Argentinean president Mauricio Macri.  Photo: EFE

Buenos Aires, September 7 (RHC)-- Argentinean authorities are announcing additional measures that President Mauricio Macri hopes will end the country's economic downward spiraling, including increasing farm export taxes.... More


Israeli planes hit targets in Syria.  Photo: Reuters

Damascus, September 7 (RHC)-- Israeli planes targeted military positions in Syria, but Syrian air defenses confronted and downed some of the rockets, state news agency SANA reported.  Citing a military source, SANA said Israeli aircraft had targeted "our military positions in the provinces of Tartous and Hama." ... More


Rafael Correa

Quito, September 7 (RHC)-- Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa reacted to the announcement by the national government of possible sanctions against him for mismanagement, during his tenure, of the case against the US oil company Chevron-Texaco.... More


President Hassan Rouhani,Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and  Russian President Vladimir Putin. RT Photo

Tehran, September 7 (RHC)--   The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey are meeting Friday in Tehran to discuss the war in Syria, with all eyes on a possible military offensive to retake the last rebel-held bastion of Idlib.... More


Washington, September 7 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a new book has revealed that Donald Trump demanded the assassination of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after a 2017 chemical attack that Washington blamed on Damascus.... More


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Brasilia, September 6 (RHC)-- Brazilian far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed in the abdomen while campaigning on Thursday, and Globo TV reported he was taken to a hospital in Juiz de For a for surgery.... More


Michel Temer. File Photo

Brazilia, September 6 (RHC) -- Brazil's Federal Police have requested charges be brought against President Michel Temer for corruption and money laundering, alleging that his Democratic Party received US$2.41 million in bribes from Odebrecht in 2014.... More


Rome, September 6 (RHC) – Thirty South American leaders have been invited to join the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) in its global campaign for the empowerment of indigenous women.... More


Images of the fire that destroyed the National Museum of Brazil

Brazilia, September 6 (RHC) – In Brazil, an indigenous leader considered that the National Museum fire there caused a loss to indigenous cultures as irreparable as that of the European invasion of their country. The first Portuguese invasion, in the year 1500, resulted in colonization and the dubbing of the territory Brazil.... More


Caracas, September 6 (RHC) -- The Venezuelan government and the United Nations signed an agreement on technical cooperation Wednesday to collaborate on the return of Venezuelan immigrants through the Return to the Homeland Plan.... More


Presidente de Guatemala, Jimmy Morales. File Photo

Guatemala City, September 5 (RHC)-- The Guatemalan government has issued an order to all airlines barring Ivan Velasquez, head of the United Nations-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) from boarding any plane with Guatemala as a destination.... More


Caracas, September 5 (RHC)-- The Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez and the Minister of Communications and Information Jorge Rodriguez have addressed the country to denounce the coalition made by foreign countries and media about the "false humanitarian crisis" in the nation, that has been used to deepen the attacks against the government of Nicolas Maduro.... More


Madrid, September 5 (RHC)-- The Spanish Ministry of Defense has announced that it will return the 9.2 million euros already paid by Saudi Arabia to buy 400 Spanish-made precision bombs amid fears that they could be used to target the innocent people of Yemen, the El Mundo reported.... More


Buenos Aires, September 5 (RHC)-- Argentina’s president has announced a series of “emergency” austerity measures — including cutting the number of ministries in more than half — to slash spending and supposedly save the national currency, the peso, which continues to fall against the dollar.... More


Rio de Janeiro, September 5 (RHC)-- Police in Brazil have used tear gas against protesters angered by purported mismanagement and neglect that led to a fire destroying the country’s National Museum building.... More


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