Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva

Brasilia, December 7 (RHC)-- Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva has repeatedly suggested he intends to run for president in 2018.... More


Ramallah, December 7 (RHC)-- Palestinian leaders and the international community are expressing outrage at the Israeli parliament’s vote this week to retroactively legalize thousands of Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. ... More


Rabat, December 7 (RHC)-- In news from the Morocco-occupied Western Sahara, 22 year-old media activist Walid Fatal has been sentenced by a Moroccan court to 14 months in prison for filming a peaceful protest in the city of Smara last November 25 on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.... More


Lima, December 7 (RHC)-- Peru’s jailed former dictator Alberto Fujimori said that authorities had moved him from his prison cell to a health facility in the capital city Lima to undergo medical testing related to a brain condition and mobility problems. ... More


Bismarck, December 7 (RHC)-- On the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, Wes Clark Jr. led military veterans in a ceremony to ask forgiveness from Native Americans for the crimes of the U.S. military.... More


Ramallah, December 6 (RHC)-- Emergency workers in Gaza have recovered the bodies of four Palestinians who had gone missing in a tunnel running under the coastal enclave's border into Egyp... More


Stockholm, December 6 (RHC)-- A group of lawmakers and cultural personalities from Sweden have asked outgoing U.S. president Barack Obama to release Puerto Rican liberation fighter Oscar López Rivera... More


Washington, December 6 (RHC)-- The Washington Post is reporting Donald Trump’s recent protocol-breaking telephone conversation with Taiwan’s leader was an intentionally provocative move that had been planned weeks in advance. ... More


U.S. Priest Assassinated in Guatemala Stanley Rother

Guatemala City, December 6 (RHC)-- An U.S. priest assassinated in Guatemala in 1981 has moved a step closer to sainthood. The Vatican has now declared Reverend Stanley Rother to be a martyr. ... More


United Nations, December 6 (RHC)-- Some four million children have lost at least one parent in two decades of continuous violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a statement issued by the United Nations. ... More


Ottawa, December 6 (RHC)-- A survey conducted by Canada's national statistics agency shows nearly 1,000 members of the Canadian Armed Forces reported being sexually assaulted over the past year. ... More


Caracas, December 5 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced the arrest of those responsible for the banking system sabotage that saw the nation's electronic payments system collapse in the country on Friday. ... More


United Nations, December 5 (RHC)-- The United Nations General Assembly has once again passed a resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from Syria’s Golan Heights, territory that the Tel Aviv regime has occupied since 1967. ... More


Retired  US Marine General James Mattis

Washington, December 5 (RHC)-- U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine General James Mattis to be defense secretary.... More


Brasilia, December 5 (RHC)-- Thousands of people have poured into the streets of Brazilian cities, including Rio de Janeiro, to express their opposition to alleged attempts by the scandal-plagued Congress to shut down a huge anti-graft probe. ... More


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