Caracas, July 10 (RHC)-- International creditors holding Venezuelan debt pushed back on Juan Guaido’s restructuring plans Tuesday, adding to a series of ongoing national and international setbacks for the opposition lawmaker. Calling for a different “framework for talks and improved communications,” investors holding defaulted bonds seemed to have jumped off Guaido’s ship and now are instead hoping to fight a United States' executive order that would prevent asset seizures by investors, which would mean taking over the refiner Citgo Petroleum Corp.... More
Tehran, July 10 (RHC)-- Iran has awarded dozens of contracts worth $6.2 billion to domestic companies to have oil production increase by 280,000 barrels per day (bpd) as part of a plan entitled “The extra-output scheme.”... More
Bridgetown, July 10 (RHC)-- Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley has issued a statement, saying that her government was ready to host the Venezuelan dialogue efforts between the Venezuelan government and the opposition brokered by the government of Norway.... More
New York, July 10 (RHC)-- Billionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was charged in a Manhattan federal court with sex trafficking and conspiracy. He is accused of sexually assaulting and trafficking dozens of underage girls between 2002 and 2005 at his homes in New York City and Palm Beach, Florida, where he paid them hundreds of dollars to perform sex acts and help recruit other girls for him to abuse. Epstein has pleaded not guilty.... More
Guatemala City, July 10 (RHC)-- Two indigenous rights activists and land protectors have been murdered in eastern Guatemala. Isidro Pérez and Melecio Ramírez were attending a peaceful action organized by the peasants’ rights group CODECA, when 15 armed men stormed in and started shooting at the group.... More
Rome, July 10 (RHC)-- A German rescue ship has picked up 44 people, including babies and children, off the Libyan coast, after they were stranded at sea. The charity vessel, operated by Sea-Eye, recently transferred another 65 migrants to Malta after Italy refused to let the ship enter ts ports.... More
Tehran, July 10 (RHC)-- The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the Iranian Armed Forces’ ground defenses have achieved notable progress, saying the country is today strong enough to defeat the enemies in any war on the ground against the Islamic Republic.... More
Tehran, July 10 (RHC)-- Britain’s seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar last week will not be “unanswered”, Iran’s armed forces chief of staff, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, said on Tuesday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.... More
Washington, July 9 (RHC)-- The acting head of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was ready to start rounding up and deporting 1 million people. ... More
Berlin, July 9 (RHC)-- Germany has rejected a call by the United States to deploy ground troops in Syria, a stance that will most likely anger U.S. President Donald Trump who wants the European country to commit to a bigger military role in the Middle East.... More
London, July 9 (RHC)-- “Inept, dysfunctional, insecure” are some of the words used by the United Kingdom’s Ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, to describe U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration, according to leaked diplomatic memos published by the Daily Mail of London.... More
Beijing, July 9 (RHC)-- China is offering $60 billion U$D in financial support and a debt write-off to impoverished African nations with no strings attached, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday.... More
Brasilia, July 9 (RHC)-- The historic "Music, Education and Culture"(MEC) Radio, Brazil’s first radio station which was founded in 1923 and donated to the federal government in 1936, was shut down by the Brazilian Communications Broadcaster (EBC), as part of the changes made by right-wing resident Jair Bolsonaro.... More
Brasilia, July 9 (RHC)-- In Brazil, conservative magazine "Veja" verified over 600,000 messages leaked by The Intercept and confirmed that they were legitimate. Brazil's "Veja" magazine and The Intercept published information which revealed that former judge Sergio Moro asked public officials not to include evidence against lawmakers to prevent the case against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from being transfered to the Supreme Court, an institution in which he had little-to-no much influence.... More
Rome, July 9 (RHC)-- An Italian court in Rome has sentenced 24 military personnel from Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, and Peru to life imprisonment Monday for disappearing Italians during Operation Condor, during which left-wing activists were hunted down by military dictatorships in South America.... More
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