Ramallah, February 21 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have fired rubber bullets and teargas to disperse weekly anti-settlement protests in several areas across the occupied West Bank, leaving dozens of people injured. Zionist troops violently attacked hundreds of Palestinians participating in a peaceful rally in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus City, on Friday, according to the Palestinian Quds News Network.... More
Quito, February 21 (RHC)-- Ecuador's National Electoral Council (CNE) has announced that it will verify the voting records with alleged inconsistencies, corresponding to the recent general elections held earlier this month.... More
Brasilia, February 21 (RHC)-- Brazilian labor centrals, social movements and organizations called for a day of protests on Saturday to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro and the continuity of the vaccination plan against COVID-19.... More
Caracas, February 20 (RHC)-- The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, decreed an Energy Emergency of the entire hydrocarbons industry in order to continue recovering the country's oil industry which has been affected by the multiform war and the illegal imperialist sanctions.... More
Gaza City, February 20 (RHC)-- Large swaths of farmland in the besieged Gaza Strip have been flooded after Israeli officials deliberately emptied out nearby rainwater storages, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to agricultural areas in the impoverished Palestinian enclave.... More
New York, February 20 (RHC)-- People from poorer nations will probably be unable to get a COVID-19 vaccine this year because the world’s richest countries have bought one billion more doses than their citizens need, a new study has found.... More
Beijing, February 20 (RHC)-- China says the United States should immediately lift the sanctions it has re-imposed on Iran after Washington’s violation of a multilateral nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic and unilaterally leaving the deal.... More
Brussels, February 20 (RHC)-- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the number of NATO troops in Iraq would increase eightfold, claiming that the move is intended to fight terrorism and ensure that the Daesh terrorist group does not return.... More
Quito, February 19 (RHC)-- The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador, reported on Friday on its official website that after computing 100 percent of the ballots, the candidate of the Union for Hope (UNES) Andres Arauz is confirmed in first place, while the second place is given to the presidential candidate of the CREO political alliance, Guillermo Lasso.... More
Washington, February 19 (RHC)-- The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has reversed two measures adopted by his predecessor Donald Trump against Iran and offered to rejoin negotiations with the Islamic Republic and other parties to a nuclear agreement Washington left over two years ago, in the first apparent break with the previous administration’s stance against the deal.... More
London, February 19 (RHC)-- The onslaught of the pandemic and the ensuing national lock-downs has lifted the lid off an ugly truth about the UK: 14 million Britons, a third of them children, now live below the breadline: a poverty crisis that is tarnishing the image of one of the most powerful economies on the planet.... More
Caracas, February 19 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, has called on social leaders -- linked by videoconference in an organizational work space of the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples -- to elaborate an agenda of struggle and government for this year, as well as to visualize the construction of socialism towards 2030.... More
Bogota, February 19 (RHC)-- Colombia’s military carried out at least 6,400 extrajudicial killings and presented them as combat deaths between 2002 and 2008, a number that is at least three times higher than previously estimated, a special court has said.... More
Houston, February 19 (RHC)-- Millions of U.S. residents endured another day with shortages of water, heat or electricity, as the death toll from winter storms rose to at least 49. More than 13 million Texans remained under a “boil water advisory,” and some 200,000 had no power, days after Texas’s power grid collapsed amid record low temperatures. ... More
New York, February 19 (RHC)-- In the United States, more than 2,500 people died of COVID-19 on Thursday, with another 70,000 new cases recorded. The official U.S. death toll is on pace to top a half of a million before the end of the month. ... More
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