Migrants imprisoned in tent camp.  Photo: AP

Washington, September 17 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the Health and Human Services Department says it will triple the size of the tent camp where migrant children are imprisoned in the desert outside El Paso, Texas. ... More


Washington, September 14 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a widespread backlash after he tried to claim that his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year was “an incredible unsung success.”... More


United Nations, September 14 (RHC)-- World hunger rose in 2017 for a third consecutive year, fueled by conflict and climate change, the United Nations warns, jeopardizing a global goal to end the scourge by 2030.... More


 U.S. attorney, Andrew Hall, says Donald Trump will be impeached.  Photo: Google

Washington, September 12 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Richard Nixon’s top adviser in the Watergate scandal Andrew Hall has said that President Donald Trump will "undoubtedly be impeached.”  Hall made the remarks in a recent interview with The Independent, where he said he is watching history repeat itself with Trump as more of his aides get nabbed in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into the alleged Russian election interference in the 2016 presidential election. ... More


Trump White House plans to roll back regulations limiting methane gas emissions.  Photo: EFE

Washington, September 12 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration is planning to make it easier for oil and gas companies to pollute the atmosphere with methane gas, one of the most powerful greenhouse gases contributing to climate change.... More


British Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Lidington.  Photo: AFP

London, September 12 (RHC)-- British authorities have announced that November will be the deadline for finalizing a deal on the country’s departure from the European Union.  ... More


NASA handout photo shows a view from the International Space Station of Hurricane Florence off the US ٍٍٍEast Coast in the Atlantic Ocean, on September 10, 2018

Wilmington, September 12 (RHC)-- In the U.S., the National Weather Service is describing the massive Category 4 Hurricane Florence currently barreling toward the coast of the Carolinas as "the storm of a lifetime.”... More


Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki attends the opening of a meeting of the Arab League's foreign ministers in Cairo, Egypt, on September 11, 2018.  Ph

Cairo, September 12 (RHC)-- Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki says a decision by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump to halt funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was an attack on international law. ... More


 Former Brazilian president and Workers' Party (PT) co-founder, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gives a speech with Fernando Haddad.   Photo: EFE

Brasilia, September 12 (RHC)-- Former Brazilian president and Workers' Party (PT) co-founder Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Tuesday handed over his presidential candidacy to his vice presidential running mate, Fernando Haddad.  ... More


 Marchers in the town of Sololá begin their march to the capital of Guatemala City.   Photo: Twitter / @BrendaH2O66 .

Guatemala City, September 11 (RHC)-- Hundreds of Indigenous people have blocked several important highways in Guatemala to reject President Jimmy Morales’ decision to ban members of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), including its director, Colombian Ivan Velasquez. ... More


 Puerto Ventanas Refinery, near Quintero, in Ventanas, Chile September 1, 2018.   Photo: Reuters

Santiago de Chile, September 11 (RHC)-- A march that began peacefully in the small town of Quintero, Chile about 145 kilometers northwest of the capital of Santiago, ended in a crackdown by national police with a reputation for violence and corruption. ... More


An officer sent to break up the peaceful anti-mining protest in Guazapares, Chihuahua, Mexico.  Photo: Facebook

Mexico City, September 11 (RHC)-- A group of 130 security officers from Chihuahua in Mexico broke up a sit-in protesting a Canadian mine, shooting into the air and arresting two of their leaders late last month.  Canada's Coeur Mexicana mining company had reached a deal with the people of Guazapares, a small town in the Tarahumara highlands in northern Mexico, to use their territory and extract silver.... More


Daniel Ortega warns of U.S. military intervention against Nicaragua.  Photo: teleSUR

Managua, September 11 (RHC)-- Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says he is open to meeting U.S. leader Donald Trump at the United Nations Security Council meeting this month despite that fact that he feels “under threat” from the country’s military amid interventionist comments and actions from the U.S. along with its regional right-wing governments. ... More


 White House to close Palestine Liberation Organization’s Washington office.  Photo: Google

Washington, September 11 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration has announced that the U.S. will shutter the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Washington office, part of a pressure campaign to supposedly bring the Palestinians to the negotiating table for Middle East peace talks as envisaged by President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner. ... More


Study shows labor protests and strikes in Argentina on the rise amid government mismanagement.  Photo: EFE

Buenos Aires, September 11 (RHC)-- In Argentina, a study has revealed that the number and intensity of labor protests, demonstrations and strikes have increased over the past, with nearly half of them resulting from layoffs and the freezing of wages and hiring.... More


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