Washington, October 16 (RHC)-- The Biden administration is planning to reinstate a controversial Trump-era immigration policy along its southern border that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their hearings in U.S. immigration court.... More
Paris, October 16 (RHC)-- Sixty years ago, Algerians in Paris were arrested, killed, and drowned in the Seine by French police. They were peacefully demonstrating against a curfew on them months before the end of the Algerian war.... More
Brasilia, October 16 (RHC)-- The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, met this weekend with social movements associated with the struggle for land, water and environmental rights as part of the contact activities of the former president with the bases of social support for the Workers' Party (PT).... More
Washington, October 16 (RHC)-- Fresh calls to ban police use of tear gas came after the House Oversight Committee released a memo noting the U.S. government does not regulate the chemical weapon and never found it to be safe for use on humans. ... More
New York, October 16 (RHC)-- A coalition of immigrant and racial justice organizations have filed a civil rights lawsuit denouncing Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s brutal assaults against African asylum seekers. ... More
Santiago de Chile, October 16 (RHC)-- In Chile, opposition lawmakers have launched impeachment proceedings against President Sebastián Piñera over possible irregularities in the 2010 sale of a mining company that is partially owned by Piñera’s children. ... More
Geneva, October 16 (RHC)-- A meeting of the World Trade Organization’s intellectual property council has ended without action on a proposal to suspend patent rights on COVID-19 vaccines. ... More
Washington, October 16 (RHC)-- The United States will reopen its borders to foreign visitors who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 beginning on November 8, a White House official has announced, ending an 18-month ban on most travel to the country.... More
La Paz, October 16 (RHC)-- The Plurinational Constitutional Court (TCP) of Bolivia ruled on Friday that the self-proclamation of Jeanine Áñez as de facto president after the 2019 coup d'état, was illegal as there was no power vacuum.... More
New Delhi, October 15 (RHC)-- India has reopened to fully vaccinated foreign tourists travelling on chartered flights in the latest easing of its coronavirus restrictions as infection numbers decline.... More
Kabul, October 15 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, a massive explosion at a Shia mosque in Kandahar has killed at least 32 people during Friday prayers and injured scores of others, according to local officials. ... More
Addis Abba, October 15 (RHC)-- Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has called on the African Union (AU) to reverse a decision by the pan-African bloc to grant the occupying Israeli regime observer status at the continental organization, urging the AU to stand by Palestine and reject a tacit endorsement of present-day colonialism amid Israeli war crimes.... More
Sydney, October 15 (RHC)-- Sydney will open up to fully vaccinated international travellers from November 1 without the need for quarantine, the leader of the country’s most populous state said on Friday, bringing forward a full return of overseas travel.... More
Tehran, October 15 (RHC)-- The U.S. photo and video sharing social networking service Instagram has locked Press TV's account in yet another attack by U.S.-based social media giants on Iranian media outlets.... More
Brasilia, October 15 (RHC)-- A study conducted by the Brazilian Research Network on Food and Nutritional Sovereignty and Security, about 20 million people go 24 hours without eating anything.... More
