Washington, January 3 (RHC)-- The U.S. Department of Defense confirmed Thursday night that its forces killed Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani “at the direction of the president.” The statement calls the assassination a "defensive action... aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.” ... More
Baghdad, January 2 (RHC)-- General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds force, has been reported killed alongside six others following a U.S. airstrike at Baghdad's international airport. Iraqi officials and the state television reported that in addition to Soleimani, Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was killed in the attack.... More
Baghdad, January 2 (RHC)-- At least five members of an Iraqi paramilitary group and two of their "guests" were killed when rockets believed to be fired by US forces hit their vehicles, as they were traveling at Baghdad's international airport.... More
Mexico City, January 2 (RHC)-- Mexico's Ambassador to Bolivia Maria Teresa Mercado has arrived in her country after being expelled by Bolivia's de-facto regime after an incident involving Spanish diplomats at her residence.... More
Paris, January 2 (RHC)-- Protests against the French government’s plans to overhaul the pension system have reached a new milestone on their 29th day, breaking national records for the longest-ever strike, as demonstrators and police clashed in Paris.... More
Tel Aviv, January 2 (RHC)-- Two teenage boys from the Jewish-only settlement of Bat Ayin have been arrested for attacking a pair of cops disguised as Palestinian laborers in what the right-wing legal aid group defending them has condemned as a “provocation.”... More
Santiago de Chile, January 2 (RHC)-- Chile’s lawmaker of the Social Convergence party Gabriel Boric Thursday confirmed that a coalition of progressive parties will present a constitutional accusation against the Santiago Metropolitan Mayor Felipe Guevara who is one of the authorities responsible for the brutal repression that the Military Police has been performing against citizens at Dignity Square.... More
Sydney, January 2 (RHC)-- In Australia, the eastern state of New South Wales has declared a week-long state of emergency amid raging climate-fueled wildfires. ... More
Caracas, January 2 (RHC)-- During an interview in Caracas, Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro assessed the year 2019 and made a socio-political and economic prediction for 2020.... More
Tel Aviv, January 2 (RHC)-- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has officially requested parliamentary immunity from prosecution in multiple corruption cases hanging over him ahead of upcoming March elections.... More
Brasilia, January 2 (RHC)-- Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro began his term in January 2019 with a 49 percent popularity rating, however, after a year of poor economic performance, violence and unpopular neoliberal reforms the president's support has dropped almost 20 points, according to a survey conducted by the Datafolha consulting firm Wednesday.... More
Mexico City, January 2 (RHC)-- Over 15 inmates were killed and five others were severely injured on Wednesday afternoon following a fight that broke out inside a Mexican prison, the state government said.... More
Baghdad, January 2 (RHC)-- U.S. diplomats at the American Embassy in Baghdad say they have suspended all of its public consular operations, following protests by Iraqi demonstrators at the embassy to condemn Washington’s fatal military aggression targeting Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).... More
Caracas, January 2 (RHC)—Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro congratulated the Cuban Revolution on its 61st anniversary.... More
Santiago de Cuba, January 2 (RHC)- - The top authorities of the Party and Government in Santiago de Cuba, together with the Hero of the Republic of Cuba, Antonio Guerrero, paid tribute this January 1st to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz on the 61st anniversary of the triumph of the Revolution.... More
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