Atlanta, February 3 (RHC)-- The Southern Poverty Law Center has announced a decrease in hate groups across the United States, although warned the threat – and increasing cooperation – of far-right activists is rising. SPLC noted in its annual Year in Hate and Extremism report there were 838 active hate groups in the United States, ranging from white supremacists to far-right anti-government militias. ... More
Geneva, February 3 (RHC)-- The COVAX global vaccine sharing scheme expects to deliver 35.3 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to 36 Caribbean and Latin American states from mid-February to the end of June, the World Health Organization’s regional office said.... More
Sanna, February 3 (RHC)-- The director-general of the Yemen Executive Mine Action Center (YEMAC) has said the Saudi-led coalition has dropped 3,179 cluster bombs on Yemen since the beginning of its aggression against the defenseless Yemeni people in 2015.... More
Santiago de Chile, February 3 (RHC)-- The Court of Appeals of Santiago de Chile has sentenced four former members of the military and a former government official for the murders of prisoners in the former Public Prison during the military dictatorship.... More
Quito, February 3 (RHC)-- Ecuador enters the final stretch towards this Sunday's elections when voters are concerned about the economic future of the country and the avalanche of corruption cases uncovered in recent months.... More
New Delhi, February 3 (RH)-- Fashion retailer H&M says that it would investigate reports of sexual harassment at a supplier’s factory in southern India following the death of a female employee and the arrest of a male co-worker on suspicion of her murder.... More
New York, February 3 (RHC)-- Exxon Mobil Corp. pledged to safeguard its mammoth dividend after posting its first annual loss in at least 40 years, a show of defiance by an oil driller besieged by activist investors, lawmakers and climate-change campaigners.... More
Geneva, February 3 (RHC)-- COVID-19 vaccine nationalism is harmful for all, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says, warning that weak cooperation between nations is a major barrier to achieving worldwide vaccination at the scale needed to end the coronavirus pandemic.... More
Quito, February 3 (RHC)-- The president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador, Diana Atamaint, in an exclusive interview with the program "En Clave Política" broadcast on teleSUR, affirmed that all political organizations are guaranteed transparency in the February 7th elections.... More
Pretoria, February 2 (RHC)-- South Africa has received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines. The one million AstraZeneca-Oxford shots will be used for healthcare workers as they respond to an overwhelming surge linked to a variant that is believed to be more infectious, and potentially more resistant to current vaccines.... More
New York, February 2 (RHC)-- Seven men who were formerly incarcerated at Guantanamo are urging President Biden to shut down the military prison. The men were released during the Bush and Obama presidencies.... More
Rochester, February 2 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Rochester, New York, one police officer has been suspended and two officers placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation, after body camera video showed them handcuffing and pepper-spraying a 9-year-old girl. ... More
Washington, February 2 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden has signed three executive orders on immigration today. The first establishes a task force that will aim to reunite hundreds of asylum seeking families separated by the Trump administration. The two other orders look into Trump’s disruption of the asylum process, restore funding to Central American countries aimed at combating the root causes of why people flee, and review Trump’s controversial “Remain in Mexico” program and other Trump-era policies that made it harder for immigrants to get permanent residency if they used public aid such as food stamps.... More
San Salvador, February 2 (RHC)-- In El Salvador, two activists were killed over the weekend and five others wounded after gunmen opened fire on a group of supporters of the leftist political party FMLN in the capital San Salvador. ... More
Ramallah, February 2 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have shot and killed three young Palestinians during overnight raids of several areas of the occupied West Bank and confrontations with the residents.... More
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