Caracas, March 18 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government has added information in the referral it submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2020, against the authorities of the United States for crimes against humanity, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry informed from Caracas.... More


United Nations, March 18 (RHC)-- The world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries will suffer the most from a pandemic downturn, the UN’s conference on trade and development (UNCTAD) said in its latest report.... More


Ramallah, March 18 (RHC)-- The Israeli regime has shot up the monthly rate at which it destroys the Palestinian-owned structures in the occupied West Bank by 65 percent compared to last year, a UN office reports.... More


Paris, March 18 (RHC)-- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone on trial over claims of illicit financing for his failed 2012 re-election bid, just two weeks after a landmark conviction for corruption.... More


Washington, March 18 (RHC)-- A joint report by several branches of the United States intelligence community concludes “that racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” are the “most likely to conduct mass-casualty” attacks against civilians.... More


Mexico City, March 18 (RHC)-- The Mexican government reminded the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, to "conduct himself according to his faculties" and avoid interfering in the internal affairs of Bolivia, whose government of Luis Arce was democratically elected.... More


Bogota, March 18 (RHC)-- The Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) of Colombia reports that in the village of El Plateado in the Cacan municipality of Argelia, a massacre took place that claimed the lives of at least five people.... More


New York, March 18 (RHC)-- White supremacist propaganda reached alarming levels across the US in 2020, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.... More


London, March 18 (RHC)-- English football did not do enough to protect children from pedophile coaches in an “institutional failure” by the game’s governing body, an inquiry into sexual abuse up from 1970 to 2005 has found.... More


Ramallah, March 18 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Wednesday received the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX sharing initiative, in a boost to inoculations in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip which lag far behind Israel’s campaign.... More


New York, March 18 (RHC)-- A brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez should be sentenced to life in prison for running a “state-sponsored drug trafficking conspiracy” with the nation’s current leader, U.S. federal prosecutors say in documents filed before a sentencing hearing scheduled next week.... More


New York, March 18 (RHC)-- In New York City, taxi drivers have led daily protests for over a week against Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan he claims will offer relief to heavily indebted taxi medallion owners, who have suffered even more economic loss during the pandemic.... More


New York, March 18 (RHC)-- In New York, over 3,000 research and teaching assistants at Columbia University have gone on strike after two years of unsuccessful negotiations with the prestigious college over their union’s first contract. ... More


Washington, March 18 (RHC)-- U.S. Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is calling on the Justice Department to probe the FBI’s 2018 background check of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which Senator Whitehouse says was “politically constrained and perhaps fake.” ... More


Brasilia, March 18 (RHC)-- Brazil has reported a single-day record of 90,303 new cases of COVID-19, as the South American nation continues to grapple with mounting coronavirus infections and deaths.  The health ministry said on Wednesday that 2,648 additional deaths were recorded over the previous 24-hour period, bringing the country’s total to over 282,000 deaths – second only to the United States.... More


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