Washington, August 10 (RHC)-- The United States set a record for coronavirus cases over the weekend, with more than five million people now infected, according to a Reuters tally, as the country's top infectious diseases official offered hope earlier this week that an effective vaccine might be available by year-end.... More
Brasilia, August 10 (RHC)-- Brazil's coronavirus deaths have surpassed 100,000 deaths five months after the first reported case in a sign that the country has not contained the deadly disease.... More
Ramallah, August 10 (RHC)-- A Palestinian media report has warned of an Israeli regime’s plan to build hundreds of new illegal settler units in the strategically sensitive E1 region of the occupied West Bank in East Jerusalem.... More
Tokyo, August 9 (RHC)-- The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban.... More
Caracas, August 9 (RHC)-- After admitting to having committed the crimes of conspiracy, association (to commit a crime), illicit trafficking in weapons of war and terrorism, two U.S. citizens -- Luke Alexander Denman and Airan Berry, aged 34 and 41 respectively -- were sentenced to 20 years in prison in Venezuela.... More
Cairo, August 8 (RHC)-- Arab League Chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Saturday he would seek to mobilize Arab efforts to provide support to Lebanon after a massive explosion destroyed parts of its capital Beirut this week.... More
United Nations, August 8 (RHC)-- The United Nations has not received any requests to investigate the deadly explosion in Beirut's port, a UN spokesman said after French President Emmanuel Macron called for an international inquiry.... More
Washington, August 8 (RHC)-- U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey and Kirsten Gillibrand have introduced the "Make Billionaires Pay Act" -- a 60% tax on over $700 billion in windfall profits made this year by the top 0.001% of Americans. ... More
New York, August 8 (RHC)-- New York State Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association, the NRA, seeking to dissolve the gun lobby group over what she called a “culture of self-dealing, mismanagement and negligent oversight that was illegal, oppressive, and fraudulent.” ... More
New York, August 8 (RHC)-- BuzzFeed reports Facebook deleted misinformation warnings against high-profile right-wing pages and reportedly fired an employee who collected evidence of Facebook giving such pages preferential treatment. ... More
Seattle, August 8 (RHC)-- Nearly 300,000 Americans could be dead from COVID-19 by December 1st, according to a forecast by health experts at the University of Washington, although they said 70,000 lives could be saved if people were scrupulous about wearing masks.... More
Mexico City, August 8 (RHC)-- Mexico's health ministry reported 6,590 new confirmed coronavirus infections and 819 fatalities, bringing the country's totals to 462,690 infections and 50,517 deaths.... More
Washington, August 8 (RHC)-- The U.S. State Department and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lifted global advisories recommending U.S. citizens avoid all international travel because of the coronavirus pandemic, and instead issued a raft of high-level warnings for individual countries.... More
Buenos Aires, August 8 (RHC)-- The former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, denounced that the de-facto government of Jeanine Añez is in complicity with the military and preparing a coup d'état to prevent the holding of general elections.... More
Ramallah, August 8 (RHC)-- A Palestinian woman has died of a gunshot wound after being shot near the site of clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli troops in the illegally occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said.... More
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