Lima, November 30 (RHC)-- At least 8,000 barrels of oil has been spilled in the Peruvian Amazon after pipelines were sabotaged, according to the president of the state oil company, James Atkins.... More
London, November 30 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom is suffering one of the worst knife crime epidemics in recent years with record numbers of fatalities being recorded among the youth in 2018 alone.... More
Geneva, November 30 (RHC)-- In Saudi Arabia, human rights groups are warning that some of the kingdom’s most prominent feminists have been tortured and sexually harassed as they’ve been held for months without charge and without access to a lawyer. ... More
Sanaa, November 30 (RHC)-- In Yemen, a new report by the charity Save the Children estimates 85,000 children under the age of five have died from acute malnutrition brought on by the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war on Yemen. ... More
Buenos Aires, November 29 (RHC)-- Leaders are arriving in Buenos Aires for the latest Group of 20 (G-20) summit, set for this Friday and Saturday. ... More
Washington, November 29 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this week, declaring that the Nicaraguan government "constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."... More
Kabul, November 29 (RHC)-- Airstrikes conducted by the U.S. military have killed at least 30 civilians, including children and women, in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand amid a spike in civilian deaths from aerial attacks.... More
Washington, November 29 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump says he would “totally be willing” to shut down the federal government unless Congress authorizes $5 billion to fund his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.... More
Kabul, November 29 (RHC)-- At least 10 people have been killed and nearly 20 others wounded in a bomb attack on a British security company's compound in the Afghan capital Kabul. ... More
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Washington, November 29 (RHC)-- The White House continues to defend the U.S. Border Patrol for firing tear gas into crowds of migrants -- including mothers and children -- as they tried to cross the U.S. border from Tijuana on Sunday. ... More
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Washington, November 29 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump once again defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying “maybe he did and maybe he didn’t” order the killing of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. ... More
Mexico City, November 29 (RHC)-- Outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Mexico will bestow the country’s highest honor for foreigners on Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, when Kushner arrives for the G-20 talks. ... More
Rio de Janeiro, November 29 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton met Brazil’s far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday to discuss regional security issues and build on the ideological affinity between the two leaders.... More
Mexico City, November 28 (RHC)-- In Mexico, the government of President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reported signaled it will hold Central American migrants on Mexican soil while they wait to hear whether their applications for political asylum are granted by the United States. ... More
Baghdad, November 28 (RHC)-- At least three U.S. soldiers have been killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device went off in central Afghanistan, the NATO mission in the war-torn country says.... More
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