Washington, March 13 (RHC)-- A hunger-striking Guantánamo prisoner has filed the first-ever legal challenge to force-feeding at the prison in U.S. federal courts. Emad Hassan is said to have been force-fed over 5,000 times since his first hunger strike in 2005. ... More
New Orleans, March 13 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Louisiana, a prisoner has been freed after 30 years on death row. Glenn Ford walked out of the Angola penitentiary on Tuesday after a judge vacated his murder conviction and death sentence. ... More
Seattle, March 13 (RHC)-- At least 750 prisoners at a Washington state immigration jail have launched a hunger strike. The strikers at the Northwest Detention Center are protesting the Barack Obama administration’s record deportations as well as poor conditions that include wages of just one dollar a day for prison labor. ... More
Literature, cuisine, music, films, visual arts and theater will top the agenda of the French Culture Festival -Francofonia 2014-, set for the Cuban capital from March 15 through 23, with the eastern city of Santiago of Cuba as a sub-venue.... More
Washington, March 12 (RHC)-- White House press secretary Jay Carney says U.S. military exercises with Romanian and Bulgarian warships in the Black Sea "speak in a clear voice" to Russia.... More
Paramaribo, March 12 (RHC) -- Desi Bouterse, the current head of Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), pledged to call a meeting of regional leaders to discuss the situation in Venezuela -- gripped by more than one-month of violent riots.... More
Moscow, March 12 (RHC)-- Russia has said U.S. efforts to provide financial aid to Ukraine’s pro-Western government are illegal.... More
Santiago, March 12 (RHC) -- Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who was sworn in Tuesday for a second four-year term, vowed to strengthen relations with Latin American and Asia Pacific countries.... More
Washington, March 12 (RHC)-- The spat between the CIA and its U.S. Senate overseers has intensified with open sparring in public. On Tuesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein took to the Senate floor to directly accuse the CIA of spying on staffers and their computers in an effort to undermine the panel’s exhaustive report on the agency’s torture and rendition program. ... More
Kingstown, March 12 (RHC) -– Dozens of Caribbean states have agreed to launch a legal action against European countries involved in slave trade of the 17th and 18th centuries, Press TV news channel reported.... More
Port au Prince, March 12 (RHC) -- Some 1,500 Haitians have launched a lawsuit against the United Nations, seeking compensation for victims of a cholera outbreak in the Caribbean country, attributed to the UN forces.... More
Tel Aviv, March 12 (RHC)-- Israel has passed a new electoral law that elevates the threshold of votes that political parties require in elections to gain seats in the country's parliament, known as the Knesset.... More
Beijing, March 12 (RHC)-- The search for the missing airliner that vanished en route from Malaysia to China is reportedly focusing on Malaysia’s west coast, far from the opposite coast where the plane last made contact with air traffic control. ... More
Tokyo, March 12 (RHC)-- Japan marked the third anniversary on Tuesday of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis, when a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami on its northeast coast. The twin disasters resulted in an unprecedented triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. ... More
Washington, March 12 (RHC)-- The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly approved a measure to overhaul prosecution of sexual assault in the military. Passed by a unanimous 97-to-0 vote, the bill scraps the century-old "good soldier defense" that allows defendants to present evidence during trial of a positive military character. ... More
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