Geneva, March 30 (RHC)-- A Geneva-based rights group has warned about the deadly prison conditions faced by scores of Palestinians and Jordanians, who are being kept in Saudi Arabia for assisting Palestinian resistance groups.... More
Gaza City, March 30 (RHC)-- Local authorities in the blockaded Gaza Strip have imposed a night time lock-down to help combat the spread of coronavirus.... More
London, March 29 (RHC)-- Pope Francis has conveyed a personal message to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who remains incarcerated in a British maximum security prison battling possible extradition to the United States, the publisher’s partner has said.... More
Brasilia, March 29 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has replaced six ministers in a sweeping cabinet reshuffle that comes as the far-right leader faces mounting pressure to account for his government’s handling of a surging COVID-19 pandemic.... More
Bogota, March 29 (RHC)-- Three people were killed on Sunday in the municipality of Jamundí, located in the Valle del Cauca department, in southwestern Colombia, reported the Institute for Development and Peace Studies (Indepaz).... More
Geneva, March 29 (RHC)-- A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press.... More
Beijing, March 29 (RHC)-- Beijing says the United States and some European countries “don't really care about Muslims,” but they are using the issue of Uighur Muslims to sow discord between China and the Muslim world.... More
Washington, March 29 (RHC)-- A member of former U.S. president Donald Trump’s coronavirus task force says the COVID-19 death toll in the United States would have been substantially lower if the Trump administration had responded more effectively.... More
St. Paul, March 29 (RHC)-- The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously overturned a man’s rape conviction, ruling he cannot be found guilty because the woman who accused him had voluntarily consumed alcohol before the rape.... More
El Paso, March 29 (RHC)-- U.S. Federal officials revealed a 9-year-old girl from Mexico drowned earlier this month as she attempted to cross the Rio Grande river into the United States.... More
Beijing, March 29 (RHC)-- Iran and China have signed an economic and security cooperation deal that will see China invest $400 billion in Iran over the next quarter-century in exchange for regular deliveries of oil.... More
Geneva, March 29 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization warns COVID-19 cases are on the rise in at least 12 African nations and that a “third wave” could overwhelm already vulnerable health systems. ... More
Santiago de Chile, March 29 (RHC)-- Chile has imposed strict new lockdowns affecting 80% of the population amid a major wave of cases, despite Chile having one the world’s highest rates of vaccination. Health experts say the surge can be attributed to a lack of adherence to mitigation efforts, and the spread of new variants.... More
Tegucigalpa, March 29 (RHC)-- The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Honduras has concluded the scrutiny of the primary and internal elections of three political parties of the Central American nation, held last March 14th.... More
Minneapolis, March 29 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Minneapolis, opening statements began Monday in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd last May by kneeling on his neck for over nine minutes. ... More
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