Washington, January 14 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a key Republican lawmaker and close ally of Donald Trump defended white supremacy while assailing the diversity of the incoming lawmakers in an interview published earlier this week. ... More
Melbourne, January 14 (RHC)-- More than 200 asylum seekers held at a detention center in Australia have launched a hunger strike to protest against their living conditions, detainees and activists say.... More
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San Francisco, January 14 (RHC)-- Civil rights leader Angela Davis has responded to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s decision to revoke a human rights award in her honor over her activism for Palestinian rights and criticism of Israel. ... More
Buenos Aires, January 12 (RHC)-- In Buenos Aires, the Argentinean capital, political parties and social organizations joined union calls for a massive protest against increases in public services rates that were announced by Argentinean President Mauricio Macri.... More
Gaza City, January 12 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian woman and injured at least 25 people during protests along the border between the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied territories.... More
Washington, January 12 (RHC)-- In Washington, DC -- the U.S. capital -- police arrested five activists for holding banners outside the Supreme Court, calling for an end to torture and the closure of the prison at the illegal U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay. ... More
Tampico, January 12 (RHC)-- Mexican authorities have found 21 bodies in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, 15 of them incinerated, in what they believe is the work of organized crime.... More
Washington, January 12 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and fixer Michael Cohen told reporters that he’ll testify to a House of Representatives committee next month about his work for Donald Trump. ... More
Athens, January 12 (RHC)-- German Chancellor Angela Merkel says her country “takes total responsibility” for crimes committed by the Nazis in Greece during the Second World War.... More
Mexico City, January 12 (RHC)--The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, affirmed that the Fourth Transformation of public life has already begun, which he said does not constitute a change of government but of a regime.... More
Tegucigalpa, January 11 (RHC)-- Authorities from Mexico and Central America have met to prepare for the arrival of new migrant caravans that intend to head to the United States, Hector Gandini, the spokesman for the Mexican Ministry of the Interior said.... More
Tehran, January 11 (RHC)-- Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has countered U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's claims that "when America retreats, chaos often follows," saying actually the opposite is true. ... More
Brasilia, January 11 (RHC)-- Brazil’s new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has formally removed the South American country from the UN migration pact in the name of “sovereignty and the preservation of national values.”... More
Washington, January 11 (RHC)-- In the United States, some 800,000 federal workers who’ve been furloughed or forced to work without compensation will receive no paycheck today, as the partial government shutdown stretches into its 21st day with no resolution in sight. ... More
Mexico City, January 11 (RHC)-- Mexico’s Interior Minister Olga Sanchez has announced that 16 political prisoners had been released so far and that the federal government is reviewing the 368 cases of people illegally detained.... More
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