Moscow, March 18 (RHC)-- Russia has called its ambassador to the U.S. to come back home for consultations on the future of Moscow-Washington relations after U.S. President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “a killer.”... More
Mexico City, March 18 (RHC)-- El Grupo de Puebla (The Puebla Group) -- made up of presidents, former presidents and progressive leaders of Latin America -- warned of insufficient moral authority in the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, to criticize Bolivia for arresting leaders of a coup d'état.... More
Brasilia, March 17 (RHC)-- More than half of Brazilians think that President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic is bad or very bad. According to the new poll published Tuesday by the Datafolha Institute 54 percent of respondents rated Bolsonaro's performance in handling the crisis caused by the new coronavirus poorly. In the previous poll, conducted in January, the negative opinion was 48 percent.... More
Managua, March 17 (RHC)-- Nicaragua has received a donation of 135 thousand doses of vaccines against Covid-19 from AstraZeneca through the international mechanism Covax.... More
United Nations, March 17 (RHC)-- United Nations experts have assessed that the arms embargo imposed on Libya by the world body continues to be violated on a regular basis and remains "totally ineffective." An international arms ban was imposed on Libya in 2011 to prevent the warring parties in the oil-rich North African country from continuing fighting.... More
Paris, March 17 (RHC)-- Protesters denounced a controversial bill aimed at protecting the identity of police officers as they rallied outside the French Senate building in Paris on Tuesday. The government has affirmed its support for the legislation.... More
Ramallah, March 17 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates says the Tel Aviv regime is transforming towns and cities across the occupied West Bank into isolated islands scattered among Israeli settlements.... More
Sarajevo, March 17 (RHC)-- Alarm is growing in Bosnia over the escalating coronavirus crisis in the Sarajevo canton, which has recorded the highest rate of cases and deaths in the Western Balkans. In the two weeks to March 14, the canton of Bosnia’s capital registered 1,763 cases and 31.5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, according to data by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.... More
London, March 17 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom says it plans to invest one billion pounds ($1.39 billion) to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals as part of wider “green revolution” designed to create thousands of jobs and meet climate targets.... More
Atlanta, March 17 (RHC)-- At least eight people, most of them Asian women, were killed in shootings at three different spas in the U.S. state of Georgia on Tuesday, with a 21-year-old white man in custody on suspicion of staging all three attacks, police said.... More
Paris, March 17 (RHC)-- France’s health ministry has warned that a new variant of COVID-19 found in the country’s north may evade conventional PCR testing, but initial analysis suggests it is not more contagious or deadly.... More
Syrian media say the country’s air defenses have shot down a number of Israeli missiles near the capital, Damascus. Syria's official news agency SANA, citing a military source, announced late on Tuesday: “The Israeli enemy perpetrated a missile aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights on some targets on the outskirts of Damascus.”... More
La Paz, March 17 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through an official statement, has rejected the statements of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, issued by him in defense of the former de facto president, Jeanine Áñez.... More
United Nations, March 17 (RHC)-- The coronavirus pandemic may have indirectly contributed to around 228,000 additional child deaths in 2020, 11,000 maternal fatalities and 3.5 million unwanted pregnancies in South Asia, the United Nations has said in a report.... More
Santiago de Chile, March 17 (RHC)-- Chile has been battling the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which has turned out to be far more aggressive than the first one, despite the Latin American nation vaccinating more than one-third of its population.... More
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