London, March 14 (RHC)-- Former British Cabinet minister, longtime Parliament member and anti-war activist Tony Benn has died at the age of 88. He was the longest-serving member of Parliament in the history of Britain’s Labour Party, serving more than half a century. ... More
Santiago, March 13 (RHC) -- South American foreign ministers have decided to dispatch a commission to Venezuela to oversee the political dialog toward peace in the country. ... More
Geneva, March 13 (RHC)-- The United Nations says the number of civilian casualties from U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan has tripled in the past year. UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson warned on Wednesday that civilian deaths resulting from U.S. drone attacks are intensifying in Afghanistan.... More
Caracas, March 13 (RHC) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday announced a ban on violent anti-government demonstrations which have roiled the capital Caracas for a month.... More
Cairo, March 13 (RHC)-- Egypt has demolished 1,370 underground tunnels between the country and the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Egyptian military. Army spokesmen did not say when the tunnels were demolished. ... More
La Paz, March 13 (RHC) -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will attend an upcoming summit of the Group of 77 developing countries plus China (G-77 + China) in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in June, Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Wednesday. ... More
London, March 13 (RHC)-- Britain’s Scotland Yard police have been accused of covering up "institutionalized sexism" in a bid to block claims by women deceived into relationships with undercover officers. ... More
Santiago de Chile, March 13 (RHC) – Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet will travel to Argentina in April for what will be her first official visit since being re-elected, Foreign Minister Heraldo Muñoz confirmed on Wednesday. ... More
Madison, March 13 (RHC)-- Revelations by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden on the massive U.S. surveillance programs show that Washington still has the Cold War-era mentality, a political analyst says.... More
Bogotá, March 13 (RHC) -– At least six people have been killed in an ambulance aircraft crash in the central Colombian province of Meta. Authorities say that the aircraft crashed around 6:30 a.m. local time (1130 GMT) Wednesday near Vanguardia airport in Villavicencio, leaving no survivors. ... More
Washington, March 13 (RHC)-- A hunger-striking Guantánamo prisoner has filed the first-ever legal challenge to force-feeding at the prison in U.S. federal courts. Emad Hassan is said to have been force-fed over 5,000 times since his first hunger strike in 2005. ... More
New Orleans, March 13 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Louisiana, a prisoner has been freed after 30 years on death row. Glenn Ford walked out of the Angola penitentiary on Tuesday after a judge vacated his murder conviction and death sentence. ... More
Seattle, March 13 (RHC)-- At least 750 prisoners at a Washington state immigration jail have launched a hunger strike. The strikers at the Northwest Detention Center are protesting the Barack Obama administration’s record deportations as well as poor conditions that include wages of just one dollar a day for prison labor. ... More
Washington, March 12 (RHC)-- White House press secretary Jay Carney says U.S. military exercises with Romanian and Bulgarian warships in the Black Sea "speak in a clear voice" to Russia.... More
Paramaribo, March 12 (RHC) -- Desi Bouterse, the current head of Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), pledged to call a meeting of regional leaders to discuss the situation in Venezuela -- gripped by more than one-month of violent riots.... More
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