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


The photo, taken on July 4, 2018, shows a ship run by a Spanish NGO and carrying 60 refugees rescued on the Mediterranean arriving at Barcelona's harbor after I

Rome, July 11 (RHC)-- Italian authorities have refused to take in refugees on board an Italian ship, sending a strong signal to allies in the European Union that the new populist government in Rome is determined to force a change in the EU refugee policy. ... More


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem al-Quds, July 8, 2018.   Photo: AFP

Jerusalem, July 11 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been questioned again by police as part of their investigations into a string of corruption allegations, media reports say.... More


Palestinian women waiting for humanitarian aid.  Photo: AFP

United Nations, July 11 (RHC)-- The United Nations agency for Palestinians has warned that a number of inevitable cuts are planned to be imposed on its key humanitarian programs in the besieged Gaza strip and the occupied West Bank if a U.S. funding freeze cannot be overcome. ... More


Demonstrators attend a protest against the President Mauricio Macri's government agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, July 10 (RHC)-- Thousands of Argentineans took to the streets to protest on their national holiday Monday, July 9th, in central Buenos Aires.  ... More


This photo taken on May 13, 2018 shows the gate of the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.  Photo: AFP

Tel Aviv, July 10 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the closure of the Gaza Strip's main commercial crossing, in what he describes as a crackdown against the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement.  ... More


Supporters of former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hold a flag next to Federal police headquarters in Curitiba, Brazil, July 8, 2018. The flag r

Brasilia, July 10 (RHC)-- After Brazil's former President Lula da Silva was denied release from prison despite a judge accepting his habeas corpus request, the International Human Rights Foundation declared him a political prisoner.... More


North Korea accuses U.S. of “gangster-like” demands at talks.  Photo: AP

Pyongyang, July 10 (RHC)-- North Korea has accused the Donald Trump administration of pushing a “unilateral and gangster-like demand for denuclearization,” following Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s two days of talks in North Korea’s capital Pyongyang. ... More


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