United Nations, February 27 (RHC)-- Following a request from the United States, the UN Security Council held an urgent session on Tuesday to discuss Venezuela and its internal political situation.... More
Washington, February 27 (RHC)-- The U.S. House of Representatives voted 245 to 182 to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, which would divert billions of dollars of federal funds to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. ... More
Washington, February 27 (RHC)-- At a heated congressional hearing on Capital Hill Tuesday, U.S. lawmakers grilled Trump administration officials about their role in implementing Trump’s draconian family separation policy.... More
United Nations, February 27 (RHC)-- The United Nations top court has ruled that Britain should hand over control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. The court said Britain's takeover of Chagos in 1965 was illegal and that Chagos should have been returned to Mauritius after it gained independence from the U.K. in 1968.... More
New York, February 27 (RHC)-- A new study in the publication Nature Geoscience finds that warming temperatures could lead to a major loss in cloud cover, pushing the Earth even more quickly toward a catastrophic climate “tipping point.”... More
Guatemala City, February 27 (RHC)-- In Guatemala, lawmakers are considering an amnesty bill that could free over 30 people convicted of crimes against humanity, including genocide, torture and enforced disappearances, during the country’s 36-year U.S.-backed slaughter, which ended in 1996.... More
Bogota, February 26 (RHC)-- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met with Venezuela’s self-proclaimed president Juan Guaidó Monday during a meeting of the Lima Group in Bogotá, Colombia. ... More
London, February 26 (RHC)-- In Britain, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said Monday his party will back a second Brexit referendum if lawmakers fail to pass his party’s proposed amendments to the contested deal.... More
Hanoi, February 26 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrive in Hanoi, Vietnam, today for their second round of talks on a possible denuclearization agreement.... More
United Nations, February 26 (RHC)-- Speaking at a UN conference on disarmament Monday, Secretary-General António Guterres warned that international arms control mechanisms are collapsing, and called on the United States and Russia to recommit to the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty—known as the INF—and to extend the New START Treaty before it expires in 2021.... More
Tokyo, February 26 (RHC)-- In Japan, residents of Okinawa opposed plans to relocate a U.S. air base elsewhere on the island in a referendum on Sunday. Over 70 percent of voters voted against the plan.... More
Washington, February 26 (RHC)-- Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is set to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed hearing. Reports say that Cohen may directly accuse Trump of criminal conduct. ... More
Caracas, February 25 (RHC)-- Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of the Caribbean country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, called a local radio station after a journalist from the country reported on-the-ground realities from Venezuela's capital Caracas.... More
Geneva, February 25 (RHC)-- Iran continues to comply with the restrictions on its nuclear activities under a 2015 deal it signed with major global powers, a report by the UN nuclear agency says, even as the United States re-imposed sanctions against Tehran.... More
London, February 25 (RHC)-- Activist and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has called for the liberation of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in an interview with the magazine Brooklyn Vegan. During the interview, Waters referred to his 2018 tour in Brazil, just before the presidential elections, and he slammed Lula's imprisonment as political.... More
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