Police use water cannon during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  (Photo: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)

Jerusalem, July 26 (RHC)-- Thousands of protesters hit the streets of Jerusalem to denounce Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, as well as alleged corruption in his government.... More


London, July 26 (RHC)-- TUI, Europe's biggest holiday company, said on Sunday it had decided to cancel all holidays to mainland Spain up to and including Sunday August 9th in updated advice after Britain imposed a quarantine on those returning from the country.... More


Havana, July 26 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called to work for a better society just as those who attacked the country's second-largest military stronghold 67 years ago.  The president published a photo with his wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza, in front of the Cuban flag. ... More


Mexico City, July 26 (RHC)-- Coronavirus cases in Latin America for the first time have surpassed the combined infections in the United States and Canada, a Reuters tally showed on Sunday, amid a surge of infections in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Argentina.... More


Miami, July 26 (RHC)-- Florida on Sunday became the second state after California to overtake New York, the worst-hit state at the start of the U.S. novel coronavirus outbreak, according to a Reuters tally.... More


Francisco Vargas also disagreed with the TSE's decision to disqualify Evo Morales.  (Photo: Xinhua)

La Paz, July 26 (RHC)-- Bolivian electoral officials Francisco Vargas and Daniel Atahuachi expressed their disagreement with the decision by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) to postpone the general elections until October 18th. ... More


Chinese police march past U.S. consulate in Chengdu after it was ordered closed. (Photo: Ng Han Guan/AP)

Beijing, July 26 (RHC)-- Authorities have tightened security outside the United States consulate in the southwest Chinese city of Chengdu as American staff prepared to leave, a day after China ordered it to close in response to a U.S. order for China to shut its consulate in Houston.... More


Brasilia, July 26 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that he has tested negative for the novel coronavirus after weeks quarantined in his residence due to an infection.... More


Havana, July 26 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported 17 new cases detected yesterday of COVID-19, for a total of 2,495 positive cases across the island.  ... More


Since signing the Peace Agreement in 2016, 971 murders of leaders and defenders have been registered.

Bogota, July 25 (RHC)-- The movement "Defend Peace" has called for a virtual mobilization this Sunday, July 26, to reject the assassinations of social leaders, human rights defenders (HRDs) and signatories of the Peace Agreement.... More


Photo: Godofredo Vasquez / Houston Chronicle via AP

Houston, July 25 (RHC)-- U.S. officials pried open the doors of the Chinese consulate in Houston on Friday and took over the building shortly after Chinese officials vacated the facility on orders from the Donald Trump administration.... More


U.S. warplane dangerously approached an Iranian passenger aircraft over Syria.

Tehran, July 25 (RHC)-- U.S. F-15 warplanes involved in the harassment of an Iranian passenger plane approaching the Beirut airport were not "on a routine air mission," a report says, dismissing a claim otherwise made by a U.S. military official with Central Command, CENTCOM.... More


Quito, July 25 (RHC)-- More than 20 former presidents and high-level government officials in Latin America have denounced Ecuador for barring the political party of former leftist President Rafael Correa from next year’s election. ... More


Atlanta, July 25 (RHC)-- Despite canceling the Republican National Convention for next month due to the dangers of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump has called again for schools to fully reopen in the fall.  But at least one school that will not be doing that is St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Maryland, where Trump’s son Barron attends classes. ... More


Washington, July 25 (RHC)-- Another 1.4 million people filed for unemployment last week.  It marks the 18th week in a row that more than a million people filed jobless claims in a single week. ... More


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