A Spanish Civil Guard officer checks migrants at Punta Salinas beach in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands.  (Photo: Carlos de Saa/EPA) 

Fuerteventura, December 27 (RHC)-- Around 100 refugees and migrants were rescued off the coast of Spain on Thursday, adding to around another 200 taken off makeshift boats on Christmas Day, Spain's maritime rescue service said.... More


 Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz attends a weekly cabinet meeting in occupied Jerusalem. (Photo: Reuters)

Tel Aviv, December 27 (RHC)-- Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz says the Tel Aviv regime would return to “the policy of assassinations” against distinguished figures of Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip, as its acts of aggression against the besieged coastal enclave continue unabated.... More


Lima, December 27 (RHC)-- Peru's labor watchdog has found McDonald's Corp's Latin America franchisee Arcos Dorados guilty of six "very serious" violations of local safety and health laws following the deaths of two employees in a restaurant kitchen.... More


The Iyooyoo travel agency in the municipality of Shanghai, east China, will represent Cuba in the 2020 calendar through a photograph of a street in Havana with several old cars.... More


Bolivian security forces outside Mexico's official diplomatic facilities in La Paz, December 26.  (Photo: Twitter/ @_dblancog)

La Paz, December 27 (RHC)-- Mexico's Ambassador to Bolivia Teresa Mercado reports that Bolivian security officers harassed Spanish diplomats as they were trying to enter her official residence in La Paz on Friday morning.... More


Buenos Aires, December 27 (RHC)-- Bolivian leader Evo Morales says he was forced from office by a U.S.-backed coup aimed at gaining access to the South American country's vast lithium resources. The remarks came in an exclusive interview with AFP news agency, over a month after Morales resigned as president on November 10th following protests against his re-election.... More


Caracas, December 27 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan indigenous leaders grouped in the Council of General Caciques denounced the attack that took place last Sunday on the southern military headquarters in the South American country.... More


Ottawa, December 27 (RHC)-- In Canada, indigenous communities are condemning the Canadian government after it was revealed that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police prepared for the potential use of lethal force against indigenous land defenders resisting the construction of a natural gas pipeline on the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s ancestral land in British Columbia.... More


Washington, December 27 (RHC)-- U.S. President Donald Trump met with accused war criminal Eddie Gallagher, a month after Trump overruled his own military leaders and granted clemency to three U.S. soldiers who have been accused or convicted of war crimes — including Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.... More


Israeli troopers stand by during clashes with Palestinian demonstrators in the occupied West Bank. (Photo: AFP)

Geneva, December 27 (RHC)-- The United Nations’ anti-racism panel is set to probe grievances by Palestinians holding Israel responsible for practicing “apartheid” in the Tel Aviv-occupied West Bank.... More


Washington, December 27 (RHC)-- U.S. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has warned Britain about allowing China’s Huawei company into its 5G telecommunications networks, saying such a move would pose a risk to UK’s secret intelligence agencies, according to British media.... More


London, December 27 (RHC)-- A UK-based charity has revealed that Britain's arms sales to Saudi Arabia and its allies in their aggression on Yemen have seen an almost 50-percent rise over the past five years.... More


Manila, December 27 (RHC)-- In the Philippines, at least 21 people were killed, and many more are missing, after Typhoon Phanfone slammed into several central islands on Christmas Day.... More


Havana, December 27 (RHC)--The first bioelectric plant to be built in Cuba with foreign investment is in its final phase of execution and will be operational in early 2020.... More


Havana, December 27 (RHC)--The last meeting of the Council of Ministers of the year 2019 was held Tuesday at the Palace of the Revolution, headed by Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic of Cuba, and led by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.... More


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