Asunción, March 10 (RHC)-- The Paraguayan Ministry of Health has warned that the health system could suffer a collapse due to the increase of cases and suspects with COVID-19, declaring the "red alarm" throughout the national territory.... More
Sao Paulo, March 10 (RHC)-- The former president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that he is aware of the great injustice that was committed against him, but the suffering that this may have caused him is minimal compared to that of his poor compatriots who are currently plagued by pandemics, hunger and unemployment.... More
Caracas, March 10 (RHC)-- President Nicolás Maduro, during the balance day of the Bolivarian Shield Military Exercises Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez Frías 2021, denounced on Tuesday the intervention of the Colombian government in plans of violence against Venezuela.... More
Mexico City, March 10 (RHC)-- Massive women-led marches were held around the world Monday to commemorate International Women’s Day. ... More
United Nations, March 9 (RHC)-- UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory Lynn Hastings says the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the Palestinian women have worsened amid Israeli violence across the occupied lands.... More
Brasilia, March 9 (RHC)-- Human activity has degraded or destroyed roughly two-thirds of the world’s original tropical rainforest cover, new data reveals, raising alarm that a key natural buffer against climate change is quickly vanishing.... More
Bata, March 9 (RHC)-- The death toll from a series of explosions at a military base in Equatorial Guinea’s main city of Bata has jumped to 98, according to officials. Some 615 people were wounded in Sunday’s blasts, which started with a fire at the Nkoantoma Military Base in the coastal city of Bata.... More
Brasilia, March 8 (RHC)-- The judge of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, Edson Fachin, annulled this Monday all sentences against the nation's former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, for the Lava Jato case, allowing him to participate in the presidential elections in 2022.... More
Minneapolis, March 9 (RHC)-- In Minnesota, jury selection in the murder trial of the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd was called off Monday after an appeals court ordered the trial judge to consider reinstating a third-degree murder charge. ... More
Guatemala City, March 8 (RHC)-- Groups of demonstrators, mostly women from diverse social sectors, protested in Guatemala City to demand an end to gender violence and demand justice for women who have been murdered in that Central American nation.... More
Ramallah, March 8 (RHC)-- Spiraling levels of crime and violence in Palestinain communities as well as the Israeli police’s inaction to curb violence has outraged Palestinian citizens of Israel, prompting tens of thousands of them to express their resentment by staging a mass demonstration.... More
Sanaa, March 8 (RHC)-- The Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen’s Houthi movement has said it conducted air raids on Houthi military targets in Sanaa and other regions after the group launched armed drones towards Saudi Arabia.... More
Tel Aviv, March 8 (RHC)-- The leader of an Israeli political party has come under harsh criticism after voicing support for the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s decision to open an investigation into war crimes perpetrated by the Tel Aviv regime’s forces in the occupied Palestinian territories.... More
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