Tehran, August 2 (RHC)-- Iran’s foreign minister has dismissed his U.S. counterpart’s “empty and disingenuous” offers to visit Iran and have an interview with the country’s state TV, daring him to accept any of the many interview requests from Iranian reporters.... More


Washington, August 2 (RHC)-- U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton has confirmed reports that his boss, President Donald Trump, is going to authorize a 90-day extension of sanction waivers against Iran, allowing the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany -- the remaining signatories of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal -- to continue their civilian nuclear cooperation with the Islamic Republic... More


Brasilia, August 2 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has openly criticized the 2014 Constitutional Amendment which orders the expropriation of properties of those landowners whose activities occur through "work analogous to slave labor."... More


Caracas, August 2 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) denounced Thursday that a U.S. Navy EP-3E Aries II electronic spy aircraft entered the Maiquetia airspace area, near Caracas, on Wednesday, according to a report from Venezuela's Strategic Operational Command (Ceofanb).... More


Washington, August 1 (RHC)-- The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in the latest move by the U.S. to ratchet up tensions after the Trump administration backed out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.... More


Ramallah, August 1 (RHC)-- Israel has reportedly approved plans for the construction of 6,000 new settler units in the occupied West Bank, in flagrant defiance of international outcry over the Tel Aviv regime’s settlement expansion policies in the Palestinian territories.... More


Moscow, August 1 (RHC)-- Russia has announced that it will not attend a meeting sponsored by the so-called Lima Group to discuss Venezuela. Recently, Peru invited China, Russia, Cuba and the United States -- among other countries -- to discuss the situation in Venezuela in Lima on August 6th. ... More


Brasilia, August 1 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s environmental deregulation and new free trade deals would see the world consuming toxic pesticides that are banned in most countries, Oliver Tickell of the Green Economic Institute warned Tuesday in an interview with RT.... More


Warsaw, August 1 (RHC)-- Germany has officially turned down a request by the United States to join its international naval force, which is supposed to protect vessels from an alleged Iranian threat as they pass through the Strait of Hormuz.... More


Washington, August 1 (RHC)-- The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly seeking up to a five-fold increase in Japan’s spending on American military forces deployed to the Asian country.... More


Kabul, July 31 (RHC)-- A roadside bomb in Afghanistan has killed at least 34 people and wounded 10 others, with the casualties being mostly women and children.... More


Caracas, July 31 (RHC)-- Diosdado Cabello, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), expressed his concern over the killing of six campesinos by far-right paramilitaries in the Barinas state at the Colombia-Venezuela border area.... More


Ramallah, July 31 (RHC)-- Twenty Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have started a hunger strike, joining nine others who have been refusing food for a month in protest against Israel’s administrative detention.... More


Guatemala City, July 31 (RHC)-- Guatemala’s Human Rights Prosecutor Jordan Rodas has filed an urgent appeal to the Constitutional Court to curb the “Safe Third Country” (STC) agreement signed by President Jimmy Morales administration in Washington, D.C., on July 26th.... More


Tehran, July 31 (RHC)-- Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has offered quick history lessons to U.S. President Donald Trump -- known for his aversion to reading -- and advised him to spurn the “fake” information that a group of hawkish politicians provide him with.... More


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