Tel Aviv, August 22 (RHC)-- An Israeli right-wing alliance has unveiled a plan on the construction of more than 100,000 new settler units in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, irrespective of international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land expropriation and settlement expansion policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.... More


Quito, August 22 (RHC)-- The U.S. governmental organization USAID has announced that they will return to Ecuador following their expulsion in 2014, and held meetings with political groups at the U.S. embassy in Quito on Tuesday. Former President Rafael Correa had expelled them in 2014 for interfering in national politics by funding right-wing opposition groups.... More


El Paso, August 22 (RHC)--On the U.S. border with Mexico, Customs and Border Protection said it will not vaccinate migrant families ahead of the upcoming flu season. Doctors recently sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to investigate health conditions at migrant jails along the border after they say at least three children have died from the flu.... More


Brasilia, August 22 (RHC)-- The Foreign and Defense Committee of the Brazilian Congress has approved, by majority vote, the commercial use by the United States of the Alcântara Base along Brazil's north Atlantic coast.... More


Athens, August 22 (RHC)-- Greece will not provide assistance in delivering oil to Syria by an Iranian tanker now sailing eastward through the Mediterranean, Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said Wednesday.... More


Brasilia, August 22 (RHC)-- Right-wing Brazilian attorneys are trying to lock up the former presidential candidate of the Worker's Party, Fernando Haddad, accusing him of false charges.... More


Brasilia, August 21 (RHC)-- In Brazil, public outrage is mounting over massive wildfires that have consumed parts of the Amazon for several weeks.  The hashtag #PrayForAmazonia trended Tuesday as images of the raging blazes circulated on social media.  The skies over the city of São Paulo went dark for around an hour during the middle of the day Monday, after winds carried in smoke from the forest fires over 1,500 miles away. ... More


Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen  (Photo: File)

Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has called the Danish head of state "nasty" after she rebuffed his idea of buying Greenland.  Trump lashed out at her just hours after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she was "sorry" that Trump had abruptly called off a state visit to Denmark.... More


Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration has announced new rules allowing authorities to detain migrant children for longer and in potentially even more dangerous conditions. ... More


Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte   (Photo: File)

Rome, August 21 (RHC)-- Italy has been plunged into a political crisis as Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced he was resigning Tuesday.  He made the announcement after far-right Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini withdrew support for the right-wing populist coalition in power and called for a no-confidence vote. ... More


Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- The U.S. president is ramping up his attacks on Congressmembers Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar after Israel recently barred them from entering the country at his urging.  ... More


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Havana, Aug 21 (Prensa Latina) Lies and scapegoats are the fundamental everage of Donald Trump''s administration, Brasilian political scientist, Emir Sader, noted in an article published in Havana.... More


Moscow, August 21 (RHC)-- Venezuela's executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, met Wednesday in Moscow with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, with the intention of strengthening economic and cooperation agreements between the two countries.... More


Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- Less than two weeks before his scheduled trip to Denmark, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he has postponed his visit to Copenhagen after the Danish Prime Minister disputed his interest in buying Greenland as "absurd."... More


Tehran, August 21 (RHC)-- The crew of Iranian oil tanker are fixing the vessel which broke down in the Red Sea, an official at the state-run National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) said Wednesday, noting that both the ship and crew are safe and stable.... More


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