Caracas, February 12 (RHC)-- The Puebla Group released on its digital site and social networks a progressive manifesto that promotes the debate and the construction of a collective and alternative political project in Latin America and the Caribbean against the neoliberal model.... More
Washington, February 12 (RHC)-- Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine US democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions told Reuters.... More
Washington, February 12 (RHC)--A judge blocked a motion from Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, leader of the far-right Proud Boys, that challenged an order barring him from returning to Washington, DC, after his January 4 arrest on misdemeanour and felony charges.... More
Paris, February 12 (RHC)-- On October 2 last year, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a law against what he called “Islamist separatism” aimed at tackling “radical” movements in the country. He described Islam as a religion “in crisis” globally, as he sought to boost support for measures intended to regulate how the faith is practised in France.... More
Quito, February 12 (RHC)-- With just over 1,100 tally sheets (less than 3 percent) left to be computed in Ecuador's presidential elections, new data from the Andean country's National Electoral Council now place banker Guillero Lasso as the candidate who would occupy second place in the elections and with the right to move on to the April 11 runoff.... More
Brasilia, February 12 (RHC)-- Teachers and other municipal education workers in São Paulo, Brazil, have been staging a "caravan for life" since Wednesday, in the midst of their strike in protest against what they call the unsafe return to face-to-face classes in conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic.... More
London, February 12 (RHC)-- The Trump administration deliberately harnessed racism and class animosity to push policies that caused hundreds of thousands of U.S. deaths, according to a scathing new report in the British medical journal The Lancet.... More
Ramallah, February 12 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have blown up the house of a Palestinian prisoner in the occupied West Bank whom the Tel Aviv regime has accused of killing an Israeli settler in December last year.... More
Moscow, February 11 (RHC)-- Russia’s media regulator says it has fined the Russian-language service of U.S.-funded Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe nearly $150,000 over non-compliance with its “foreign agent” law, in a penalty that could increase.... More
Brasilia, February 12 (RHC)-- Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called on the people of Brazil to stop the destruction of that country by the government of far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro, during a virtual event held to celebrate the 41st anniversary of the creation of the Workers' Party (PT).... More
Buenos Aires, February 12 (RHC)-- The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) issued the report 'Women's Economic Autonomy in the Recovery, Sustainable and with Equality' -- presented by Alicia Bárcena, secretary general of the regional body.... More
The Hague, February 12 (RHC)-- A UN expert says the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s ruling on its jurisdiction to investigate Israeli war crimes in the occupied territories “opens the door” for justice in Palestine.... More
Washington, February 12 (RHC)-- The United States could have prevented almost half of the total number of the coronavirus deaths in the country, if mortality rates matched other high-income nations, said a commission assessing the Donald Trump era.... More
New York, February 12 (RHC)-- Federal authorities in the United States are investigating a massive counterfeit N95 mask operation in which fake 3M masks were sold in at least five states to hospitals, medical facilities and government agencies. The foreign-made knockoffs are becoming increasingly difficult to spot and could put healthcare workers at grave risk for the coronavirus.... More
Washington, February 11 (RHC)-- The U.S. death toll has topped 471,000 — by far the highest in the world. More than half of all U.S. COVID deaths have occurred since November 1st. A new report in The Lancet medical journal finds 40% of all U.S. COVID deaths could have been prevented.... More
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