Tehran, August 21 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has cautioned the United States against attempting to form a naval coalition against his country under the guise of ensuring maritime security in the Persian Gulf.... More
Managua, August 21 (RHC)-- Authorities from the Nicaraguan Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office (PDDH) are assisting victims of the frustrated coup d’état attempt that struck the country last year, according to the head of the organization, Corina Centeno during a Managua news conference.... More
Brasilia, August 21 (RHC)-- Brazil has experienced its highest number of fires in the past seven years, according to official government data. Some 71,497 blazes have hit the country between January and mid-August, and half of these occurred in the protected and megadiverse area of the Amazon.... More
Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has once again boasted that he could “win” the Afghanistan war "in a week" without using nuclear weapons, further insisting that the effort “would have to” involve killing 10 million Afghans.... More
Washington, August 21 (RHC)-- The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of 66 F-16 fighters to Taiwan, in a move expected to anger Beijing. Taiwan will get the latest version of the Lockheed Martin-built fighter, the F-16C/D Block 70, in the $8 billon sale, the State Department announced on Tuesday.... More
Detroit, August 21 (RHC)-- United States Steel Corp will temporarily lay off hundreds of workers at its Great Lakes facility in Michigan in coming weeks, according to a filing the steelmaker made in the State of Michigan, adding to the state's unemployment lines.... More
Caracas, August 20 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro confirmed Tuesday that high ranking officials of the South American country have maintained talks for months with representatives of the United States government, with his authorization.... More
United Nations, August 20 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government has denounced President Donald Trump's threats to establish a naval blockade and the use of force against its population to the United Nations.... More
Rome, August 20 (RHC)-- An Italian prosecutor has ordered the immediate disembarkation of scores of people on board a refugee rescue ship that has been stuck for days off the Italian island of Lampedusa.... More
New York, August 20 (RHC)-- If the United States dares to attack Venezuela, the scope of the ensuing conflict would make the U.S. war of aggression against Vietnam look like a kindergarten party in comparison, American journalist and political analyst Don DeBar says.... More
Brasilia, August 20 (RHC)-- The top leaders of the Workers' Party (PT), the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), the Communist Party (PCdoB) and the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) stated that Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has reached 500 days as a political prisoner at the Curitiba Federal Prison.... More
Washington, August 20 (RHC)-- Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar has said that billions of dollars of U.S. aid to Israel should be tied to its treatment of Palestinians, urging Washington to reconsider the funds to the Tel Aviv regime which is engaged in oppression of the Palestinian people. ... More
New York, August 20 (RHC)-- In the U.S., prosecutors have moved to dismiss the sex trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein following his death, but vowed to continue seeking justice for survivors of his abuse by investigating his co-conspirators. This came as Attorney General William Barr removed the nation’s top prison official, Hugh Hurwitz.... More
Port of Spain, August 20 (RHC)-- The VIII edition of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caribbean, which took place in Trinidad and Tobago, has ended with a call for regional unity that was reached by debating strategies to counter imperialism. ... More
London, August 20 (RHC)-- In a major speech outlining his policy on Brexit, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has slammed Prime Minister Boris Johnson as ‘Britain’s Trump’ and argued that Johnson will allow the US to destroy jobs and the health service if a post-Brexit ‘sweetheart deal’ is signed with Trump. ... More
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