New York, January 26 (RHC)-- In the United States, the American Library Association has awarded a Caldecott Medal to the children’s picture book “We Are Water Protectors” — marking the first time in history Indigenous people are recognized with the award. ... More
Boston, January 26 (RHC)-- Moderna, a U.S. pharmaceutical and biotechnology company based in Massachusetts, has announced that its COVID-19 vaccine is effective at preventing disease in people infected with new variants of coronavirus. But Moderna warned the vaccine appears to be less potent against one variant, first discovered in South Africa.... More
Washington, January 26 (RHC)-- In the United States, the Justice Department’s inspector general has announced plans to investigate whether any current or former officials at the Department worked with former President Donald Trump in his failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election. ... More
Toronto, January 26 (RHC)-- Activists in the Canadian province of Ontario have staged a protest at the site of a transport company they say is involved in transporting Canadian-made, light armoured vehicles (LAVs) to Saudi Arabia.... More
San Juan, January 26 (RHC)-- Puerto Rico has declared a state of emergency over its deep-rooted problem of violence against women, creating new measures demanded by activists for years to battle a deadly tide. The U.S. colonial territory has seen sustained levels of violence that on average result in one woman’s death per week, measured in a 2019 report.... More
London, January 26 (RHC)-- The COVID-19 pandemic has now claimed more than 100,000 lives in the UK, thus bringing the government’s mishandling of the crisis into even sharper relief. A record 1,610 people have died of COVID-19 across the UK in the past 24 hours as the pandemic continues to surge.... More
Mexico City, January 26 (RHC)-- The World Social Forum (WSF) continued Tuesday with the themes of education, communications and culture, after exhausting the agenda on Social Justice, according to the program of this 20th virtual meeting coordinated by Mexico.... More
Rome, January 26 (RHC)-- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigned from office on Tuesday, two weeks after a key coalition partner quit his government over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic and an economic downturn.... More
Brasilia, January 26 (RHC)-- With hospitals overrun and supplies of oxygen running out, Brazilian epidemiologist Jesem Orellana said COVID-19 patients’ hospital beds in Manaus, the capital of the country’s Amazonas region, turned into “asphyxiation chambers.”... More
Ramallah, January 26 (RHC)-- Israel keeps demolishing Palestinian buildings as its soldiers storm various areas in the occupied West Bank to deliver demolition notices. ... More
New York, January 26 (RHC)-- Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, a new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher. Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the mid-1990s. Annually, the melt rate is now about 57 percent faster than it was three decades ago, scientists report in a study published Monday in the journal The Cryosphere.... More
Gaza City, January 26 (RHC)-- Palestinian refugees demonstrated in the Gaza Strip against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), slamming its cuts to essential services amid the coronavirus pandemic.... More
Beirut, January 26 (RHC)-- Israeli fighter jets have reportedly violated Lebanese airspace, carrying out a number of high-altitude flights over several southern cities. Lebanon’s state-run media said Israel used F-35 and F-15 warplanes on Monday afternoon to violate the country’s airspace over the cities of Nabatiyeh, Iqlim al-Tuffah and Tyre.... More
New Delhi, January 26 (RHC)-- Columns of tractors in northern India have blocked a major highway as tens of thousands of Indian farmers protesting against the government’s new farm laws drove towards the capital of New Delhi ahead of celebrations for the country’s Republic Day.... More
Washington, January 26 (RHC)-- Nearly 200 National Guard members have tested positive for the coronavirus after they deployed to Washington, D.C., for Joe Biden’s inauguration, following the deadly failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. ... More
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