San Juan, August 10 (RHC)-- The colonial government of Puerto Rico has quietly acknowledged in a report posted on-line that in all likelihood more than 1,400 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria -- a figure that is more than 20 times the official death toll. The "official toll" stands at 64.... More
Buenos Aires, August 10 (RHC)-- Argentinean activists and feminists organized in the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe, and Free Abortion have vowed to continue their fight after the Senate rejected the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy Bill, which would have ended the criminalization of women who choose to abort within the first 14 weeks.... More
United Nations, August 10 (RHC)-- The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) has warned that a fresh cholera outbreak is spreading quickly in Yemen’s vital seaport of Hudaydah, amid ongoing attacks by the Saudi-led coalition against the besieged provincial capital. Cholera infection first became epidemic in Yemen in October 2016 and spread until December the same year, when it decreased. The second outbreak began in the Arabian Peninsula country in April last year.... More
Caracas, August 9 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab has announced that 19 individuals have been identified as being directly involved in the failed assassination attempt against President Nicolás Maduro. ... More
Gaza City, August 9 (RHC)-- Armed Israeli drones and F-16 warplanes have pounded an agricultural area in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahiya as clashes between Palestinian resistance forces and the Israeli military continue. ... More
Sao Paulo, August 9 (RHC)-- Unionists from Brazil and other parts of the world took part in the International Action in Defense of Democracy in which they expressed support for former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva... More
Berlin, August 9 (RHC)-- German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has criticized Washington’s re-imposition of sanctions against Tehran, pledging to work to guarantee the survival of the Iran nuclear agreement abandoned by the US in defiance of opposition from other parties to the deal.... More
New York, August 9 (RHC)-- United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has nominated former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet to be the next human rights chief, the U.N. said Wednesday.... More
Tel Aviv, August 9 (RHC)-- Israeli Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan said that Iran should completely "disappear" from the map of the world.... More
Buenos Aires, August 9 (RHC)-- Argentina´s former president and current senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner rejected Thursday the Senate's refusal to approve the legalization of abortion, but she was optimistic about the future.... More
United Nations, August 8 (RHC)-- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Saturday's drone attack, which targetted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.... More
Moscow, August 8 (RHC)-- Russia says it was "deeply disappointed" by U.S. President Donald Trump's move to re-impose unilateral sanctions on Tehran... More
Brasilia, August 8 (RHC)-- In Brazil, following a closed meeting, the presidents of the Workers Party (PT), Senator Gleisi Hoffman, and of the Brazilian Communist Party (PCdoB) lawmaker Luciana Santos announced in a press conference they were entering into a coalition for the upcoming October presidential elections.... More
Brussels, August 8 (RHC)-- If European companies cave in to U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of secondary sanctions and stop doing business in Iran, they will be punished by the EU itself, says the aide to Federica Mogherini, the bloc's foreign policy chief.... More
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Tel Aviv, August 8 (RHC)-- An Israeli military court has handed down a jail term of 18 months to an Palestinian teenager as the number of Palestinian children being held in Tel Aviv regime’s prisons... More
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