United Nations, February 13 (RHC)-- February 13th is commemorated as World Radio Day. The date was adopted in 2011 by the Member States of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO -- to celebrate radio as part of humanity’s history by following the various developments in our society and adapting its services. ... More
London, February 13 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom’s coronavirus-ravaged economy shrank 9.9 percent in 2020, the biggest annual fall in output since modern records began, but it avoided heading back towards recession at the end of last year, official figures showed on Friday.... More
San Diego, February 12 (RHC)-- A recent court filing in the 2010 case of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, a Mexican man who was beaten and shocked to death by border agents, reveals the current head of Border Patrol, Chief Rodney Scott, was part of efforts to protect the agents involved and interfere with the criminal investigation. ... More
Washington, February 12 (RHC)-- Over two dozen U.S. lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to consider the devastating impacts of harsh U.S. sanctions on countries around the world, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic. ... More
Washington, February 12 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden says his administration has secured the 200 million vaccine doses from Pfizer and Moderna he announced last month — meaning there will be enough shots to inoculate 300 million U.S. residents by the end of July.... More
Hollywood, February 12 (RHC)-- A famous American actress has been fired from her role in a popular series and also disowned by her agency after using an Instagram post to compare the current level of intolerance in the U.S. with the hatemongering that paved the way for the Holocaust.... More
Bogota, February 12 (RHC)-- In Colombia, the Comunes Party (formerly known as the FARC) has denounced the murder of another ex-combatant in the town of Puerto Asis, Putumayo department. The political group reported that the murder of Antonio Ricaurte Solarte, 43, was committed on February 9th.... More
Brasilia, February 12 (RHC)-- A coronavirus variant identified in the Brazilian Amazon may be three times more contagious but early analysis suggests vaccines are still effective against it, the country’s health minister said on Thursday, without providing evidence for the claims.... More
Washington, February 11 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden said that the United States is facing a “national emergency” in the coronavirus pandemic and his administration is working to supply enough COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate 300 million Americans. “We’re in a national emergency,” said Biden, wearing a mask during remarks to scientists at the National Institutes of Health just outside Washington, DC.... More
Madison, February 12 (RHC)-- A judge in the U.S. state of Wisconsin has refused prosecutors’ request to issue a new arrest warrant for an 18-year-old from Illinois accused of killing two people during a police brutality protest in Wisconsin last summer.... More
New York, February 12 (RHC)-- Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, believes that the United States is a “state of war” as the country has been engaged in numerous wars during the past 30 years.... More
Fort Worth, February 12 (RHC)-- A report that 81 migrants were trapped in the back of a tanker truck in Texas, struggling to breathe has prompted U.S. authorities to launch an investigation. Earlier this week, a man called 911, saying he along with 80 other undocumented migrants were trapped in the back of a truck he thought was parked on a roadside, according to a recording of the call obtained by CBS News.... More
Caracas, February 12 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said goodbye in an official meeting at the Miraflores Palace to the resident coordinator of the United Nations Organization in Venezuela since 2016, Peter Grohmann.... More
Pretoria, February 12 (RHC)-- South Africa has secured millions of doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to fight a highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that is dominant in the country, according to President Cyril Ramaphosa.... More
Mexico City, February 12 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that migrants who believe the “doors are open” to the United States, now that Joe Biden is president, are wrong. Lopez Obrador urged migrants not to believe traffickers who tell them they could get legal status immediately.... More
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