Geneva, January 5 (RHC)-- Global coronavirus cases have skyrocketed to a new record high, with more than 2.2 million confirmed cases reported on Monday.... More
Washington, January 5 (RHC)-- U.S. Republican lawmakers who voted last year to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election received over $8 million in campaign donations from corporations and trade groups — even after the deadly January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. ... More
Washington, January 5 (RHC)-- The snow storm is over but the travel misery lingered as drivers on a major highway outside Washington reported Tuesday they were stuck in their cars in freezing weather for 24 hours or more.... More
Islamabad, January 5 (RHC)-- Pakistan says it registered 898 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, the biggest jump in daily cases since mid-October, according to official data. There were five deaths recorded on Tuesday, according to the data, taking the official death toll since the pandemic began to 28,950.... More
La Paz, January 5 (RHC)-- The Puebla Group expressed its support for the initiative reiterated by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to offer asylum to the Australian journalist and founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, who is a victim of political persecution by U.S. authorities.... More
Occupied East Jerusalem, January 5 (RHC)-- Israeli authorities have demolished a medical center and several structures in occupied al-Quds, sources say. The Palestinian Information Center cited local sources as saying that Israeli vehicles, accompanied by police forces, stormed the village of Jabel al-Mukaber, southeast of al-Quds City, and destroyed Abdullah al-Sheikh medical center on Tuesday morning.... More
Tunis, January 5 (RHC)-- Up to 70 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean have taken refuge on an oil platform before being handed over to Tunisian authorities, energy giant Shell and a rescue charity have said.... More
Tokyo, January 4 (RHC)-- The top government officials in Japan’s Okinawa prefecture have blasted the U.S. military for failing to contain the COVID-19 outbreak at its bases in the country and allowing the Omicron variant to spill over to the local population.... More
Bucharest, January 4 (RHC)-- The number of daily COVID-19 infections has more than doubled in Romania following an easing of restrictions during the winter holidays. ... More
Ramallah, January 4 (RHC)-- A Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 141 days to protest being imprisoned without charge has agreed to end his fast after reaching a deal with Israel to be released next month, his lawyer said.... More
Tokyo, January 4 (RHC)-- The number of new COVID infections in Japan has risen above 1,000 for the first time in three months, the Jiji news agency reported.... More
New York, January 4 (RHC)-- The eldest children of former President Donald Trump, Ivanka and Donald Jr., are not planning to comply with subpoenas from the New York attorney general. New York Attorney General Letitia James and an attorney for the Trump Organization made the announcement in a document they jointly filed on Monday.... More
Washington, January 4 (RHC)-- The United States recorded more than one million COVID-19 cases on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. There were 1,080,211 new cases in the country, a global record, with the number of cases doubling on the previous week.... More
Denver, January 4 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Colorado, Governor Jared Polis reduced the 110-year prison sentence of truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos to 10 years, calling the initial lengthy sentence “unjust.” ... More
New York, January 4 (RHC)-- The Earth is facing the biggest extinction event since the end of the dinosaur era, with a million species at risk of becoming extinct within the next few decades, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has said in a report.... More
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