Brasilia, December 30 (RHC)-- The Brazilian president has signed the 11.6 percent minimum wage hike in line with the 11 percent inflation this year. The raise will go into effect January 1st. ... More
La Paz, December 30 (RHC)-- Extreme poverty in Bolivia is expected to drop to 9.5 percent by 2020, President Evo Morales announced Tuesday. The Bolivian head of state made the announcement while presenting his social and economic development plan for the next five years, which seeks to tackle major socio-economic gaps between the poor and wealthy. ... More
Baghdad, December 29 (RHC)-- The Iraqi military command has declared that the city of Ramadi has been "fully liberated" from the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, and that government soldiers have raised the national Iraqi flag over the main government building in the strategic western city. ... More
Tel Aviv, December 29 (RHC)-- Israel plans to build more illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli rights group Peace Now. ... More
Geneva, December 29 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization has declared Guinea Ebola-free, an important milestone for the West African nation where the worst outbreak of the deadly virus began two years ago. ... More
Abuja, December 28 (RHC)-- Twenty people have been killed and 90 others injured in a bomb explosion at a mosque in northern Nigeria, officials say. ... More
Buenos Aires, December 28 (RHC)-- Thousands of Argentineans took to a main square in Buenos Aires to join in an “open air” broadcast of public television as part of ongoing protests against President Mauricio Macri’s proposed changes to the country’s Media Law, Prensa Latina reported Monday. ... More
Buenos Aires, December 28 (RHC)-- Devastating floods have now killed at least 10 people across four South American nations, according to reports Monday. ... More
Dallas, December 28 (RHC)-- At least 43 people died over the holiday weekend in a series of storms that hit the South, Southwest and Midwest United States. ... More
New York, December 28 (RHC)-- Heat records were broken in the United States over the weekend across the East Coast from Maine to Florida. ... More
Houston, December 28 (RHC)-- Two U.S. mosques have been attacked in separate incidents over the weekend. On Christmas Day, just after hundreds of people finished Friday prayers, a two-alarm fire erupted at the Islamic Society of Greater Houston in Texas. Authorities say it was intentionally set. ... More
Tel Aviv, December 28 (RHC)-- Israeli government ministers have backed a bill to crack down on human rights groups by requiring them to disclose details about funding they receive from foreign governments. ... More
Tokyo, December 28 (RHC)-- Japan and South Korea have reached a deal aimed at addressing the demands of so-called 'comfort women' forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II. ... More
Tokyo, December 28 (RHC)-- Officials on the island of Okinawa have sued the Japanese government in the latest bid to block construction of a new U.S. military base. Okinawa authorities say the Japanese government illegally overrode Governor Takeshi Onaga’s order halting construction earlier this year. ... More
Washington, December 28 (RHC)-- A new report finds the United States increased its sale of weapons around the world by about 35 percent this past year, even as the overall arms market stayed relatively flat. ... More
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