Miami, August 31 (RHC)-- Hurricane Dorian is an extremely dangerous storm and could reach a Category 5 early Sunday morning, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. ... More
Caracas, August 31 (RHC)-- The government of Venezuela denounced a failed series of attacks against several strategic targets in Caracas, conducted from Colombia, according to information revealed by the Vice President and Minister of Communications and Tourism, Jorge Rodriguez.... More
Brasilia, August 31 (RHC)-- Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro made new statements on Friday against the demarcation of indigenous lands in the Amazon saying he intends to review the areas previously assigned to ancestral communities.... More
Caracas, August 31 (RHC)-- Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro announced that the #NoMoreTrump (#NoMasTrump) petition is halfway to its goal of 10 million signatures that will be sent to the U.N. general secretary next month.... More
Kabul, August 31 (RHC)-- The Taliban launched a massive offensive against Afghanistan’s strategic city of Kunduz in the midst of reports that the militant group and the U.S. are close to a "peace" deal. Witnesses said on Saturday gunfire could be heard across Kunduz, the capital of Kunduz province.... More
Miami, August 31 (RHC)-- Hurricane Dorian strengthened and shifted slightly early Saturday, setting it on course to potentially miss a direct hit with Florida and make landfall in the Carolinas.... More
Caracas, August 31 (RHC)-- President Nicolas Maduro says he’s “determined to expand and increase Venezuela’s production” in the face of the U.S. economic blockade being placed on the South American nation. Maduro told Chinese media his country is “resisting” the sanctions by promoting the nation’s agricultural, oil and mining sectors.... More
Brasilia, August 31 (RHC)-- Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro stated on Friday that he requested the U.S. help fight the fires that are currently engulfing the Amazon region. ... More
Brasilia, August 31 (RHC)-- Brazilian police have arrested two owners of the Ouro Verde farm for burning 5,000 hectares of forest within the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area, at the state of Para in the southern part of the Amazon region. Authorities also found workers who remained trapped in their farm in conditions similar to slavery.... More
Washington, August 31 (RHC)-- The United States has blacklisted the Iranian-operated supertanker Adrian Darya 1 and sanctioned its captain. "The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against Adrian Darya 1, an oil tanker transporting 2.1 million barrels of Iranian crude oil ultimately benefiting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF),” the Department said in a statement on Friday.... More
Beijing, August 31 (RHC)-- Recent statements by U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, who accused Beijing of stealing technologies, prompted an angry reaction in China, with the country's ambassador to Ukraine branding them as “slander.”... More
Mexico City, August 31 (RHC)-- Mexican authorities found nearly 5,000 bodies in more than 3,000 clandestine graves between 2006 and August 2019, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) administration said Friday, on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.... More
Miami, August 30 (RHC)-- The rising intensity of Hurricane Dorian, which is moving in a northwestern direction to the Bahamas, has alarmed forecasters who are concerned that Florida will be walloped by strong winds, a storm surge and heavy rain for an extended period.... More
Ottawa, August 30 (RHC)-- As Hurricane Dorian is predicted to hit Florida by Monday, the former prime minister of Canada cheered the fact that President Trump's golf resort at Mar-a-Lago appears to be in its path.... More
Washington, August 30 (RHC)-- The United States government has announced that it did not approve the offer of $20 million in aid to Brazil made by the countries during the G-7 summit last weekend to fight the fires in the Amazon rainforest.... More
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