British Prime Minister Boris Johnson  (Photo: Reuters)

London, August 7 (RHC)-- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has this week taken Britain one step closer to a no-deal Brexit, following Brexit negotiator David Frost’s meeting with EU officials and their reaction to the newly-appointed Brexit negotiator.... More


Caracas, August 7 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says that with the KKK in the White House, the U.S. doesn't want dialogue, they want violence.  The Venezuelan leader sat down with Grayzone journalist Max Blumenthal for an interview on Monday, where he was asked about a number of issues, ranging from the devastating effects of U.S. sanctions to some of the challenges facing the Bolivarian Revolution. ... More


Rome, August 7 (RHC)-- Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini and his far-right League party celebrated the Senate vote in favor of the “Decreto Sicurezza” -- a law that toughens sanctions against humanitarian charities that seek to bring African migrants rescued in the Mediterranean sea to Italy.... More


Brasilia, August 7 (RHC)-- Thousands of Brazilians protested Monday in Sao Paulo against comments by President Jair Bolsonaro in favor of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled the country between 1964 and 1985.... More


Tehran, August 7 (RHC)-- Marking the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan’s Hiroshima, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says that Washington's legacy of targeting civilians lives on, 74 years after it became the only country to ever drop a nuclear bomb.... More


United Nations, August 7 (RHC)-- Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-e Ravanchi has censured the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump over imposing sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, terming the measure as gross violation of international regulations.... More


Tel Aviv, August 7 (RHC)-- Israeli officials have advanced plans for the construction of more than 2,300 settlement homes in West Bank, as the Tel Aviv regime presses ahead with its land expropriation policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.... More


Washington, August 6 (RHC)--U.S. author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel “Beloved” about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first Black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 88, her publisher said on Tuesday.... More


The Venezuelan ambassador to the UN has requested the intervention of the Security Council  (Photo: teleSUR)

United Nations, August 6 (RHC)-- Venezuela has sent a letter to the Security Council of the United Nations and its Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, in which Venezuela urges condemnation of the total economic blockade ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump.... More


Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza  (Photo: teleSUR)

Caracas, August 6 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza strongly denounced the total economic blockade imposed by the administration of Donald Trump by way of an executive order.... More


Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez  (Photo: Google)

Caracas, August 6 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government firmly rejects the blockade ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said Tuesday and defined the blockade as an attack against the entire country.... More


Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- The U.S. Senate has confirmed 13 more of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the federal bench in a flurry of votes before lawmakers left Capital Hill for the August recess.... More


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Montevideo, August 6 (RHC)—The government of Tabare Vazquez in Uruguay on Monday suggested the US government to mind on its own business by issuing a warning to its citizens traveling to the United States after two mass shootings over the weekend that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio.... More


Tokyo, August 6 (RHC)-- The mayor of Hiroshima has renewed a call for the Japanese government to join the United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty, as the city marks another anniversary of the United States’ atomic bombing more than seventy years ago.... More


Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States, stepping up pressure on Caracas with the aim of ousting President Nicolas Maduro.... More


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