Tehran, September 9 (RHC)-- Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said Sunday that the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1 has finally docked at a Mediterranean port and discharged its oil cargo, despite all the attempts of interference from the United States.... More
Buenos Aires, September 9 (RHC)-- The former president of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, proposed a rethinking of the situation of the South American country in the face of the financial crisis it is going through and proposed to establish a new social contract to move forward.... More
Washington, September 9 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the 'peace talks' with the Afghan Taliban militant group are “dead” for now and that the administration in Washington will not negotiate any future deal without commitments from the militants.... More
Managua, September 9 (RHC)-- Despite U.S. sanctions, and a year on from opposition violence, a new opinion poll by a private company reveals that over 50 percent of Nicaraguans would vote for the ruling Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) if there were an election today. The poll also revealed an extremely low level of support for the right-wing opposition, with a larger number backing no party. ... More
Tehran, September 9 (RHC)-- Tourism in Iran is on the rise, despite Washington's sanctions against the Islamic Republic.... More
Paris, September 9 (RHC)-- France has calculated the death toll from the record heatwave which hit Europe this summer, with its health minister reporting that the abnormal weather caused at least 1,500 deaths in the country. There were “18 days of extreme heat” in France this year and not everyone managed to live through them, Agnes Buzyn said in a radio interview. ... More
London, September 9 (RHC)-- British Airways pilots began an unprecedented 48-hour strike Monday grounding of most of the airline’s flights disrupting thousands of travelers’ plans in order to demand better salaries from the company.... More
Gaza City, September 8 (RHC)-- Israel has launched a lengthy bombardment of positions in the Gaza Strip, according to sources inside the besieged enclave. Palestinian news agencies said Israeli airstrikes targeted positions allegedly held by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas north of the Gaza and deep inside the enclave. Health officials said there were no casualties from the attacks that lasted nearly one hour.... More
Geneva, September 8 (RHC)-- Dozens of Palestinians have forcibly disappeared in Saudi Arabia and their fates remain unknown, according to testimonies by their families given to a Swiss-based rights group.... More
Boston, September 8 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Massachusetts, at least a dozen people were arrested at an Amazon office in Cambridge as they held a sit-in protest against the online retailer’s contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ... More
Brasilia, September 8 (RHC)-- In Brazil, Roman Catholic leaders are condemning a massive series of fires raging in the Amazon, adding to pressure against far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to stop illegal miners, farmers and ranchers from destroying rainforest critical to slowing the climate crisis. ... More
Caracas, September 8 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government has given land titles to small Campesino families in the municipality of Mara in the state of Zulia. It is hoped that handing these lands to those who work it will increase food production, to combat the effects of the U.S. blockade on Venezuela, which has damaged the country’s economy.... More
Moscow, September 8 (RHC)-- Russia has called on the international community to make the necessary efforts to prevent the derailment of the peace process in Colombia, where a dissident sector of the demobilized insurgency of the FARC rearmed itself.... More
London, September 8 (RHC)-- E-mails obtained by The Financial Times (FT) have revealed that U.S. government officials were contacting the captain of an Iranian tanker, offering millions of dollars if the captain steered the ship towards an allied country that would impound on behalf of the United States, but threatening sanctions if the captain refused. It was the same ship that was eventually seized by the U.K. in Gibraltar, and subsequently released after it was clear there were no legal grounds for the seizure.... More
Tel Aviv, September 8 (RHC)-- Israeli authorities have issued a military order to confiscate nearly 25 acres of private Palestinian land in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, as the Tel Aviv regime goes ahead with land expropriation and settlement construction policies in violation of international law and UN Security Council resolutions.... More
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