Brasilia, January 31 (RHC)-- The "Stop Bolsonaro Mundial" movement -- organized by activists living in Brazil and abroad belonging to different Brazilian collectives and many other nationalities -- held its fourth international day on Sunday.... More


Ramallah, January 31 (RHC)-- Israeli undercover agents have kidnapped a number of Palestinians in large-scale dawn raids across the occupied West Bank, local media reports say.  Israeli forces arrested Palestinian civilians after storming several neighborhoods of Qabatiya, Nablus and al-Khalil (Hebron) cities at dawn on Sunday, the Palestinian Information Center reported.... More


Caracas, January 31 (RHC)-- The President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, has announced the arrest of an alleged mercenary who confessed to being involved in the May 3rd attempted military incursion.... More


Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly parted ways with lawyers working on his defence for his Senate impeachment trial, throwing the former president’s legal strategy into disarray, news reports said.... More


New York, January 31 (RHC)-- U.S. prosecutors have said that law enforcement officers found bomb-making instructions inside the home of former President Donald Trump’s loyalists who invaded the Capitol on January 6th.  The prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday 43-year-old Dominic Pezzola -- a member of the Proud Boys right-wing extremist group -- had saved “weapons- and bomb-making manuals” on a thumb drive device in his home near Rochester, New York, Reuters reported.... More


Brussels, January 31 (RHC)-- In Brussels, police arrested around 200 protesters at a non-authorized demonstration against measures aimed at combating the spread of COVID-19 on Sunday.... More


Ramallah, January 31 (RHC)-- The Palestinian Authority has called on the United Nations and the UN Security Council to protect Palestinians in the occupied West Bank against increasing attacks by Israeli troops and settlers.... More


Gaza City, January 31 (RHC)-- Large-scale desalination plants, funded by international donors and private businesses struggling to mitigate the crisis, are in full swing in the besieged Palestinian enclave.  But a new high-tech effort is coming from an unlikely source: a company based in Israel.... More


Paris, January 31 (RHC)-- French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has proposed a ban on Muslim headscarves in all public places, seeking to build on a record recent poll putting her almost neck-and-neck with President Emmanuel Macron.... More


Washington, January 31 (RHC)-- Corruption in the United States is the worst it has been in almost a decade with democratic institutions in “decay” and abuse of office “at the highest level,” according to an annual global report by Transparency International.... More


Los Angeles, January 31 (RHC)-- Demonstrators briefly disrupted a coronavirus vaccination distribution center at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, calling the jabs part of a conspiracy by elites to control the population.... More


Paris, January 31 (RHC)-- Hundreds of people have rallied in several French towns and cities in protests called by anti-capitalist and environmental groups against e-commerce giant Amazon.  Among the places where demonstrators staged rallies on Saturday was the small southern town of Fournes near Pont-du-Gard, a World Heritage site, where the United States-based company plans to set up a 38,000-square-metre (400,000-square-feet) facility.... More


New Delhi, January 31 (RHC)-- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the country would release more locally made COVID-19 vaccines as New Delhi continues to save the lives of people in other countries by exporting medicines and vaccines.... More


Geneva, January 31 (RHC)-- More than 200,000 people have been displaced by election-related violence in the Central African Republic in the past two months, according to the United Nations, with about half fleeing to neighboring countries.  The United Nations refugee agency said that 100,000 people remained internally displaced within the CAR, while 92,000 refugees have crossed the river border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and 13,240 have fled to Cameroon, Chad and the Republic of Congo.... More


New York, January 31 (RHC)-- Johnson & Johnson’s long-awaited vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot – not as strong as some two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses.... More


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