House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler holds a news conference.  (Photo: Erin Scott/Reuters) 

Washington, September 10 (RHC)-- The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will vote on Thursday to establish rules for hearings on impeachment, escalating the panel's investigations of President Donald Trump even as many Democrats remain wary of the effort.... More


Anti-riot police tear-gassed protesters, including the elderly and children.   (Photo: EFE)

Tegucigalpa, September 10 (RHC)-- Thousands of people protested Monday in the suburbs of the Honduran capital of Tegucigualpa against the construction of a luxury residential project that will endanger the preservation of the Honduran national park, La Tigra, located nearby.... More


Tehran, September 10 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has responded on his official Twitter account to Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to show what the Israeli prime minister has branded as off-limits Iranian nuclear experimentation.... More


Thousands of Yemeni children are recruited to fight along the Saudi border.   (Photo: Reuters)

Sanaa, September 10 (RHC)-- Saudi Arabia takes advantage of Yemen's extremely harsh humanitarian conditions to hire fighters, doing so through human trafficking networks.... More


Brasilia, September 10 (RHC)-- Newly-leaked chats between Brazil’s chief prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol in the Lava Jato case and other federal servants show that the prosecution deliberately released selected audios that only served to reinforce the hypothesis that Lula da Silva had accepted a cabinet position in Dilma Rousseff’s administration to obstruct justice, omitting other audios that proved the contrary. ... More


Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodríguez during a press conference Monday. (Photo: VTV)

Caracas, September 9 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodríguez offered a press conference on Monday, during which he denied a publication made by the magazine Semana this weekend that allegedly linked the Venezuelan Government to irregular groups in Colombia.... More


Salvadoran rape survivor, Evelyn Hernandez.  (Photo: AP)

In El Salvador, 21-year-old rape survivor Evelyn Hernández, who was acquitted last month on aggravated homicide charges for having a stillborn birth in 2016, is poised to face a third trial. ... More


New York, September 9 (RHC)-- In climate news, U.S. scientists say a massive area of the northeastern Pacific Ocean is five degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average, in a warming event rivaling the so-called Blob of 2014. ... More


Gaza City, September 9 (RHC)-- In Gaza, Palestinians mourned the deaths of two Palestinian teenagers shot and killed over the weekend by Israeli forces during protests along the separation barrier with Israel.... More


Santiago de Chile, September 9 (RHC)-- A march for human rights commemorating victims of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, held every September, ended Sunday with brutal police repression and riots in Santiago de Chile.... More


Tehran, September 9 (RHC)-- Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said Sunday that the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1 has finally docked at a Mediterranean port and discharged its oil cargo, despite all the attempts of interference from the United States.... More


Buenos Aires, September 9 (RHC)-- The former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, proposed a rethinking of the situation of the South American country in the face of the financial crisis it is going through and proposed to establish a new social contract to move forward.... More


Washington, September 9 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the 'peace talks' with the Afghan Taliban militant group are “dead” for now and that the administration in Washington will not negotiate any future deal without commitments from the militants.... More


Managua, September 9 (RHC)-- Despite U.S. sanctions, and a year on from opposition violence, a new opinion poll by a private company reveals that over 50 percent of Nicaraguans would vote for the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) if there were an election today.  The poll also revealed an extremely low level of support for the right-wing opposition, with a larger number backing no party.  ... More


Kaleybar is tucked among mountains and Arasbaran forests in northwest Iran.  (Photo: Press TV)

Tehran, September 9 (RHC)-- Tourism in Iran is on the rise, despite Washington's sanctions against the Islamic Republic.... More


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