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
Tehran, April 5 (RHC)-- Iran’s Parliament speaker says the recent strategic cooperation agreement signed between the Islamic Republic and China is a major warning to the United States that international relations will no longer be in its favor.... More
Quito, April 5 (RHC)-- Less than one week before the elections for a new president in Ecuador -- on Sunday April 11th -- presidential candidates Andres Arauz and Guillermo Lasso have five days until the end of their presidential campaigns, this time with restrictive measures by COVID-19.... More
Brasilia, April 5 (RHC)-- Brazil exceeded 330,000 deaths and is approaching 13 million coronavirus infections since the arrival of COVID-19 to the South American country. Data from the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass) show that 1,987 deaths and 43,515 infections were registered in the last 24 hours.... More
Jakarta, April 5 (RHC)-- At least 44 people have been killed after flash floods and landslides swept an island in Indonesia’s easternmost province on Sunday morning. Hours before people woke up to celebrate Easter Sunday, torrential rain resulted in flash floods in the Catholic-majority Flores Island.... More
Damascus, April 5 (RHC)-- Syria says Washington's latest annual report on human rights around the world is based on “delusions and lies” and represents the “height of hypocrisy” as Washington itself is the largest rights violator both inside and outside its borders.... More
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