New York, October 1 (RHC)-- In New York, environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger was sentenced to six months in prison after over two years under house arrest on pretrial misdemeanor charges. ... More
Washington, October 1 (RHC)-- Immigrant justice advocates are condemning a federal appeals court’s ruling that will allow the Biden administration to continue mass expelling asylum seekers without due process under Title 42, citing the pandemic as justification. ... More
Asunción, October 1 (RHC)-- Farmers and Indigenous people in Paraguay were repressed this Thursday for the second consecutive day by police agents, in the framework of protests in rejection of the approval by Congress of a law that criminalizes the occupation of land.... More
Washington, October 1 (RHC)--Endless war has taken a toll on the mental health of US troops. An alarming surge in suicide deaths among U.S. troops has happened in recent years, according to new figures from the Pentagon.... More
New York, October 1 (RHC)-- The economic recovery in the United States is still on track, but the labour market is signalling that growth is decelerating in the face of challenges ranging from the spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 to stingier jobless benefits.... More
Ottawa, October 1 (RHC)-- In Canada, a judge has ended an injunction granted to logging company Teal-Jones, which the court says was used to crack down on activists at the Fairy Creek watershed blockade in a way that violated their civil liberties and infringed on press freedom. ... More
Rome, October 1 (RHC)-- On Friday, the Italian Energy Authority ARERA announced that electricity bills will rise by almost 30% while gas bills will increase by over 14%, effective beginning today.... More
Minneapolis, October 1 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Minnesota, Canadian pipeline company Enbridge said construction on the contested Line 3 crude oil pipeline is complete and oil will start flowing as early as Friday. ... More
Washington, October 1 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Maryland, public health activists staged a protest outside the home of White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, calling on the Biden administration to massively ramp up vaccine production and to transfer vaccine technology to the Global South. ... More
Bethel, October 1 (RHC)-- The United States reported nearly 2,500 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, even as hospitalizations and new cases edged down from a peak in early September. ... More
Paris, October 1 (RHC)--France has accused Britain of playing politics with post-Brexit fishing rights after London and the Channel Island of Jersey refused dozens of French fishing boats a license to operate in their territorial waters.... More
Caracas, October 1 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced on Thursday during the XVI Anniversary of the Strategic Operational Command of the FANB (Ceofanb) the infiltration into Venezuelan territory of Colombian armed drug trafficking groups, known as Tancol.... More
London, October 1 (RHC)-- A UK police officer has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping and murdering marketing executive Sarah Everard in a case that shocked Britain and stirred protests over violence against women.... More
Berlin, September 30 (RHC)-- A former secretary for the Schutzstaffel (SS) commander of the Stutthof concentration camp skipped the planned start Thursday of her trial in Germany on more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder, officials said. She was picked up several hours later after the court issued an arrest warrant.... More
Paris, September 30 (RHC)--A French court has handed a one-year prison sentence to former president Nicolas Sarkozy after finding him guilty of illegal campaign financing for massive overspending on his 2012 re-election campaign.... More
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