Bogota, February 14 (RHC)-- The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) reported Saturday that its senior advisor and founder of the Indigenous and Social Movement (MAIS), Luis Fernando Arias, died from complications arising from COVID-19. ... More
Vienna, February 14 (RHC)-- In Austria, protesters held a huge rally in Vienna’s city center, defying a police ban on what’s become regular rallies in Austria against the government-imposed restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus.... More
Miami, February 14 (RHC)-- Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, has welcomed his acquittal in a second impeachment trial, saying his political movement “to Make America Great Again has only just begun.”... More
Quito, February 14 (RHC)-- Former Latin American presidents have rejected the interference shown by Colombia's attorney general, Francisco Barbosa, in Ecuador's elections, and in opposition to presidential candidate Andres Arauz, winner of the first electoral round.... More
Damascus, February 14 (RHC)-- The United States is establishing an airport in its military base within an oilfield in Syria's eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, a report says. The Hajin Military Council in the province, affiliated to the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), announced the news, Arabic-language Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Anba reported.... More
Brasilia, February 14 (RHC)-- Leaders of Brazil’s indigenous communities say evangelical missionaries are scaring people away from receiving coronavirus accine in remote villages, accusing far-right President Jair Bolsonaro being behind the campaign. ... More
Ottawa, February 14 (RHC)-- Air travellers to Canada will quarantine in a hotel starting on February 22nd as they await the result of a coronavirus test, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in Ottawa, the Canadian capital. Trudeau previously announced stricter restrictions would be imposed on non-essential air travellers in response to new, likely more contagious coronavirus variants.... More
Geneva, February 14 (RHC)-- The head of the World Health Organization has said that all hypotheses on the origins of COVID-19 remained on the table, following an investigative mission in China. The WHO’s mission to Wuhan, where the first coronavirus infections were identified in December 2019, failed to identify the source of the virus but poured cold water on the theory that it leaked from the city’s virology laboratory.... More
Buenos Aires, February 14 (RHC)-- Former Argentinean President Carlos Menem died Sunday in a Buenos Aires clinic at the age of 90, according to media reports. Menem, who was a Peronist senator, had been hospitalized several times in recent months.... More
Barcelona, February 14 (RHC)-- Polls opened in Catalonia early Sunday morning for an election overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic and which Madrid hopes will unseat the region’s governing separatists more than three years after a failed bid to break away from Spain.... More
Quito, February 14 (RHC)-- Ecuador’s top electoral body has said it will conduct a partial recount of February 7 presidential polls after a request from two candidates still fighting for second place.... More
Tokyo, February 14 (RHC)-- A magnitude 7.3 earthquake has struck off Japan’s east coast, rattling a region hit by a powerful 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown just weeks before the disaster’s 10th anniversary. The earthquake on Saturday produced powerful shaking along the coast and was felt strongly in the capital, Tokyo, but triggered no tsunami alert.... More
Ramallah, February 13 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have used force to disperse weekly anti-settlement protests in several areas across the occupied West Bank, leaving dozens of people injured. Troops attacked a peaceful anti-settlement rally in the village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus City, on Friday. The eastern part of the village is threatened with seizure by Israel.... More
Washington, February 13 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been acquitted on a charge of “incitement of insurrection” in relation to the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol.... More
Washington, February 13 (RHC)-- A U.S. Justice Department official has said the administration of President Joe Biden has appealed a British judge's ruling against the extradition of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks -- an international, non-profit whistle-blowing organization that was created in Iceland in 2006.... More
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