Dallas, January 26 (RHC)-- The pandemic is continuing to take a severe toll on children and young people. A new report finds one in six households in the U.S. with children have not been getting enough to eat. School closures have also meant many young people are not getting essential mental and emotional support from teachers and therapists.... More
Bogota, January 26 (RHC)-- Colombian Minister of Defense Carlos Holmes Trujillo died early Tuesday morning of COVID-19, family sources reported. The brother of the Colombian official, José Renán Trujillo, confirmed the news through his account on the social network Twitter.... More
Brussels, January 26 (RHC)-- Venezuela’s Juan Guaido is a so-called “privileged interlocutor” but no longer considered interim president, European Union states said in a statement on Monday, sticking by their decision to downgrade his status.... More
Sydney, January 26 (RHC)-- Police made arrests in Australia on Tuesday as thousands of people defied public health concerns and protested against the mistreatment of Indigenous people on the day marking the 1788 arrival of the British First Fleet.... More
Rotterdam, January 26 (RHC)-- Police in the Netherlands arrested at least 150 people after rioting broke out for a third night on Monday, following weekend protests triggered by anger over a nighttime curfew and lockdown imposed because of the coronavirus.... More
Pretoria, January 25 (RHC)-- South Africa is reportedly paying nearly 2.5 times more for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine than EU countries. The news has prompted stronger calls to halt vaccine nationalism and price gouging. EU nations are reportedly paying less because they funded research and development of the vaccine.... More
Minneapolis, January 25 (RHC)-- The United States has reported its first known case of the COVID-19 variant first detected in Brazil. The Minnesota Department of Health confirmed the case on Monday, the same day President Joe Biden extended coronavirus restrictions barring most non-U.S. citizens who recently travelled to Brazil, South Africa and several European countries from entering the United States.... More
Washington, January 25 (RHC)-- The U.S. House of Representatives has presented its article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate, a step that formally sets in motion the Senate trial against the former United States president.... More
New York, January 25 (RHC)-- Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani exploited false election-fraud claims to hawk gold coins, cigars and supplements on a podcast, according to a $1.3 billion defamation suit by a voting machine company.... More
Indianapolis, January 25 (RHC)-- At least five people, including a pregnant woman, have been shot to death at a home in the U.S. city of Indianapolis, Indiana, in an incident the mayor denounced as “a mass murder.” A male juvenile was also in critical condition after the shooting, which marks Indianapolis' "largest mass casualty shooting in more than a decade," according to the police.... More
Mexico City, January 25 (RHC)-- Mexican authorities said they have found 19 shot and burned bodies near a town across the Rio Grande from the US state of Texas in an area that has seen violent territorial disputes between organized crime groups in recent years.... More
Washington, January 25 (RHC)-- The U.S. topped 25 million confirmed coronavirus cases Sunday, over one-quarter of the world’s caseload, which is approaching 100 million. The U.S. has recorded over 419,000 deaths. ... More
Bogota, January 25 (RHC)-- Colombia's National Police Director Jorge Vargas Sunday confirmed another massacre in the Cauca department where four young people were killed and three others were injured.... More
Washington, January 25 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly been entertaining the idea of creating his own political party to compete against the Republican Party -- an effort that appears to be designed as a defense strategy against his impeachment, according to a report.... More
Ramallah, January 25 (RHC)-- Palestinian officials have expressed serious concern over the deteriorating health conditions of prisoners infected with COVID-19 in Israeli prisons. The Prisoners' Press Office said in a statement that the conditions of inmates in Section 8 of the Ramon prison are extremely worrying due to deliberate medical negligence of Israeli prison officials, the Palestinian Information Center reported.... More
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