San Salvador, February 16 (RHC)-- The Political Commission of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador admitted two pieces of correspondence (propositions not of law), one of these to retake the report of the special commission that investigated the events that took place on February 9, 2020.... More
Washington, February 16 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to assassinate Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, reveals a former U.S. deputy national security adviser.... More
Boujdour, February 16 (RHC)-- In the Morocco-occupied Western Sahara, renowned Sahrawi activist Sultana Khaya was brutally assaulted by Moroccan agents in her home in the city of Boujdour, where she and her entire family have been held under house arrest since last November 19th, days after the renewal of armed conflict in the territory.... More
Mexico City, February 16 (RHC)-- Mexico began vaccinating senior citizens in more than 300 municipalities across the country on Monday, after receiving approximately 870,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.... More
London, February 16 (RHC)-- The UK is set to forcibly fingerprint foreign migrants, according to sources in London. British Home secretary Priti Patel has proposed a new plan to use force to take fingerprints from refugees and asylum seekers at French ports.... More
Geneva, February 16 (RHC)-- Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday to head the leading international trade body as it seeks to resolve disagreements over how it decides cases involving billions in sales and thousands of jobs.... More
Gaza City, February 16 (RHC)-- Palestinian resistance fighters have reportedly shot down an Israeli spy drone in the besieged Gaza Strip. Palestinian media outlets cited Israeli reports as saying that the Palestinian forces had taken control of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) after it was downed in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Monday night.... More
Quito, February 16 (RHC)-- The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador canceled the meeting it had planned to hold in the city of Guayaquil to discuss the new scrutiny requested by the indigenous candidate Yaku Perez, due to his suspicions of fraud.... More
Harare, February 16 (RHC)-- Zimbabwe has received its first 200,000 coronavirus vaccines, a donation by the Chinese government. Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga was at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in the capital, Harare, in the early hours of Monday for the arrival of the doses of the Sinopharm vaccine from China.... More
Brasilia, February 16 (RHC)-- New evidence of the political nuance of the judicial sanctions imposed on the former president of Brazil, Luis Inazio Lula da Silva, have come to light, when the former commander of the Brazilian Army, retired general Eduardo Villas Bôas, confirmed the military pressure to the Supreme Court to imprison the former president and thus stop his participation in the 2018 elections.... More
Conakry, February 16 (RHC)- Guinea is tracking down people who potentially came in contact with Ebola patients and will distribute vaccines as soon as it can get them, Health Minister Remy Lamah said on Monday. The West African country declared a new Ebola outbreak on Sunday, with seven confirmed cases and three deaths.... More
Panama, February 16 (RHC)-- The Latin American Parliament (Parlatino) called on Monday to revitalize the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the immediate suspension of any sanctions, embargoes, and commercial, economic, and financial blockades.... More
Tel Aviv, February 16 (RHC)-- Israel’s air force has begun a “surprise exercise” to improve combat readiness along the United Nations-demarcated Blue Line between it and Lebanon, according to its military.... More
Brasilia, February 16 (RHC)-- Dozens of Haitian migrants in Brazil held a protest at the border with Peru, where Peruvian police prevented their entry.... More
New York, February 16 (RHC)-- An appeals court has blocked construction of ConocoPhillips’ $2 billion-plus Willow crude oil project in Alaska, putting on hold plans for one of the biggest oil projects in North Slope history.... More
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