Union members gather inside Paris public transports operator headquarters La Maison de la RATP in Paris (Photo: AFP)

Paris, September 13 (RHC)-- Paris metro and other public transport workers walked off the job Friday over a planned pension overhaul, sparking huge traffic jams and forcing many people to stay home for the duration of the one-day strike action.... More


Caracas, September 13 (RHC)-- Venezuela will present more than 12 million signatures collected in Venezuela and around the world to the United Nations later this month.... More


Santiago de Chile, September 13 (RHC)-- As Chileans remembered the victims of one of Latin America’s deadliest dictatorships, the right-wing national newspaper ‘El Mercurio’ published Wednesday a page-long insert justifying the dictatorship, starting with the headline that read: "On September 11, 1973, Chile was saved from becoming like Venezuela.”... More


Police try to prevent social organizations from camping in Buenos Aires.  (Photo: EFE)

Buenos Aires, September 13 (RHC)-- Argentina's police cracked down on members of social organizations who gathered in downtown Buenos Aires with the intention of camping at the city's most famous street, the 9 de Julio Avenue.... More


Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard at the National Palace in Mexico City.  (Photo: EFE)

Mexico City, September 13 (RHC)-- Mexico's Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrad reported on Thursday that his country strongly rejects the decision taken by 12 countries which invoked the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR) to promote armed action against Venezuela. For such a decision means a threat to any other Latin American country. ... More


Laredo, September 13 (RHC)-- At the U.S. southern border, the first immigration court hearings of Trump’s so-called Remain in Mexico program began Wednesday in large tents in Laredo and Brownsville, Texas. ... More


Bogota, September 13 (RHC)-- In Colombia, another candidate in the municipal elections has been killed.  Hernando Orley García Vásquez, who was running for mayor of a town in the region of Antioquia, was shot 13 times.  He died as he was transported to Medellín for treatment. ... More


Washington, September 13 (RHC)-- In Washington, D.C., families of passengers who died in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 marked the six-month anniversary of the disaster by demanding the FAA deny Boeing a recertification of its 737 MAX airliner.  All 157 people aboard the Ethiopian Airlines flight were killed after the plane’s software put it into a dive that the pilots were unable to recover from. ... More


Juan Guaido with known members of Colombian paramilitaries.  (Photo: Twitter / @wilcan91)

Caracas, September 12 (RHC)-- A Colombian human rights NGO has reported that a known paramilitary group, involved in the drugs trade, helped Juan Guaido cross the Venezuelan-Colombian border back in February so that he could attend Richard Branson’s “Venezuela Aid Live” concert in Cucuta.... More


Miami, September 12 (RHC)-- In the Bahamas, authorities have published a list of 2,500 people who went missing after Hurricane Dorian ravaged the island nation last week as a Category 5 storm.  The official death toll stands at 50, but Prime Minister Hubert Minnis has warned that the number is likely to soar. ... More


Washington, September 12 (RHC)-- On Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, two young immigrants testified that the Donald Trump administration’s move to deport non-citizens with medical conditions is a virtual death sentence. ... More


Nassau, September 12 (RHC)– Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis says a national day of mourning must be held to properly mourn those who died as a result of Hurricane Dorian.... More


Bridgetown, September 12 (RHC)– Upon recognizing that the growing intensity of weather systems in the Caribbean is the new norm, Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley stressed that the way business is done in the region has to change.... More


Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (Photo by AFP)

Tehran, September 12 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the "B-Team" once facilitated the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC), and is now pushing the White House to drive up economic terrorism against Iran.... More


New York, September 12 (RHC)-- Nearly 24 million children living in armed conflict zones will be in an urgent need of mental health assistance, according to a report published by the Save the Children Fund.... More


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