Mexico's president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a news conference at the campaign headquarters in Mexico City, Mexico July 15, 2018.   Photo: Reuters

Mexico City, July 17 (RHC)-- Mexico's president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has announced he will cut his own salary by 60 percent once he is sworn in.  ... More


Pope Francis will participate in AMLO's proposed Mexican peace process.  Photo: Reuters Archive

Mexico City, July 17 (RHC)-- Pope Francis has accepted an invitation to participate in the framework of the consultations that the team of Mexican president-elect will carry out, in order to create strategies to decrease violence and insecurity in the country.  ... More


 ICE agents await migrants on the border.  Photo: AP

Sacramento, July 17 (RHC)-- In the United States, nine immigrant women who were arrested by ICE agents during the summer of 2017 say in a new lawsuit they were shackled and held in a hot, windowless van for hours, leaving them fainting, vomiting, struggling to breathe and expecting to die. ... More


Havana, July 17 (RHC)— The presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, Nicolas Maduro and Evo Morales, are in Cuba to attend  the 24th annual meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum which is closing at Havana´s Convention Center on Tuesday.... More


Havana, July 16 (RHC)-- Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sent a message to participants in the 24th Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum, a space for political agreements of the Left in Latin America and the Caribbean that Lula helped to found together with Fidel Castro in 1990.... More


Brussels, July 16 (RHC)-- A Cuban delegation, presided over by Deputy Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno Fernández, is participating in the 2nd Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the  European Union (EU), July 16th and 17th in Brussels, Belgium.... More


Former Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patiño. Photo: Youtube

Havana, July 16 (RHC)-- Participants at the 24th Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum in Havana have denounced the political and judicial persecution that Latin American left-wing leaders are being subjected to, calling on social movements and progressive forces in the region to express their solidarity.... More


Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.  Photo: Reuters

Brasilia, July 16 (RHC)-- Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has taken to his Twitter account to speak to the people of Brazil about the denial of his habeas corpus last week, which would have allowed him to walk free from prison. ... More


An explosion is seen in northern Gaza City after an airstrike carried out by an Israeli warplane on June 20, 2018.  Photo: AFP

Gaza City, July 16 (RHC)-- Israeli warplanes over the weekend carried out a number of airstrikes against the southern part of the Gaza Strip, as the Tel Aviv regime continues with its acts of aggression against the besieged Palestinian coastal territory. ... More


Trump calls on parents to pay for return of their children.  Photo: AP

New York, July 16 (RHC)-- The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reports that migrant parents who were forcibly separated from their children at the southwest border have been asked to pay for the costs of reunification. ... More


One of the billboards features a February headline, reading "Trump calls media enemy of the people."  Photo: AFP

Helsinki, July 16 (RHC)-- The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was mocked by the largest newspaper in Finland. ... More


 Activists call for boycotting Israel.  Photo: BDSMovement

Dublin, July 16 (RHC)-- The Irish senate has approved the Occupied Territories Bill, which bans all trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.... More


U.S. air strike on Syria.  Photo: AFP

Damascus, July 16 (RHC)-- Israel has targeted a Syrian military site in the Aleppo countryside in a missile attack causing structural damage. ... More


Evacuee Miyo Takeuchi, 7, eats a meal with her family at Okada elementary school, which is acting a temporary shelter for flood victims in Mabi town in Kurashik

Tokyo, July 16 (RHC)-- Japan's death toll climbed to more than 200 after rains, floods, and landslides devastated parts of the country.... More


Emmett Till's brutalized body was displayed to show racist violence.  Photo: File

Washington, July 16 (RHC)-- The U.S. Justice Department has reopened the investigation into the brutal 1955 murder of Emmett Till... More


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