Washington, December 14 (RHC)-- A World Bank-administered trust fund says it will transfer $280 million to the World Food Program and UNICEF in Afghanistan in an effort to ease a looming humanitarian catastrophe. ... More
Washington, December 13 (RHC)-- A top-secret U.S. military unit sidestepped safeguards and repeatedly ordered airstrikes that killed civilians as it worked to identify targets in the U.S. bombing campaign against the Islamic State in Syria. ... More
Atlanta, December 13 (RHC)-- As U.S. COVID-19 deaths approach 800,000, health officials are urging fully vaccinated people to get their booster shots while the Delta winter surge continues and more Omicron cases are identified. ... More
Havana, December 13 (RHC)-- Sacha Llorenti, Executive Secretary of ALBA-TCP, Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement, said that this organization seeks complementarity with other integration mechanisms.... More
Vienna, December 13 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands gathered in Austria’s capital Vienna to protest mandatory COVID vaccines and home confinement orders for those who have not yet received the jab. Police said an estimated 44,000 people attended the demonstration on Saturday, the latest in a string of huge weekend protests since Austria last month became the first EU country to say it would make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory.... More
Tel Aviv, December 13 (RHC)-- Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his decision to congratulate Joe Biden on his electoral win before most other world leaders. The message infuriated Donald Trump, once a close ally of Netanyahu.... More
Tegucigalpa, December 13 (RHC)-- The president-elect of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, announced this Sunday that she will be sworn in and take office on January 27, 2022.... More
Caracas, December 13 (RHC)-- Bolivian Vice President David Choquehuanca met this Sunday with his Venezuelan counterpart, Delcy Rodríguez, to strengthen the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries.... More
La Paz, December 13 (RHC)-- The Puebla Group and the Latin American Council for Justice and Democracy, described this Sunday as a grave miscarriage of justice the ruling of the Westminster Court in the UK last Friday that enables the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States.... More
Geneva, December 13 (RHC)-- More than half a billion people globally were pushed into extreme poverty last year as they paid for health costs out of their own pockets during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the World Health Organization and the World Bank.... More
London, December 13 (RHC)--The UK has raised its COVID alert level due to the “rapid increase” in cases of the Omicron variant, the country’s four chief medical officers have said. The advisers said on Sunday the public health risk assessment would move from level three to four – the second-highest level – which indicates “transmission is high and pressure on healthcare services is widespread and substantial or rising.”... More
London, December 12 (RHC)-- The founder and publisher of WikiLeaks Julian Assange had a mini-stroke during his battle to avoid extradition from Britain to the United States, his fiancee Stella Moris said over the weekend in London.... More
Tel Aviv, December 12 (RHC)-- Israel’s military is preparing a possible strike against Iran, the country’s media has reported citing defense and diplomatic sources. Tel Aviv has already notified the Joe Biden White House of its plans, facing “no veto” on such preparations.... More
Beijing, December 12 (RHC)-- The Chinese Foreign Ministry has accused the US of using the idea of “democracy” as a “weapon of mass destruction” to impose its will upon the world, after Beijing was left uninvited from Washington’s ‘Summit for Democracy.’... More
Brasilia, December 12 (RHC)-- Websites belonging to Brazil’s health ministry have been taken down by a ransomware attack that also hit systems holding details about the country’s immunization program and a portal used to issue digital vaccination certificates.... More
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