London, February 15 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom’s government says it has met a target of offering at least a first coronavirus vaccine shot to the most vulnerable people in England by mid-February, reaching some 15 million people in four priority groups.... More
Mexico City, February 15 (RHC)-- Mexico has received a shipment of 870,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine from India, the government said, as the country prepares to prioritise older adults in the next phase of its vaccination campaign.... More
Conakry, February 15 (RHC)-- Three people have died of Ebola and another five tested positive for the virus in southeastern Guinea, the first possible resurgence of the disease there since the world’s worst outbreak in 2013.... More
London, February 15 (RHC)-- The University of Oxford has launched a study to assess the safety and immune response of the COVID-19 vaccine it has developed with AstraZeneca in children for the first time. The new mid-stage trial will determine whether the vaccine is effective for people between the ages of six and 17, according to a statement from the university issued over the weekend.... More
Quito, February 15 (RHC)-- The candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador for the CREO-PSC alliance, Guillermo Lasso, retracted this Sunday the agreement reached with presidential aspirant Yaku Perez for the recount of votes in 17 of the 24 provinces of the country.... More
Caracas, February 15 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez offered this Sunday the balance of COVID-19 in the country, where she highlighted the rate of 94 percent of patients recovered from the virus.... More
Lima, February 15 (RHC)-- Peru's Minister of Health, Oscar Ugarte, announced this Sunday the creation of a Commission to investigate the scandal of Sinopharm vaccines that some government officials applied in September 2020, before the acquisition of the doses and the vaccination plan against COVID-19.... More
London, February 14 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court has ruled that a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen can sue Royal Dutch Shell in English courts after years of oil spills in the Niger Delta contaminated land and groundwater there.... More
Baghdad, February 14 (RHC)-- Dhoha Sabah had been married for eighteen years when her husband first laid a hand on her. Crowded into a modest, single-room home in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighbourhood, the couple had always struggled to put food on the table for their four children.... More
Athens, February 14 (RHC)-- Across Southern Europe’s tourist hotspots, all they can do is get ready and hope. Vaccinations for the coronavirus are being rolled out, but it’s going to be months before enough shots are delivered that people can start crowding onto planes, taking cruises, or hanging out in packed bars along the beach. That means businesses are largely in the dark about this year’s summer season.... More
Melbourne, February 14 (RHC)-- Draped in a possum-skin cloak Senator Lidia Thorpe entered her first day in the Australian Federal parliament last September with her right fist raised in a Black Power salute. In her left hand, she carried a stick engraved with 441 stripes representing the number of Indigenous people to die in custody since a landmark Royal Commission in 1991.... More
Caracas, February 14 (RHC)-- During a press conference in Caracas, UN Human Rights envoy, Alena Douhan, delivered a preliminary assessment of her visit to Venezuela to evaluate the effects of Washington's blockade against the Latin American nation.... More
Sanaa, February 14 (RHC)-- Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition this year in war-torn Yemen, UN agencies have warned, as the United States steps up efforts to end six years of devastating war.... More
Ramallah, February 14 (RHC)-- Since the beginning of 2021, Israeli forces have destroyed at least 178 Palestinian buildings in the occupied West Bank rendering at least 259 Palestinians homeless, including 140 children. According to a report by the Office for the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs in the Palestinian Territories (OCHA), the recent demolitions took place in mainly the Bedouin community of Humsa village in the northern Jordan valley.... More
Caracas, February 14 (RHC)-- A plane carrying Iranian catalysts has landed in Venezuela to help jump-start the oil refineries in the South American country amid a fuel crisis, a report says. It was confirmed over the weeked that the shipment of the catalysts to the 955,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Paraguana Refining Complex, a crude oil refinery center in western Venezuela, arrived on Saturday. ... More
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