Geneva, December 5 (RHC)-- A record number of 168 million people, or about one in 45 worldwide, will need assistance in 2020, the United Nations said on Wednesday, adding they would need $29 billion to provide that help.... More
Nairobi, December 5 (RHC)-- Two months of relentless rains have submerged villages and farms and sent rivers of mud crashing into houses across East Africa, with at least 265 killed, according to an AFP tally, as meteorologists warn of more to come.... More
Havana, December 5 (RHC)--The 41st International Havana Film Festival of the New Latin American Cinema got underway Thursday in the Cuban capital with a tribute to the late Alicia Alonso, an acknowledgement to filmmaker Manuel Pérez and with the premiere of an Argentinian film, The Odyssey of the Jerks.... More
Madrid, December 5 (RHC)-- A new analysis says global greenhouse gas emissions are projected to hit a record high in 2019, the latest study highlighting the world’s failure to take the dramatic action needed to avert the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. ... More
Madrid, December 5 (RHC)-- In Spain, a hand grenade was thrown over the walls of a shelter for migrant children in the capital Madrid, in the latest attack against the children. The grenade did not explode until the bomb squad carried out a controlled explosion, and no injuries have been reported. ... More
New Delhi, December 5 (RHC)-- In India, a 23-year-old rape survivor was assaulted and set on fire by her alleged rapists while she was on her way to her court hearing in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... More
Brasilia, December 5 (RHC)-- Brazil's Federal Justice has acquitted former leftist presidents Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff of accusations of being part of a criminal organization whose purpose was to divert public funds to the Workers' Party (PT).... More
Bogota, December 5 (RHC)-- The disapproval rating for the government of Colombian President Ivan Duque has reached 70 percent, a survey from the Invamer group reports. ... More
Tehran, December 5 (RHC)-- Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a letter written to the UN chief by three European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran -- officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- is aimed at hiding their “miserable incompetence” in fulfilling their commitments under the accord.... More
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Kabul, December 5 (RHC)-- In Afghanistan, gunmen killed the head of a Japanese aid agency and five other people in an attack in the eastern city of Jalalabad. ... More
Washington, December 5 (RHC)-- U.S. Attorney General William Barr has threatened communities that have been critical of police brutality, saying they have to be more deferential to the police or risk losing police presence in their neighborhoods entirely. ... More
Miami, December 5 (RHC)-- In the U.S., Florida neighborhood watch vigilante George Zimmerman has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the family of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old unarmed African American teenager that Zimmerman shot and killed in 2012.... More
Mexico City, December 5 (RHC)-- Former Uruguayan President Jose "Pepe" Mujica visited with Evo Morales, Bolivia's constitutionally-elected president who is in exile in Mexico City. Mujica spoke with reporters following his meeting with Evo and strongly condemned the line adopted by the Organization of American States (OAS) in the coup d'état in Bolivia.... More
Rome, December 5 (RHC)-- Italy's Interior Minister has announced that it will allow the landing of 121 migrants who remained aboard the Alan Kurdi and Ocean Viking vessels. Subsequently, they will be relocated to other European Union (EU) countries.... More
Havana, December 5 (RHC) – Macbeth will be staged at the Adolfo Llauradó Theater on December 6, 7 and 8 as part of the British Culture Festival in Havana... More
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