Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Russia could be ousted from the Group of Eight (G-8) over its deployment of troops in the restive Ukrainian region, warning that Moscow will suffer a loss of trade and investment if it does not retreat. ... More


La Paz, March 3 (RHC) -- Four people were killed and 60 more injured when a footbridge collapsed during the opening of the Carnival of Oruro on Saturday. According to an official report on Sunday, three of the four killed were musicians and the other one was a female fan.... More


Tripoli, March 3 (RHC)-- Dozens of protesters have stormed Libya's interim parliament building in Tripoli, with some of them rampaging through the building. According to witnesses, the demonstrators entered the General National Congress (GNC) on Sunday and called for its dissolution, AFP reported.... More


Bogota, March 3 (RHC) -- The military leader of the criminal gang Los Urabeños, Heriberto Zafra (aka Diego Montoya), was arrested in the northern Colombian department of Santander, in a rural area of Lebrija.... More


Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- The co-founder of CODEPINK, a peace and social justice movement, says hundreds of anti-war protesters called for peace with Iran outside the venue of the annual policy conference of American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, DC.... More


Tel Aviv, March 3 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will maintain a tough line against heavy international pressure to make concessions to Palestinians. The Israeli prime minister made the remarks on Sunday shortly before heading to Washington for a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama.... More


Washington, March 3 (RHC)-- Nearly 400 opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline were arrested Sunday in front of the White House, marking what could be the largest youth sit-in on the environment in a generation.... More


Kingston, March 3 (RHC)-- Jamaica will host the Second Higher Education Conference of the Caribbean, a forum that will focus on pending needs to improve the sector in the region, according to local media.... More


Kingston, March 2 (RHC) Jamaica will host the Second Higher Education Conference of the Caribbean, a forum that will focus on pending needs to improve the sector in the region, according to local media.... More


Caracas, March 1 (RHC) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro opened another session of a National Conference for Peace on Friday, seeking to put an end to the country's weeks-long violence. At the meeting, Maduro proposed turning the event into a "permanent" forum.... More


Beijing, March 1 (RHC)-- China has released a report on human rights in the United States, slamming the country for its overseas drone attacks, state-sponsored spying and gun crime.... More


Caracas, March 1 (RHC) -– Meanwhile, the death toll from almost three weeks of violence in Venezuela has risen to 17. Venezuelan Attorney General Luisa Ortega said on Friday that the death toll from the street violence organized by fascist opposition groups has injured more than 260 others. ... More


47 Die in Baghdad Bombings

Baghdad, March 1 (RHC)-- In Iraq, at least 42 people were killed when a motorcycle rigged with explosives blew up near a secondhand market in Sadr City, Baghdad. At least 51 people were injured. ... More


London, March 1 (RHC)-- In the latest disclosure based on the leaks of Edward Snowden, The Guardian reports Britain’s spy agency GCHQ intercepted millions of people’s Yahoo webcam chats and stored still images of them. ... More


Quito, March 1 (RHC) -- Ecuador has rejected as "biased" an annual U.S. human rights report which accuses the government of President Rafael Correa of stifling freedom of expression.... More


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