Florida recounts underway in contested senate and governor races.  Photo: Democracy Now

Miami, November 12 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Florida, vote recounts in the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races are underway.  ... More


Judge halts construction of Keystone XL pipeline.  Photo: File

Helena, November 12 (RHC)-- A federal judge in the U.S. state of Montana has temporarily halted the construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.  ... More


Francisco Franco with Adolfo Hitler.  Photo: Google

Madrid, November 12 (RHC)-- A Madrid court has found a Spanish doctor guilty of stealing and selling a baby during General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, but cannot punish him since the statute of limitations has elapsed.  ... More


 U.S. court rules Donald Trump cannot end DACA.  Photo: AP

Sacramento, November 12 (RHC)-- In immigration news from the United States, a California appeals court has ruled that the Donald Trump administration cannot shut down the DACA program, upholding a federal judge’s ruling earlier this year. ... More


ALBA was founded Cuba and Venezuela as a progressive alternative to the United States-driven Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.  Photo: EFE

Managua, November 9 (RHC)-- Foreign ministers of the member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA) met on Thursday in Managua, Nicaragua for the 17th Ordinary Meeting of the Political Council of the regional organization.  ... More


 'Alaa Abu Sherbin was killed by Israeli fire during a protest near the Gaza fence on November 8, 2018.  Photo: Safa news agency

Gaza City, November 9 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian during clashes with protesters participating in anti-occupation rallies along the fence between the besieged Gaza Strip and Israeli-occupied territories.... More


Demonstrators gathered at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health and Social Development to demand that a food emergency is declared in Argentina.   Photo: T

Buenos Aires, November 9 (RHC)-- Protests continue in Argentina in response to a profound economic crisis, mainly aggravated by the austerity policies implemented by the government but imposed by the International Monetary Fund, the IMF.... More


The file photo of an Iranian oil tanker.  Photo: Press TV

Tehran, November 9 (RHC)-- Iran has lodged a complaint with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) against the U.S. over the re-imposition of sweeping sanctions, which target scores of Iranian ships as part of Washington's much-criticized push to cut off the country's oil exports.... More


Mexican campesino chopping sugar canes in Acatzingo, central Mexico.   Photo: EFE

Mexico City, November 9 (RHC)-- Members of the Zapatista-supported National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and Campesino organizations denounced that the new agrarian bill proposed by the National Renewal Movement ... More


Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd-left) is seen at a ceremony marking the arrival of a German-made submarine in 2016.  Photo: AFP

Tel Aviv, November 9 (RHC)-- Israeli police say they are in possession of sufficient evidence for the attorney general to bring bribery charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's personal lawyer following a graft probe into the regime's purchase of German submarines under a lucrative deal.... More


File photo shows the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Mosul, Iraq, on April 16, 2018.   Photo: Reuters

Baghdad, November 9 (RHC)-- At least three people have been killed and a dozen others wounded after a car bomb exploded near a restaurant in the Iraqi city of Mosul in a rare terrorist attack since Daesh militants were flushed out last year.... More


Polish mayor bans annual far-right march.  Photo: Press TV

Warsaw, November 9 (RHC)-- In Poland, the mayor of Warsaw is banning this year’s annual march of far-right groups. ... More


An Iraqi man inspects a mass grave near the town of Sinjar, situated over 400 kilometers northwest of the capital Baghdad.  Photo: AFP

Geneva, November 8 (RHC)-- The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) says more than 200 mass graves, containing the remains of thousands of people, have been discovered in territories previously controlled by the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Iraq.... More


Fired attorney general Jeff Sessions and Matthew Whitaker.  Photo: Press TV

Washington, November 8 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wednesday, replacing him with a Trump loyalist who has called Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation a “witch hunt.”  This comes a day after Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives. ... More


Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Olga Sanchez Cordero during the Second Pacification and Reconciliation Forum in Mexico City.  Photo: Re

Mexico City, November 8 (RHC)-- In Mexico, the future Minister of Public Security (SSP) Alfonso Durazo has announced that the security plan for the next government led by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ... More


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