London, February 23 (RHC)-- In London, hundreds of free speech activists Saturday marched from the Australia House to Parliament Square in support of Julian Assange who faces a court that will decide whether or not he'll be extradited to the United States.... More


Santo Domingo, February 23 (RHC)-- Citizens of the Dominican Republic participated Saturday in a national 'cacerolazo' to demand transparent elections after the municipal elections were suspended last week due to problems in electronic voting, four hours after the elections began.... More


Montevideo, February 22 (RHC)-- Uruguay's President-elect Luis Lacalle has decided not to invite the diplomatic representatives of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua to his inauguration ceremony on March 1st.... More


Managua, February 22 (RHC)-- Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega has inaugurated the new mandate of the Army's Chief Julio César Avilés, during a ceremony commemorating the 86th anniversary of the death of the revolutionary leader, General Augusto Cesar Sandino.... More


Berlin, February 22 (RHC)-- In Germany, thousands of people joined vigils across the country, one day after a racist far-right gunman shot and killed 10 people, most of them at a shisha bar and a cafe in the Frankfurt suburb of Hanau. ... More


London, February 22 (RHC)-- In Britain, a white man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a man in his seventies was stabbed while he attended one of London’s biggest mosques.  The man was taken to the hospital, where he is now in stable condition. ... More


London, February 22 (RHC)-- British government officials are planning to close the United Kingdom’s borders to what they describe as “unskilled workers” and people who can’t speak English. ... More


Cuidad Juarez, February 22 (RHC)-- In Mexico, a radio broadcaster was shot to death earlier this week outside her home in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.  She was known as Bárbara Greco on air. ... More


Moscow, February 22 (RHC)-- In climate news, a top Russian government scientist is warning that human-driven climate change is behind unprecedented spring-like temperatures recorded this winter. ... More


Seattle, February 22 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Seattle, Washington, 28 climate activists were arrested after they held a sit-in protest at a downtown Chase Bank branch and refused to leave. ... More


Tel Aviv, February 22 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he is pushing ahead with the construction of 5,000 new illegal settler homes in key areas of occupied East Jerusalem, where critics say additional building could cut Palestinian residents off from the rest of the occupied West Bank.... More


Brasilia, February 22 (RHC)-- In Brazil, businessman Lindolfo Antônio Alves Neto, partner and co-owner of the internet marketing company Yacows, admitted that his company participated in Jair Bolsonaro's campaign strategies to advertise on WhatsApp.... More


Students at a global climate strike in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  September 20, 2019.  (Photo: EFE)

Kampala, February 22 (RHC)-- People from all over the world are expected to participate in the 2020 Africa Climate Week (ACW), which is to be held in Kampala, Uganda, to discuss ways to implement the Paris Agreement.... More


Edmonton, February 22 (RHC)-- A group of 20 people in Edmonton, Alberta, erected a blockade of a Canadian National Railway line, temporarily blocking train traffic in the latest protest against the Coastal GasLink.  ... More


Sacramento, February 22 (RHC)-- California has formally apologized for its role in imprisoning more than 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II.... More


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