Caracas, February 19 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says that the Bolivarian state is willing to establish a “frank and open dialogue,” with the political opposition. Maduro said: "I believe in frank and open dialogue as the only way for the tranquility and prosperity of the Homeland. Over the past six years, I have made more than 400 calls and I will always do it for the love of Venezuela." ... More
Damascus, February 19 (RHC)-- At least 15 people, mostly civilians, have been killed and scores of others injured in twin explosions in the militant-held northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, medics and witnesses say. They added that the first blast occurred in a main street in the provincial capital on Monday after an explosive device planted under a parked car detonated. ... More
Washington, February 19 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump is facing mounting legal and political challenges after he declared a national emergency in an attempt to circumvent Congress and build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. ... More
Vatican City, February 19 (RHC)-- Pope Francis defrocked U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after the Vatican found him guilty of sex crimes against children and adults, including using confessions to solicit sex. McCarrick was once considered to be the most powerful man in the U.S. Catholic Church. ... More
Burlington, February 19 (RHC)-- U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has announced he will run again for president in the 2020 elections, calling President Donald Trump a "pathological liar" and an “embarrassment.” ... More
Washington, February 19 (RHC)-- U.S. State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert has removed herself from consideration to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, according to a statement released in Washington, DC. ... More
New Orleans, February 19 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Louisiana, a judge handed down a 10-year prison sentence to Roland Bourgeois Jr., a white man who shot three Black men in 2005 as they were trying to leave Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. ... More
Banki, February 19 (RHC)-- Two Nigerian soldiers have been killed and six others injured when Boko Haram militants attacked a military post near the Cameroon border, security sources say, days before rescheduled presidential elections.... More
Jerusalem, February 19 (RHC)-- Israeli regime forces have resealed one of the al-Aqsa Mosque's gates in the occupied old city of East Jerusalem after a group of Palestinian protesters broke the lock and opened the gate for worshipers.... More
San Juan, February 18 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Puerto Ricans, joined by formerly incarcerated revolutionary activist Oscar Lopez Rivera, have held a demonstration in front of the Federal Court, in Old San Juan, to voice opposition to a U.S. military intervention in Venezuela. ... More
United Nations, February 18 (RHC)-- The United Nations has warned that the situation in war-ravaged Yemen is further deteriorating as the Arab country is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world. ... More
Ramallah, February 18 (RHC)-- Three advocacy groups say Israeli forces detained more than 500 Palestinians, including dozens of children and women, last month. The detentions in January were made in occupied Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society, the prisoners and ex-prisoner affairs committee, and the prisoners’ rights group Addameer.... More
Damascus, February 18 (RHC)-- The Warsaw Conference, organized by the U.S. in the Polish capital on last week, has outraged observers in the Arab world who believe their leaders attended the conference merely as “extras” in a pre-planned scenario for normalization of Israeli-Arab ties.... More
Sofia, February 18 (RHC)-- Bulgarian authorities say they have blocked money transfers out of a number of bank accounts that have received millions of euros from the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company, PDVSA.... More
Tokyo, February 18 (RHC)-- Official campaigning is underway on Japan's island of Okinawa for a referendum on a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. airbase, which has long been a source of concern for residents on the tiny island. According to reports, the non-binding vote is scheduled to be held next Sunday, February 24th.... More
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