File photo taken on October 27, 2015 migrants walk to the first registration point of the German federal police after they passed the Austrian-German border bri

Vienna, November 1 (RHC)-- Austria has announced it will not sign a United Nations migration pact that is set to be adopted in December, in order to "defend its national sovereignty."... More


 Thousands march in Pittsburgh as Donald Trump visits site of anti-Semitic mass shooting.  Photo: AP

Pittsburgh, November 1 (RHC)-- Thousands of people marched in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh to protest President Donald Trump’s visit to the city and the Tree of Life synagogue, where 11 Jewish worshipers were shot and killed Saturday in what has been described as the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. ... More


Okinawa governor calls U.S. base “disrespectful to our democracy”   Photo: AFP

Tokyo, November 1 (RHC)-- In Japan, the newly elected governor of Okinawa, Denny Tamaki, called Tokyo’s continued construction of a new U.S. military base on Okinawa “disrespectful to our democracy.” ... More


 U.S. special counsel Mueller asks FBI to look into scheme to discredit him.  Photo: AFP

Washington, November 1 (RHC)-- In the U.S., special counsel Robert Mueller has referred allegations of a plot to mount false accusations of sexual misconduct against him to the FBI.  ... More


Migrant caravan traveling through Mexico to the U.S.   Photo: Reuters

Mexico City, October 31 (RHC)-- The first of the three migrant caravans, or Central American Exodus as participants call themselves, is on its way to Juchitan, Oaxaca in southern Mexico to eventually seek asylum in the United States. ... More


 Approval from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is required before the decision goes into effect.  Photo: Reuters

Ramallah, October 31 (RHC)-- The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) will suspend its recognition of Israel and all economic support until the state honors the 1967 borders and Palestine’s claim of statehood. ... More


Chilean President Sebastian Piñera announced the reforms this wee.  Photo: Reuters

Santiago de Chile, October 31 (RHC)-- Opposition parties in Chile and the movement No + Pension Funds Administrators (AFP) have reiterated their rejection of the pension reforms proposed by President Sebastian Piñera. ... More


US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before departing for a rally in Murphysboro, Illinois, on October 27, 2018.  Photo: AFP

Washington, October 31 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump said he will seek to limit the right of citizenship for certain children born in the United States in a new bid to dramatically reshape immigration policies that appeared to run afoul of the U.S. Constitution.... More


Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro (L) and Paulo Chagas, retired General of the Brazilian Army, attend a rally in Taguatinga near Brasilia.   Photo: Reuters

Brasilia, October 31 (RHC)-- Brazil's far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro is likely to tap army generals and an ultra-neoliberal-free-market economist for key roles in his cabinet.... More


Another illegal Israeli settlement being built.  Photo: AFP

Tel Aviv, October 31 (RHC)-- Israeli authorities have decided to confiscate thousands of square meters of private Palestinian land near occupied Jerusalem ... More


Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja'afari.  Photo: Press TV

Damascus, October 30 (RHC)-- Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Ja'afari says the so-called international coalition led by the United States has once again used white phosphorus bombs against Hajin city in Syria’s troubled eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.... More


People walk in a caravan of migrants departing from El Salvador en route to the United States, in San Salvador, El Salvador, October 28, 2018.   Photo: Reuters

San Salvador, October 30 (RHC)-- Inspired by the over 7,000 migrants who have left out of Honduras and Guatemala over the past two weeks, a group of migrants have left El Salvador ... More


People celebrate and wave Catalan separatist flags in front of the Catalan regional government headquarters after the Catalan regional parliament declared indep

Barcelona, October 30 (RHC)-- The city council of Barcelona has issued a declaration denouncing Spanish King Felipe VI’s meddling in the Catalan affairs, reaffirmed its commitment with the Republican values, and called for “the abolition of an outdated and anti-democratic institution such as monarchy.”... More


Caravan of migrants continues through Mexico.  Photo: AFP

Washington, October 30 (RHC)-- The total number of U.S. troops being deployed to the border with Mexico to try to stop a caravan of migrants could be in the thousands, according to a U.S. official, a much higher estimate than the 800 to 1,000 initially forecast.... More


Mourners gather around the bodies of Palestinian boys who were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip frontier, during their funeral in the central G

The Hague, October 30 (RHC)-- The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into an Israeli airstrike that killed three children in the east of Khan Younes in the Southern besieged Gaza strip.... More


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