Canadian Prime Minister supports controversial oil pipeline.  Photo: Democracy Now

Ottawa, April 20 (RHC)-- In Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is continuing to back the construction of the massive $5.8 billion Trans Mountain pipeline... More


Putin and Trump during a previous encounter (File)

Moscow, April 20 (RHC)--Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to visit the United States in response to an invitation made by his US counterpart, Donald Trump, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday. ... More


Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno gives a news conference after two Ecuadorean journalists and their driver were killed after being kidnapped in March.  Photo: R

Quito, April 19 (RHC)-- Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno has announced that his country would no longer serve as the guarantor and host of the Colombian government's peace talks ... More


Power outage throws entire island of Puerto Rico into the dark.   Photo: Democracy Now

San Juan, April 19 (RHC)-- An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the U.S. colony struggles to repair an increasingly unstable power grid ... More


UNASUR works for Continental integration.  Photo: UNASUR

La Paz, April 19 (RHC)-- Bolivia has assumed the pro tempore presidency of the Union of South American Nations, UNASUR... More


 German political party denounces attacks against Syria.  Photo: Ruptly Press

Berlin, April 19 (RHC)-- The left-wing Die Linke party held a rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Wednesday, where party leaders protested against the airstrikes carried out by the U.S., France and the UK in Syria over the past weekend. ... More


Paul Singer was admitted last Sunday at a hospital in Sao Paulo, due to an infection.   Photo: Creative Commons

Brasilia, April 19 (RHC)-- The economist and founder of the Workers' Party in Brazil (PT), Paul Singer, has died at the age of 86 in Sao Paulo after suffering an infection. ... More


US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) speaks during a press conference at the US Capitol on March 14, 2018 in Washington.  Photo: AFP

Washington, April 19 (RHC)-- The U.S. Senate has grilled officials of the Donald Trump administration over Washington's support for Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen, saying there's an “alarming absence of strategy” when it comes to the war. ... More


South Korea´s president Moon Jae-in

Seoul, April 19 (RHC)-- South Korea´s president Moon Jae-in has accepted North Korea´s request of a signing of a formal peace treaty to replace the current truce that currently governs the relations between the two countries after the end of the Korean peninsula conflict in 1953.... More


The White House, National Security Council, State Department and Treasury Department are also working on options to "help drive Maduro from office," t

Washington, April 18 (RHC)-- In what is being considered yet another attempt at undermining Venezuela's democracy, U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing a team of lawyers and policy experts... More


Bashar Jaafari, permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, along with Vasily Nebenzya, Russian's Ambassador to the United Natio

United Nations, April 18 (RHC)-- Russia has said that there is no need for establishing a new inquiry into chemical weapons use in Syria as Washington and its allies have already taken up the role of judge and executioner. ... More


French police raid protest camp.  Photo: EFE

Paris, April 18 (RHC)-- In France, police are trying to forcibly evict a group of anti-capitalist activists from their camp in Notre-Dame-des-Landes in western France, where they’ve been fighting for 10 years against a proposal to build an airport. ... More


 Trump lawyer Michael Cohen.  Photo: AP

New York, April 18 (RHC)-- In New York City, a U.S. federal judge has rejected President Donald Trump’s efforts to have first access to the documents seized by the FBI from the home... More


Washington plans to deport Vietnamese immigrants.   Photo: Japan Times

Washington, April 18 (RHC)-- The former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam told Reuters that the Trump administration is seeking to deport thousands of Vietnamese immigrants, despite a bilateral agreement that should protect most of them. ... More


Andrew Wheeler, second-in-command at the Environmental Protection Agency.  Photo: AP

Washington, April 18 (RHC)-- The U.S. Senate has approved a former coal industry lobbyist to become second-in-command at the Environmental Protection Agency.... More


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