Rome, June 4 (RHC)-- Massimiliano Smeriglio MEP ratified his commitment and engagement, also from the European Parliament, in favor of the international efforts that are intensifying and demanding the cessation of the aggressive policy of the United States against Cuba.... More
Minneapolis, June 4 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz said Tuesday the state’s Department of Human Rights has opened a civil rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department.... More
Washington, June 4 (RHC)-- The Washington Post reports U.S. Attorney General William Barr personally ordered police to beat and tear-gas peaceful protesters gathered near the White House Monday in order to clear a path for President Donald Trump to walk to the nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church, where Trump posed for photos holding a Bible. Among the hundreds of people tear-gassed was the former assistant rector of St. John’s. ... More
New York, June 4 (RHC)-- In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered nightly curfews from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. through Sunday. On Tuesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo threatened to call out the National Guard, saying the New York Police Department had failed to protect people and property overnight Monday when some people set fires and smashed their way into retail stores. ... More
Washington, June 4 (RHC)-- Massive protests calling for racial justice and an end to police brutality are continuing across the U.S. and around the world. ... More
Ramallah, June 4 (RHC)-- In the occupied West Bank, dozens of people protested Tuesday outside the Church of Nativity in the city of Bethlehem, denouncing the police killing of George Floyd and the recent killing of Iyad el-Hallak, a 32-year-old Palestinian special needs student who was shot to death by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday. ... More
Portland, June 4 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Oregon, an estimated 10,000 people filled Burnside Bridge in Portland Tuesday, laying face down on the pavement for nine minutes .. the length of time George Floyd was pinned beneath the three Minneapolis police officers who killed him on May 25th. ... More
San Juan, June 4 (RHC)-- In Puerto Rico, protesters marched outside the mansion of Governor Wanda Vázquez in Old San Juan Tuesday, with chants for justice for George Floyd and denouncing Puerto Rico’s own legacy of racism. Protesters ignored the island’s coronavirus curfew and stayed on the streets into the night. ... More
Paris, June 4 (RHC)-- Thousands of people in cities across France defied coronavirus restrictions against mass gatherings and took to the streets Tuesday for antiracist protests. ... More
New Delhi, June 4 (RHC)-- In India, an estimated 100,000 people — including a number of coronavirus patients — have evacuated low-lying parts of the western states of Gujarat and Maharashtra as a severe cyclone bears down on Mumbai for the first time in documented history. ... More
Havana, June 4 (RHC)-- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has called the United States government immoral, arrogant and perverse for its escalation of hostility against the people of the Caribbean nation.... More
Havana, June 4 (RHC) - COVID-19 hasn’t stopped Cuban cartoonists. Fernanda, Jaime, Samanta y XP from Equipo 009 or Rui la Pestex these days now incorporate the ‘nasobuco’ (facemask) in times of coronavirus... More
Havana, June 4 (RHC)-- The National Director of Epidemiology of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Francisco Duran, reported that there were 12 new cases of COVID-19, for an total of 2,119 positive cases across the island. ... More
Havana, June 4 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez has rejected the new coercive measures announced by the United States against seven entities on the island.... More
Washington, June 4 (RHC)-- Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis denounced Trump's heavy-handed use of military force to crack down on protests and said his former boss was setting up a "false conflict" between the military and civilian society.... More
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