Washington, March 7 (RHC)-- Amid simmering tensions between Washington and Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine, U.S. Navy officials say a U.S. guided-missile destroyer which is en route to the Black Sea has been sent there on a “routine” deployment.... More
Gaza City, March 7 (RHC)-- Egypt has prevented a group of 100 European and American female activists from reaching the besieged Gaza Strip.... More
Geneva, March 7 (RHC-CMC) – The international police organization (INTERPOL) has signed an agreement with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling in the Caribbean and other places.... More
Paris, March 7 (RHC)-- French forces say they have killed at least twelve people in Mali during a military operation in a northern region of the African country.... More
Geneva, March 7 (RHC)The Venezuelan mission in Geneva rejected statements by some UN experts at the Human Rights Council by describing them part of an international misinformation campaign.... More
Moscow, March 7 (RHC) Russian ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov described as inacceptable and unfair the expressions and terms used in a document issued by the European Union Summit on the crisis in Ukraine. ... More
Kiev, March 6 (RHC)-- Lawmakers of Ukraine’s autonomous Crimea region have requested Russia to let the region join the Russian Federation amid escalating tension over the territory.... More
Caracas, March 6 (RHC) -– The Venezuelan government has announced that it is cutting ties with Panama, citing the Central American country's complicity in a "conspiracy" against Caracas.... More
San José, March 6 (RHC) -– Costa Rican presidential candidate Johnny Araya, from the governing party, says he is abandoning his campaign for April's run-off election. ... More
Washington, March 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has signed an executive order imposing a ban on visas and property of a number of individuals who the United States believes are violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.... More
Washington, March 6 (RHC)-- According to reports from Washington, the newly proposed U.S. military budget for 2015 is $575 billion. The Pentagon is reportedly seeking an additional $79.4 billion in war funding, even though most U.S. troops are supposed to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of the year.... More
La Paz, March 6 (RHC) -– The Bolivian government says 70 people have died, most of them in car accidents, during carnival festivities in the Andean country. Interior Minister Carlos Romero said on Wednesday that police reported 70 deaths, including 37 in traffic accidents.... More
Washington, March 6 (RHC)-- The oil giant Chevron has won a major victory in a lawsuit it brought against victims of its pollution in Ecuador. A group of indigenous plaintiffs won a landmark $9 billion judgment in 2011 for widespread contamination resulting from toxic dumping by Texaco, which Chevron later bought. ... More
Bogotá, March 6 (RHC) -– Five people were killed Wednesday by an armed group that invaded a farm in northern Colombia, the public defenders office said in a statement.... More
Houston, March 6 (RHC)-- A U.S. appeals court has rejected the oil giant BP’s attempt to limit payouts stemming from its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf.... More
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