Washington, October 17 (RHC)-- Eighteen leaders from human rights and faith organizations were arrested in a civil disobedience action protesting the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to gut the refugee resettlement program. ... More
Philadelphia, October 17 (RHC)-- In Pennsylvania, a British family has been held in immigration detention at the Berks Family Residential Center after they say they mistakenly drove across the U.S.-Canada border during a vacation to Vancouver. ... More
Ottawa, October 17 (RHC)-- In Canada, a member of the Mohawk community in Kanehsatà:ke in southwestern Quebec has gone on a hunger strike amid an escalating land struggle between the First Nations tribe and real estate developers. The residents are asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to implement a short-term moratorium on all development in their territory. Trudeau has promised reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations. He’s facing the possibility of being unseated in Canada’s federal elections next week. ... More
Amsterdam, October 17 (RHC)-- Traffic on some of the busiest roads in the Netherlands ground to a halt on Wednesday as Dutch farmers ramped up protests against farming taking the rap for climate change. ... More
London, October 17 (RHC)-- Britain and the European Union say they’ve reached a new Brexit deal ahead of the October 31st deadline for Britain to leave the European Union. The deal will still need to be ratified by both British lawmakers and European leaders. ... More
Caracas, October 17 (RHC)-- The Minister of Communications of Venezuela Jorge Rodríguez said that progress has been made around the agreement between the government and opposition parties, one month after the installation of the political dialogue in Caracas. ... More
Quito, October 17 (RHC)-- Unemployment in Ecuador reached 4.9 percent in September, growing 0.9 percent since September 2018, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) reported Wednesday. ... More
Brasilia, October 17 (RHC)-- Brazil's National Congress is discussing a proposal sent by President Jair Bolsonaro to put an end to the "minimum wage valuation policy" which currently increases the worker's income above the percentage of inflation increase.... More
Belgrade, October 17 (RHC)—The vice-president of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, Ana María Mari Machado, condemned Wednesday the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba at the 141st General Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).... More
United Nations, October 17 (RHC)-- Despite nearly 60 years of U.S. blockade, Cuba currently excels in social indicators and meets several goals set by the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.... More
Havana, October 17 (RHC)--Cuban health authorities assured Wednesday that the application of the vaccine against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) was not the cause of the death of infant Paloma Domínguez Caballero, last October 9, and of adverse symptoms in four babies.... More
Havana, October 17 (RHC)-- President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez headed a meeting to check the country's industrial program, which analyzed the current state and development prospects of the island´s Chemical Industry, a sector of great complexity due to the diversity of its productions and the technologies involved in it.... More
Havana, October 16 (RHC)—Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received on Wednesday the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union, and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain, His Excellency Josep Borrell Fontelles, who is on an official visit to the island.... More
Havana, October 16 (RHC)-- Spain's King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will visit Cuba next month as part of the 500th-anniversary celebrations of the island nation's capital Havana, the European Country’s Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said on Wednesday.... More
La Paz, October 16 (RHC)-- Over half a million Bolivians attended the closing of the presidential campaign of Evo Morales in Santa Cruz, where the Movement for Socialism (MAS) candidate was hosting his event.... More
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