White House touts Judge Kavanaugh’s business-friendly rulings.   Photo: White House file

Washington, July 13 (RHC)-- The White House touted federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s business-friendly record in a one-page memo handed out to corporate executives after Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court this week. ... More


Papa John’s founder steps down as chairman after using N-word.   Photo: AP

New York, July 13 (RHC)-- Papa John’s founder John Schnatter has stepped down as chairman of the board, after Forbes magazine reported he used a racial slur -- the N-word -- during a conference call in May.  ... More


Dilma, Hoffmann and Lula.

Brasilia, July 13 (RHC)-- The national president of Brazil´s Workers´ Party (PT), Senator Gleisi Hoffmann, will participate, along with former President Dilma Rousseff, at the 24th annual meeting of the São Paulo Forum, scheduled to start in Havana on Sunday.... More


Bolivia President Evo Morales with Paraguayan President-Electt Mario Abdo Benitez in La Paz. Vaaju.com photo

La Paz, July 12 (RHC)—Paraguay´s president-elect, Mario Abdo Benitez, says he will do his best to help Bolivia become a full member of the Mercosur trade bloc.... More


Nicaraguan soldiers ordered not to repress protests.  Photo: Reuters File

Managua, July 12 (RHC)-- The Nicaraguan Army, in a press release, has rebuffed claims of being involved in undertaking and executing public policing mandates.... More


Palestinians check house after it was demolished by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on April 24, 2018.   Photo: AFP

United Nations, July 12 (RHC)-- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says Israeli authorities demolished 197 Palestinian structures in West Bank during the first half of 2018 as the Tel Aviv regime presses ahead with its land expropriation policies in the occupied territories. ... More


Demonstrators attend a protest against the President Macri's government agreement with the IMF in Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 9, 2018. The sign reads: "N

Buenos Aires, July 12 (RHC)-- Following massive protests against the FMI-backed austerity measures in Argentina, a presidential decree has frozen the national income until December 2019 and leaving thousands without a job by the end of the year. ... More


 Migrant children still separated from parents.   Photo: AFP

New York, July 12 (RHC)-- New York elected representatives, clerics, activists and lawyers accused the Trump administration on Wednesday of deliberately delaying the reunification of migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.  ... More


Activists rally against NATO's "militarism" as Trump calls for more military spending.  Photo: AP

Brussels, July 12 (RHC)-- Protesters took to the streets of Brussels on Wednesday as the NATO summit continued in the Belgian capital.  ... More


Demonstrators blockade Italy's ministry of transport over migration policy.   Photo: EFE

Rome, July 12 (RHC)-- Protesters chained themselves to the front steps of the ministry of transport in Rome on Wednesday morning over the migration policy of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, namely the closure of ports to migrants arriving over the Mediterranean.... More


Protesters prepare for U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Britain.   Photo: Reuters

London, July 12 (RHC)-- In the UK, anti-Trump demonstrators are gearing up for a huge welcome for the U.S. president.... More


Workers Party (PT) Senator Lindbergh Farias

Workers Party (PT) Senator Lindbergh Farias said that Brazilian justice is harassing the presidential candidacy of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is only 72 hours away from serving a hundred days in political prison in the city of Curitiba.  ... More


Activists escort a humanitarian flotilla set off from the Gaza strip to Cyprus on July 10, 2018.  Photo: AFP

Tel Aviv, July 11 (RHC)-- The Israeli Navy was dispatched Tuesday to stop a boat which departed the Gaza Strip, and which was carrying injured Palestinian civilians.  The boat intended to take the injured civilians from border protests to Cyprus for medical treatment. ... More


 U.S. - Mexico border detention facility.   Photo: Reuters ARCHIVE

Los Angeles, July 11 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump's administration request to allow long-term detentions of undocumented immigrant children, which was included in an executive order to end the practice of separating parents and children at the border with Mexico, was rejected on Monday by U.S. federal judge Dolly Gee. ... More


President-elect Ivan Duque addresses the media next to Vice President-elect Marta Lucia Ramirez in Bogota, Colombia June 21, 2018.   Photo: Reuters

Bogota, July 11 (RHC)-- Joining the recent efforts by right-wing governments in the region to destroy integration and regional sovereignty, Colombia's president-elect Ivan Duque reaffirmed his intentions to withdraw from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). ... More


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