Google drops bid for Pentagon project under workers' pressure.  Photo: Google

New York, October 15 (RHC)-- Google has announced that it will not compete for a $10 billion project aimed at creating a cloud computing system that would expand the Pentagon’s ability to share data and wage war more effectively.... More


Acting EPA head Andrew Wheeler amplified racist and conspiracy posts on social media.  Photo: AFP

Washington, October 15 (RHC)-- The Huffington Post is reporting that Andrew Wheeler, the acting head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, regularly engaged with right-wing conspiracy accounts on social media and “liked” a racist post featuring the Obamas in 2013.  ... More


“Nuns on the Bus” launch U.S. tour for tax justice.  Photo: Democracy Now

San Francisco, October 15 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, the group of activist Catholic nuns known as “Nuns on the Bus” have launched a countrywide tour under the banner of a “Tax Justice Truth Tour.”... More


Pope Francis accepts resignation of Washington, DC archbishop in sex abuse crisis

Vatican City, October 13 (RHC)-- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl as archbishop of Washington, D.C., the Vatican said on Friday, making him one of the most senior Catholic figures to step down in a worldwide sexual abuse crisis.... More


Lima, October 13 (RHC)-- Peru's Congress has given a lifeline to former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori by voting to approve a bill, which would allow prisoners over the age of 65 to serve their sentences under house arrest and electronic surveillance.... More


New York, October 13 (RHC)-- Facebook and Twitter have once again banned numerous alternative political and anti-establishment pages and users on the pretext of platform policy misuse regulations.  ... More


Gaza City, October 13 (RHC)-- At least six Palestinians have been killed and 112 others injured by Israeli fire during anti-occupation protests at the border of the besieged Gaza Strip with the occupied territories.... More


Venezuelan foreign minister condemns Germany's subordination to U.S. hostility.  Photo: teleSUR

Caracas, October 12 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has encouraged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to use her country's power to end the United States-led economic blockade of the South America country... More


Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.  Photo: AFP

United Nations, October 12 (RHC)-- Russia has strongly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for asking the international community to recognize the regime’s claim to “sovereignty” over the occupied side of Syria’s Golan Heights... More


Human rights activists protest against a ruling granting parole to agents of the Chilean dictatorship.  Photo: Reuters

Santiago de Chile, October 12 (RHC)-- Chile’s Court of Appeals sentenced four former agents of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship to five years and one day in prison for the kidnapping and disappearance of student and left-wing activist Gabriela Arredondo in 1974.... More


File photo shows a sign outside of a migrant detention center in Harmondsworth near Heathrow Airport.  Photo: Reuters

London, October 12 (RHC)-- An investigation into the situation of migrants whose asylum applications are being reviewed in the UK suggests that British authorities detain them unlawfully and for indefinite periods of time.... More


Remnants of Hurricane Michael soak southeastern United States.  Photo: Democracy Now

Atlanta, October 12 (RHC)-- At least 11 people have died in the U.S. after Hurricane Michael slammed into Florida and Georgia as a Category 4 storm.... More


WSJ endorses far-Right Brazilian presidential candidate Bolsonaro.  Photo: Google

Brasilia, October 12 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the newspaper The Wall Street Journal has endorsed Brazil's right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, despite his long history of making racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments, as well as openly praising Brazil’s military dictatorship. ... More


 Mexican women and activists march to condemn disappearances, murders of 20 women.  Photo: La Jornada

Mexico City, October 11 (RHC)-- Over 1,500 women marched through the streets of the Ecatepec neighborhood of Jardines de Morelos in Mexico to condemn the disappearance and murder of at least 20 women from the municipality. ... More


Eight dead, 25 missing as refugee boat sinks off western Turkey.  Photo: Reuters

Ankara, October 11 (RHC)-- Eight people drowned after a boat filled with refugees sank off the western coast of Turkey and another 25 were missing, the Turkish coast guard announced.... More


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