New Delhi, September 12 (RHC)-- An Indian refiner says it is scouring the world for ultra-heavy crude oil which is becoming short in supply because of intensified US sanctions on Iran and Venezuela.... More
Washington, September 12 (RHC)-- The U.S. Supreme Court has granted a request by President Donald Trump's administration to fully enforce a new rule that would curtail asylum applications by immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, a key element of his hard-line immigration policies.... More
United Nations, September 12 (RHC)-- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has censured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election pledge to annex the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, terming it as a gross violation of international law.... More
Buenos Aires, September 12 (RHC)-- Several thousand protesters camped Wednesday in downtown Buenos Aires to demand Argentina declare a food emergency as the economic crisis deepened just weeks ahead of the presidential election.... More
Geneva, September 12 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza issued a statement Wednesday to denounce the intention to activate the Inter-American Reciprocal Assistance Treaty (TIAR) against Venezuela, pushed by a group of governments of the Organization of American States. ... More
Nassau, September 12 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Bahamian evacuees currently in Nassau, Great Abaco, and Florida have expressed their intentions of migrating to the United States due to the scarce probability of reconstruction and unlikely effective action from authorities in their homeland, yet due to Donald Trump's anti-migrant policy their plans might face obstacles. ... More
Washington, September 12 (RHC)-- A former top official in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, has been arrested for allegedly taking bribes from the head of a company who received $1.8 billion in federal contracts to repair Puerto Rico’s power grid after Hurricane Maria devastated the island in 2017. ... More
San Francisco, September 12 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, lawmakers have passed landmark legislation forcing companies like Uber and Lyft to treat contract workers like employees. ... More
Tokyo, September 12 (RHC)-- Fallout from the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan continues eight years after the triple meltdown. ... More
London, September 12 (RHC)-- Scotland’s highest court has declared British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks to be unlawful “because it had the purpose of stymying Parliament.” ... More
Ramallah, September 12 (RHC)-- When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to annex nearly one-third of the occupied West Bank, reaction was swift and condemnatory. ... More
Tehran, September 11 (RHC)-- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has informed his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that there is no point in talks with the United States as long as it keeps sanctions against the Islamic Republic in place. ... More
Nassau, September 11 (RHC)-- Bahamian officials said on Wednesday that 2,500 people have been registered as missing in the wake of the devastating Hurricane Dorian, a count they said may include people who have fled to shelters around the islands.... More
Gaza City, September 11 (RHC)-- Israeli fighter jets have launched new air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip, targeting several positions in Beit Lahia in the northern part of the enclave. No casualties have been reported yet following the Wednesday attacks, which Israel claims were conducted in response to alleged rocket attacks from the enclave.... More
Bogota, September 11 (RHC)-- Colombia has been hiding the fact that it has Latin America’s largest mass graves according to a recent finding by the country’s war crimes tribunal. It also said that Colombia may have been falsifying homicide rates for propaganda. ... More
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