Geneva, June 11 (RHC)-- The UN nuclear agency's chief says he is "worried about increasing tensions" over Iran's nuclear program, calling for de-escalation efforts as Tehran expresses dissatisfaction with European actions to offset the effects of the US withdrawal from a 2015 international deal.... More
Ramallah, June 11 (RHC)-- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has lashed at U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman after he said the Tel Aviv regime has the right to annex “some” of the West Bank, arguing such comments amount to “legitimization of settlement expansion activities” in the occupied territories.... More
Athens, June 11 (RHC)-- Greece's president has accepted a request from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to dissolve parliament, formally triggering a snap election that Tsipras has called for next month after badly losing a vote for European parliament.... More
Washington, June 11 (RHC)-- The Washington Post is reporting that the White House blocked a senior State Department intelligence analyst from issuing a testimony describing climate change as “possibly catastrophic” to the House Intelligence Committee.... More
Santiago de Chile, June 11 (RHC)-- Chilean teachers’ strike has entered the second week due to lack of government responses to their demands for better working conditions and structural changes.... More
Mexico City, June 11 (RHC)-- A total of 24 migrants have died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody according to an NBC News analysis of federal data.... More
Brasilia, June 10 (RHC)-- Glenn Greenwald's publication "The Intercept Brazil" has revealed an extensive and hard-hitting expose on the political motivations behind Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato) task force against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the Workers' Party (PT), as well as the unethical involvement of the current Minister of Justice Sergio Moro.... More
Washington, June 10 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump suggested again Sunday that his administration could possibly renegotiate the deal just signed on Friday with Mexico about tariffs, but that he was confident Mexico would do what is needed to make sure asylum seekers cannot reach U.S. territory in exchange for lower tariffs.... More
Caracas, June 10 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced over the weekend that the government is opening several bridges along its border with Colombia. The Simon Bolivar, Union and Santander bridges in Venezuela had been ordered closed to traffic since February 22nd when the Colombian government tried to allow ‘humanitarian aid’ from the United States to illegally enter the country from its border city of Cucuta.... More
Tegucigalpa, June 10 (RHC)-- Another Southern Command brigade of U.S. Navy and Marine soldiers arrived in Honduras last week as part of what the U.S. Embassy in Honduras has called "a multi-national disaster response task force."... More
Brasilia, June 10 (RHC)-- In a statement issued by the Central Bank of Brazil, a proposal made by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that promotes a "monetary union" with Argentina was rejected.... More
Washington, June 10 (RHC)-- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged an end to the trade war between the United States and China after it found that the current and threatened US-China tariffs could cut the global economic output by 0.5 percent next year.... More
Washington, June 8 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the tariffs his administration was planning to begin collecting on all Mexican goods starting Monday have been "indefinitely suspended" since Mexico has agreed to take measures to, his in words, "stem the tide of migration through Mexico."... More
St. Petersburg, June 8 (RHC)-- The United States is using energy as a political weapon, says the head of Russian oil giant Rosneft, describing the U.S. shale oil push as an “era of energy colonialism” for other countries.... More
Santiago de Chile, June 8 (RHC)-- The Chilean Teachers Association has called for a massive demonstration in the capital, Santiago de Chile, to demand the government address the public education crisis, to retract the curricular change which makes the subjects of history, physical education and arts optional and improve the working conditions of teachers in Chile.... More
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