Havana, January 16 (RHC)--The President of the National Assembly and the Council of State of Cuba, Esteban Lazo Hernández, has sent a message to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Australia, Tony Smith, expressing his deep sorrow at the consequences of the devastating fires in that country.... More
Washington, January 16 (RHC)-- The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has presented a report on its visit to Ecuador last October, when massive protests took place against the neoliberal measures promoted by President Lenin Moreno.... More
Santiago de Chile, January 16 (RHC)-- In Chile, the political alliance, Frente Amplio/Broad Front (FA) is pressing charges for crimes against humanity targetting several top Chilean authorities, including President Sebastián Piñera after the events which unfolded during the social explosion which began in October last year.... More
San Juan, January 16 (RHC)-- In Puerto Rico, at least 5,000 people are living in shelters nearly one week after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit the island, causing at least $110 million in damage and plunging nearly the entire population into darkness in a mass power outage that lasted for days. ... More
Tehran, January 15 (RHC)-- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned about U.S. attempts to seize control of Syria’s oil wells, among its other interventionist policies in the region, urging regional nations to spare no effort to send the American military home.... More
Santiago de Chile, January 15 (RHC)-- The Chilean National Institute of Human Rights (NIHR) reports that it will ask the Ministry of Health and the police (Carabineros) to investigate which chemicals were used against this past weekend's demonstrations.... More
Washington, January 15 (RHC)-- U.S. Attorney General William Barr is demanding that Apple unlock the phones of the alleged gunman of a deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, escalating tensions between the Justice Department and Apple in a legal battle over personal privacy. ... More
Paris, January 15 (RHC)-- France says it will send about 200 additional troops to West Africa, even as many protesters in Mali and other West African nations are calling on France to withdraw the more than 4,000 troops it has stationed in the former French colonies. ... More
Caracas, January 15 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan Government and the International Red Cross have reviewed the cooperation agreements for the protection of the victims of the U.S. blockade.... More
Bogota, January 15 (RHC)-- In the first two weeks of 2020, 17 social leaders have been assassinated in Colombia, the Co-President of the Senate Peace Commission Ivan Cepeda has reported. Cepeda published the official figures on his Twitter account, at a time when frequent violent acts have been reported almost daily in the country.... More
Tehran, January 15 (RHC)-- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned the United States to end its military intervention in the region, saying such a withdrawal will both help restore regional security and serve Washington’s own interests.... More
Ramallah, January 15 (RHC)-- Ramallah-based human rights group Al-Haq released a statement urging the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and its chief Michelle Bachelet to publish a database listing companies that “directly and indirectly, enabled, facilitated and profited from the construction and growth of the settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” ... More
Washington, January 15 (RHC)-- The Donald Trump administration is planning to divert an additional $7.2 billion from the military budget for the construction of Trump’s promised border wall, bringing the total amount allocated to wall construction so far to over $18 billion.... More
Havana, January 15 (RHC) --Cuban musicians will perform a version of Mozart's opera 'The Clemency of Titus' at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater in the US... More
Paris, January 15 (RHC)-- The Secretary-General of the Communist Party of France (PCF), Fabien Roussel, urged his fellow countrymen and the international community on Wednesday to raise their voices even more strongly against the US blockade of Cuba.... More
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