Caracas, August 5 (RHC)-- Venezuela has intercepted two planes, loaded with drugs, coming from Colombia. The Comprehensive Aerospace Defense Command (Codai) belonging to the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) announced that it was able to intercept the aircraft with illegal substances, originating from Colombia, in Venezuelan territorial airspace.... More
El Paso, August 5 (RHC)-- U.S. Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, who represents El Paso, Texas -- the site of a recent mass shooting that left at least 20 people dead -- said that President Donald Trump was "not welcome" in her city if he came to visit because of his provocative rhetoric about Hispanics and immigrants.... More
San Juan, August 5 (RHC)-- In Puerto Rico, Pedro Pierluisi was sworn in as the new governor, after his disgraced predecessor, "Ricky" Ricardo Rosselló, officially stepped down Friday following weeks of mass protests. However, the Senate has not yet voted to approve Pierluisi as the new governor, leading many Puerto Ricans to question his legitimacy.... More
Washington, August 5 (RHC)-- United States Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he is in favor of placing ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles in Asia, just days after the United States pulled itself from a Cold War era arms control pact.... More
Tel Aviv, August 5 (RHC)-- Avigdor Lieberman, who was formerly minister of military affairs under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says the premier tells lies “every day, every hour” and is unfit for office.... More
Sanaa, August 5 (RHC)-- Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and the United Nations food agency announce an agreement to resume the delivery of food aid, which has been suspended for the past six weeks in some areas of the Arab country.... More
Brasilia, August 5 (RHC)-- The Brazilian Socialism and Liberty Party’s (Psol) elected members at the House of Representatives have spoken out against the new appointments by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to the Commission of Political Dead and Missing (CEMDP). ... More
Washington, August 5 (RHC)-- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has raised concerns about the Pentagon’s use of surveillance balloons to monitor residents of certain states in the U.S. Midwest.... More
Ramallah, August 5 (RHC)-- Human rights groups have criticized American tech giant Microsoft for funding an Israeli facial recognition company, which is spying on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.... More
Tehran, August 5 (RHC)-- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has condemned the UK for aiding and abetting Washington's “economic terrorism” against Iran. "The UK government has been complicit in the U.S.’s economic terrorism," he told foreign and domestic reporters in Tehran on Monday.... More
Houston, August 5 (RHC)-- In the United States, a worker at the Baytown-Texas ExxonMobil plant, Alvaro Coronel, is suing the company after its clinic considered the injuries he suffered during a recent explosion at the plant, as similar to “a sunburn.”... More
New York, August 5 (RHC)-- Honduran right-wing President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been implicated as a co-conspirator in a drug trafficking and money laundering case against his brother, according to a document filed in New York’s district court. ... More
Caracas, August 4 (RHC)-- Following U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of imposing a tougher economic blockade on Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro countered with decrying all ways of U.S. intervention in this Latin American country.... More
Mexico City, August 4 (RHC)-- Two Mexican journalists were murdered in the space of 24 hours this weekend, local media reported, identifying the victims as Zihuatanejo-based editor, Edgar Alberto Nava Lopez, and Veracruz reporter, Jorge Celestino Ruiz.... More
Tehran, August 4 (RHC)-- Iranian Revolutionary Guards seized a foreign oil tanker in the Gulf that was smuggling fuel and detained seven crewmen, Iran's state media reported Sunday, in a show of power amid heightened tension with the West.... More
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