Gaza City, March 22 (RHC)-- A new study shows that Israel has vastly restricted access of Palestinians in Gaza to water resources, saying that only four percent of households in Gaza have access to safe water.... More


Caracas, March 22 (RHC)-- A huge explosion has rocked a major gas pipeline in Venezuela, in what authorities believe to have been a terrorist attack.  The blast occurred at a pipeline belonging to oil and gas company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), in the state of Monagas' city of El Tejero, on Saturday.... More


Sao Paulo, March 21 (RHC)-- In the midst of the worst scenario of the COVID pandemic in Brazil with the increase of cases and daily deaths, the lack of oxygen to treat patients with the coronavirus is added to the health care collapse.... More


La Paz, March 21 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Attorney General of the State, Juan Lanchipa Ponce, before the Commission of Plural Justice, Public Ministry and Legal Defense of the State of the Chamber of Deputies, reported that all those killed in the massacres of Senkata and Sacaba -- committed by the de facto government of Jeanine Áñez -- died of bullet impacts.... More


Atlanta, March 21 (RHC)-- Hundreds of people have demonstrated outside the Georgia state capitol building to demand justice for the victims of fatal shootings in the Atlanta area last week, as well as an end to anti-Asian racism and misogyny.... More


Brasilia, March 21 (RHC)-- Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has asked the country’s Supreme Court to reverse coronavirus restrictions imposed by several federal states, despite infection numbers reaching new heights.... More


Jerusalem, March 21 (RHC)-- Thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, just days before the country’s fourth general election in less than two years.... More


United Nations, March 21 (RHC)-- Israel demolished or seized 26 structures belonging to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds in only two weeks, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says.... More


Paris, March 21 (RHC)-- Poland, France and Ukraine have introduced partial lockdowns as they battle surging coronavirus infections.  Residents in Poland, parts of France, including Paris and the Ukrainian capital Kiev faced new restrictions on Saturday, with most shops shut and people urged to work from home.... More


Brasilia, March 21 (RHC)-- The Public Ministry of Brazil requested to the Court of Auditors of the Union (TCU) the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro by the vice president, Hamilton Mourão, during the management of the pandemic.... More


Washington, March 20 (RHC)-- The World Bank has announced financing for Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19.... More


New Delhi, March 20 (RHC)-- A year into the pandemic, the numbers of those in the middle class in India has shrunk to 66 million, down a third from a pre-pandemic estimate of 99 million.  “India is estimated to have seen a greater decrease in the middle class and a much sharper rise in poverty than China in the COVID-19 downturn,” the Pew Research Centre said, citing the World Bank’s forecasts of economic growth.... More


Washington, March 20 (RHC)-- Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin has threatened North Korea with a war after Pyongyang denounced the resumption of drills between the U.S. and South Korea.  "Our force remains ready to ‘fight tonight,’ and we continue to make progress toward the eventual transition of wartime Operational Control to a [South Korea]-commanded, future Combined Forces Command,” Austin said at a press conference.... More


Paris, March 20 (RHC)-- France has imposed a month-long lockdown on Paris and parts of the north amid a rise in the number of coronavirus variant cases.... More


Damascus, March 20 (RHC)-- Syria's oil minister says the U.S. and its allied Takfiri terrorist groups are plundering oil resources in the war-stricken Arab country, revealing that Washington controls 90 percent of crude reserves in oil-rich northeastern Syria.... More


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