Caracas, March 16 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez affirmed that health authorities will not grant permission for the AstraZeneca vaccine to be used in the country to immunize the population due to the effects that the drug has reported in several European countries. ... More


Brasilia, March 16 (RHC)-- A new report on an illegal scheme of banking operations by the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, and his son Carlos, reveals another case of corruption for which Flavio Bolsonaro is denounced.... More


Paris, March 16 (RHC)-- France will likely be hit with further restrictive measures in the next few days in a bid to curb the country's rising COVID-19 infection rate, French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Monday.... More


La Paz, March 16 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Prosecutor's Office announced the arrest of former Army General Pastor Mendieta Ferrufino for his participation in the coup against former President Evo Morales between the months of October and November 2019.... More


La Paz, March 16 (RHC)-- The executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), Sacha Llorentti, said that the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, has no moral authority to offer advice to the Plurinational State of Bolivia.... More


La Paz, March 15 (RHC)-- Iván Lima, Minister of Justice and Institutional Transparency of Bolivia, from the official Facebook account of that institution reported on Monday about the formalization of new charges against the former de facto president Jeanine Añez and collaborators of the former president.... More


Canberra, March 15 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of people have marched in protest across Australia amid widespread shock at allegations of sexual misconduct in the country’s federal parliament and growing concern that the legal system is failing women who are victims of abuse and violence.... More


Louisville, March 15 (RHC)-- Protests and gatherings were held in Louisville, Kentucky, and other cities across the United States over the weekend, marking one year since plainclothes police officers busted through the door of Breonna Taylor’s home in the middle of the night and shot her dead. ... More


Minneapolis, March 15 (RHC)-- The U.S. city of Minneapolis has reached a record $27 million civil settlement with the family of George Floyd.  The unarmed Black man was murdered by a white police officer last May when he kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes.... More


Kabul, March 15 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, a car bomb in western Herat province killed at least eight people and injured over 50.  Most of the victims were civilians.  No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. ... More


Washington, March 15 (RHC)-- Nearly 70 million U.S. residents have received at least one vaccine dose, with about 11% of the population fully vaccinated.  ... More


Washington, March 15 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the Joe Biden administration has instructed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, to help process the increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children arriving in the United States.... More


Ramallah, March 15 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Authority and the Arab League have condemned the Czech Republic’s opening of a diplomatic office in Jerusalem as a violation of international law.  Last week, Prague opened a Jerusalem branch of its Israel embassy, which is located in Tel Aviv.... More


Quito, March 15 (RHC)-- The Electoral Tribunal (TCE) of Ecuador has rejected the appeal presented by the presidential candidate of the Pachakutik party, Yaku Perez, who alleged electoral fraud that affected his vote in the elections of last February 7th.... More


Brownsville, March 15 (RHC)-- A video has been released showing people waiting for rafts with human smugglers to cross the border from Mexico across the Rio Grande into Texas.  The video appeared on a TikTok account trying to raise awareness about the situation at the southern border of the United States.... More


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