Washington, February 27 (RHC)-- The White House coronavirus task force has announced that it would increase the rate of vaccination across the United States, amid a decrease in COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths.... More
United Nations, February 27 (RHC)-- A group of United Nations rights experts welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden's stated goal to shutter the Guantanamo Bay prison, urging Washington to ensure crimes committed there are punished.... More
Suva, February 27 (RHC)-- Much of archipelagic Fiji was forced indoors by lockdowns and a nationwide curfew in March last year when the South Pacific nation recorded its first case of COVID-19. The quick and decisive action by legislators was successful in helping contain the spread of a highly contagious virus and received international praise.... More
New York, February 27 (RHC)-- After a lengthy court battle, the Manhattan district attorney is in possession of Donald Trump’s tax returns and other financial records as part of a criminal investigation into the former president and his family-run Trump Organization, a spokesman for the office confirmed.... More
Athens, February 27 (RHC)-- The Greek MeToo movement lit by Olympian Sofia Bekatorou is becoming a wildfire that now burns uncomfortably close to the government. Culture minister Lina Mendoni faces opposition calls to resign after two men accused the National Theatre director she appointed of raping them when they were barely adults.... More
Rome, February 27 (RHC)-- Rome's Association of Palestinians called a sit-in in the vicinity of the Italian parliament to draw attention on Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine program which excludes the nearly five million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, under Israeli military occupation. The protest was supported by a number of progressive solidarity groups and trade unions. ... More
Quito, February 27 (RHC)-- The irregular vaccination scandal in Latin America has claimed the third of the region's health ministers after the resignation this Friday of the head of the sector in Ecuador, Juan Carlos Zevallos, it was reported from Quito.... More
Brasilia, February 26 (RHC)-- One year after the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in Brazil, Latin America’s biggest country has recorded more than 250,000 deaths from COVID-19, with the virus still spreading as a national vaccination drive struggles to gain momentum.... More
Bogota, February 26 (RHC)-- The spiral of violence in Colombia claimed a new victim when last Wednesday an indigenous leader was murdered in Tumaco (in the west of the country, on the Pacific coast), in the conclusion of a week in which more than a dozen people were victims of insecurity in the same municipality in the state of Nariño.... More
Ramallah, February 26 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Health Ministry has recommended a two-week lockdown amid a surge in coronavirus infections across the West Bank.... More
United Nations, February 26 (RHC)-- A US military strike on facilities belonging to resistance fighters on the Syrian-Iraqi border, the first authorized by President Joe Biden since taking office, has sparked strong condemnation and outrage.... More
New Delhi, February 26 (RHC)-- Researchers in India have identified 7,684 variants of COVID-19 genomes from samples collected across the country, raising fears of a second wave hitting the world’s second most populous nation. ... More
Geneva, February 26 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has warned in a new report that millions of COVID-19 survivors continue to suffer debilitating and lingering symptoms long after their initial bout of the disease, with major social, health and economic consequences. ... More
Quito, February 26 (RHC)-- The presidential candidate of the Union for Hope Alliance (UNES), Andres Arauz, during a meeting held with the Consortium of Provincial Autonomous Governments of Ecuador (Congope), said Thursday that his government will propose new economic policies in rural areas.... More
Washington, February 26 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s supporters plan to “blow up” the U.S. Capitol and kill members of Congress during an address by President Joe Biden, the acting chief of the Capitol Police warned on Thursday.... More
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