Brussels, March 13 (RHC)-- The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic wiped out some six million jobs in the European Union, according to a study released in Brussels, with temporary contractors, young and female workers at times hit harder than in the 2008-09 financial crisis.... More
La Paz, March 13 (RHC)-- The former de facto president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, was arrested early Saturday morning for her links to the coup d'état committed against former president Evo Morales in 2019, reported the Minister of Government, Carlos del Castillo.... More
Brasilia, March 13 (RHC)-- In Brazil, it has been one year since the first COVID-19 related death took place -- exacerbated by President Jair Bolsonaro's catastrophic handling of the pandemic. Public hospitals are at a very critical point and gravediggers are working at the limit of their strength in cemeteries that continue to fill up in the midst of the second wave.... More
Guatemala City, March 12 (RHC)-- Family and friends of the 16 Guatemalan migrants who were burned to death in Tamaulipas, Mexico, received the mortal remains of their loved ones on Friday. The repatriation of the bodies was agreed upon by the governments of Mexico and Guatemala after finishing the identification process of the victims, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Central American country.... More
La Paz, March 12 (RHC)-- A Bolivian court has issued warrants for the arrest of the country’s ex-president and nine other people, including ministers and top military officials, over their role in a coup against former president Evo Morales.... More
New York, March 12 (RHC)-- Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence are spearheading calls for urgent action to help poorer countries recover from the economic ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, including measures to advance vaccine equity, debt relief, and bolstering fiscal resources for cash-strapped nations.... More
United Nations, March 13 (RHC)-- The United Nations says over 88 million people around the world were facing acute hunger by the end of 2020, and some 34 million are now on the brink of famine.... More
Copenhagen, March 13 (RHC)-- The U.S. recorded 62,000 new coronavirus infections and over 1,500 deaths over the past 24 hours, as governors from a number of states continue to roll back public health measures -- despite warnings by health officials.... More
Caracas, March 12 (RHC)-- Venezuela has strongly criticized a distorted and "unbalanced" report issued by Michelle Bachelet and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. ... More
Ramallah, March 12 (RHC)-- Israeli forces detained five Palestinian children for several hours after they were confronted by Jewish settlers while gathering wild vegetables near a settlement outpost in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli human rights group said on Thursday.... More
Baghdad, March 12 (RHC)-- Four roadside bombs have exploded separately near convoys of trucks carrying logistical equipment belonging to the U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, southern province of Muthanna bordering Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the central province of Babil, as well as the southern province of Basra.... More
Atlanta, March 12 (RHC)-- The United States had its deadliest year in its history in 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic caused a 15 percent increase in the country’s death rate. The Atlanta-based Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, made the announcement, noting that more than 334,000 people died from the coronavirus in 2020.... More
Caracas, March 11 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has requested that the United Nations intervene in Brazil to control the situation generated by COVID-19 in the South American giant, which he described as a "tragedy," after a new record was registered with 2,286 deaths.... More
Buenos Aires, March 11 (RHC)-- Human rights organizations in Argentina have called to join a campaign to plant trees throughout the country to remember the 30,000 detained-disappeared on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the military coup in the South American country.... More
Tegucigalpa, March 11 (RHC)-- Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has denied allegations made by a U.S. prosecutor that he helped smuggle tonnes of cocaine into the United States. New York prosecutor Jacob Gutwillig said, during the trial of alleged Honduran drug trafficker Geovanny Fuentes in federal court on Tuesday, that Fuentes had paid Hernandez a $25,000 bribe... More
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