Juan Guaido, self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, in Caracas; January 11, 2020.   (Photo: Reuters)

Caracas, January 13 (RHC)-- The self-proclaimed 'president' of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, announced over the weekend that he has plans to take over teleSUR's television signal in an attempt to silence the channel.... More


La Paz, January 13 (RHC)-- Evo Morales' former Interior Minister Carlos Romero has denounced that The Resistance, a shock group supporting the coup-based government led by Jeanine Añez, kept him kidnapped for two days inside his home.... More


Guatemala City, January 13 (RHC)-- Cuban Deputy Prime Minister Jorge Luis Tapia Fonseca arrived this Sunday morning in Guatemala City to participate in the inauguration of the new president of that country, Alejandro Giammattei Falla, taking place on Monday..... More


AMLO gestures as he speaks during his visit to the Mexican-American Mormon community in La Mora.  (Photo: Reuters)

Mexico City, January 13 (RHC)--  Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador pledged Sunday that those behind a massacre that killed nine members of a U.S.-Mexican family of Mormon origin will be punished and that the truth surrounding the crime will eventually come out.... More


Alina Balseiro

Havana, January 13 (RHC)-- The president of the Cuban National Electoral Council, Alina Balseiro, expressed her satisfaction with the drill carried out throughout the island on Sunday for preparation of the elections of governors and vice-governors.... More


The average annual temperature in Cuba in 2019 was the highest reported since 1951, reaching 1.1 degrees Celsius above the historic average of 25.5, reported the Climate Center of the Meteorology Institute.... More


 Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Kremlin.  (Photo: Reuters)

Moscow, January 13 (RHC)-- Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin have agreed to fight to save the Iran nuclear deal, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), after meeting in Moscow amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.... More


A malnourished child receives medical treatment at hospital in Yemen.  (Photo: Xinhua)

Sanaa, January 13 (RHC)-- Yemen has been pushed to the brink of famine, with more than 12 million Yemeni children in dire need of humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations... More


Bolivia's coup-imposed Foreign Minister Karen Longaric speaks during a news conference in La Paz.  (Photo: Reuters)

La Paz, January 13 (RHC)-- In Bolivia, the de-facto government of Jeanine Añez entrusted her now ex-deputy foreign minister, Gualberto Rodriguez, to report in Europe that in Bolivia there was no coup d'etat, but a constitutional succession.  Rodriguez is now the new Chargé d'affaires in Spain.... More


Washington, January 12 (RHC)-- The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by United States President Donald Trump, according to six people familiar with the deliberations.... More


Washington, January 12 (RHC)-- The Daesh Takfiri terrorist group has hailed the recent assassination of Iran's top military commander, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, by its “allied” U.S. forces in Iraq, describing the criminal act as a “divine intervention” made by direct order of American President Donald Trump.... More


Washington, January 12 (RHC)-- In the United States, a new study suggests that raising the minimum wage by one dollar an hour could save thousands of people from dying by suicide each year — and that if the minimum wage had been at least $2 an hour higher, nearly 60,000 lives could have been saved between 1990 and 2015. ... More


Activists from the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) Seva Dal protest following the death of a 23-year-old rape victim.  (Photo: Reuters)

New Delhi, January 12 (RHC)-- One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on Thursday, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female.... More


A man walks past graffiti that denounces strikes by US drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sanaa.  (Photo: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)

Washington, January 12 (RHC)-- The United States military tried, but failed, to kill another senior Iranian commander on the same day a U.S. drone strike killed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's top general, Qassem Soleimani, U.S. officials have admitted.... More


Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil, in August 2019.  (Photo: Reuters)

Brasilia, January 12 (RHC)-- Brazil’s Amazon region last August registered 30,901 fires, a figure almost three times that for the same month in 2018 and the worst for the month in the last decade, all of this resulting from the drought, the high temperatures and – in large part – deforestation caused by man, a governmental agency has reported.... More


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