New York, April 1 (RHC)-- An area of pristine rainforest the size of the Netherlands was burned or hacked down last year, as the destruction of the planet’s tropical forests accelerated despite a global economic slowdown, according to new research.... More
Tel Aviv, April 1 (RHC)-- Israel has been boasting that its rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine has been the most successful in the world and that it has inoculated a higher percentage of its population than any other nation.... More
Chicago, April 1 (RHC)-- According to reports from the United States, data from the latest census has found that child hunger has soared 50% since the pandemic hit one year ago. ... More
New Delhi, April 1 (RHC)-- The situation with the COVID-19 pandemic in India is going “from bad to worse,” a senior government official has said. “We are facing an increasingly severe and intense situation, more so surely in some districts. But the whole country is potentially at risk,” Vinod K Paul, chairman of the government’s expert panel on vaccine administration said at the weekly health ministry briefing.... More
Washington, April 1 (RHC)-- On the 57th anniversary of the military coup in Brazil, the National Security Archive of the United States has published declassified documentation on the efforts of the regime that emerged from that military coup to subvert democracy and support the dictatorship in Chile in 1973.... More
Brasilia, April 1 (RHC)-- Brazil is facing a mounting public health and political crisis. On Tuesday, Brazil recorded nearly 3,800 new COVID-19 deaths — its highest daily death toll yet. ... More
Washington, April 1 (RHC)-- The U.S. COVID-19 death toll has topped 550,000 -- by far the highest in the world, and the true figure is likely even higher. A new study in the American Journal of Public Health suggests Florida has undercounted the number of COVID deaths by thousands. ... More
La Paz, March 31 (RHC)-- The Departmental Health Service (Sedes) of Santa Cruz announced Wednesday that the border with Brazil will be closed for seven days, in coordination with health authorities, due to the increase of cases with the Brazilian variant of COVID-19.... More
Brasilia, March 31 (RHC)-- Brazil's new Minister of Defense, Walter Braga Netto, recently appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro, recalled that the events that led to the 1964 coup d'état, whose anniversary falls on Wednesday, "must be understood and celebrated" with historical context.... More
Berlin, March 31 (RHC)-- Berlin will require residents to show that they have tested negative for COVID-19 before being allowed in certain shops and cultural institutions, as part of new restrictions aimed at containing the spread of the virus.... More
Washington, March 31 (RHC)-- The head of the 190-nation International Monetary Fund says prospects for global growth have brightened since January, helped by a $1.9 trillion United States rescue package. But she warns that uneven progress in fighting the coronavirus pandemic could jeopardize economic gains.... More
Kabul, March 31 (RHC)-- Gunmen have killed three female polio vaccination health workers in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, two government sources have told the Reuters news agency. It was not immediately clear who carried out the two separate shootings, a provincial government official said on Tuesday. A central government source confirmed the shootings, Reuters said.... More
Rio de Janeiro, March 31 (RHC)-- Political, social and student sectors in Brazil are holding mobilizations this Wednesday in the country's main cities to demand the resignation of President Jair Bolsonaro as part of the commemorations of the 57th anniversary of the 1964 military coup.... More
San Pedro Sula, March 31 (RHC)-- The caravan of migrants that departed on Tuesday from the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula heading to the United States, has been broken up due to police blockades on the border with Guatemala.... More
Mexico City, March 31 (RHC)-- The death of Victoria Esperanza Salazar -- a Salvadoran migrant who died in Mexico after a policewoman put her knee on her back for several minutes -- continued to evoke outrage on Tuesday, after additional details of her life and how she died surfaced.... More
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