Gaza City, August 6 (RHC)-- Palestinian residents of Gaza are returning to massive devastation on the second day of a 72-hour ceasefire. Estimates of the reconstruction costs run as high as $6 billion. More than 10,000 homes have been destroyed and more than 5,000 have seen major damage. ... More
Caracas, August 6 (RHC) -- Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez on Tuesday said the country's energy sector has brought in 510 billion U.S. dollars in oil revenues since it was nationalized in 2003.... More
Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama has raised the prospect of new executive action on immigration reform after Congress failed to send him legislation. ... More
Buenos Aires, August 6 (Mercopress-RHC) -- The 83-year-old head of the Argentinian human rights movement which works to track down babies stolen by the country's brutal 1976-83 military dictatorship has found her grandson after a 35-year search.... More
Washington, August 6 (RHC)-- U.S. President Barack Obama is backing Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan in the face of calls for Brennan’s resignation. Brennan admitted last week that CIA officials spied on a Senate panel probing the agency’s torture and rendition program, months after he made an initial denial. ... More
Buenos Aires, August 5 (RHC) -- Argentina's Legal and Technical Secretary to the Presidency, Carlos Zannini, is overseeing a group of experts in international law as they draft the suit the government of President Cristina Fernandez will file against U.S. Judge Thomas Griesa. The judge recently ruled on full repayment to holdout bondholders at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. ... More
Santiago, August 5 (RHC) -- The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has lowered its economic growth forecast for the region to 2.2 percent, the UN agency said Monday.... More
Tel Aviv, August 5 (RHC)-- The Israeli army plans to continue its deadly attacks in the besieged Gaza Strip, after conducting massacres in the blockaded territory for over four weeks.... More
Baghdad, August 5 (RHC)-- In northern Iraq, Kurdish security forces are battling Sunni militants near the site of the country’s largest dam. ... More
Freetown, August 5 (RHC)-- In West Africa, the death toll from a historic outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus has risen to 887, with more than 1,600 people infected. ... More
Rome, August 5 (Mercopress-RHC) -- In Latin America and the Caribbean, more food is lost and wasted than is needed to meet the nutritional needs of the 47 million people who still suffer from hunger in the region, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.... More
Beijing, August 4 (RHC)-- At least 367 people have been killed and more than 1,400 injured after a massive earthquake hit southern China’s mountainous Yunnan Province. About 12,000 homes also collapsed in Ludian, which is a densely populated county located around 366 kilometers northeast of Yunnan’s capital, Kunming, according to the Xinhua news agency.... More
New York, August 4 (RHC)-- The UN and Amnesty International have strongly condemned U.S. military support for Israel, pointing to the shelling of a United Nations school last week that killed at least 20 people, many of them children who were sleeping. Just hours later, the Pentagon confirmed it was resupplying Israel with ammunition. ... More
Washington, August 4 (RHC)-- Barack Obama has the authority as the president of the United States to close the Guantanamo prison as he believes torture is bad, according to a political commentator in Washington.... More
Lima, August 4 (Andina) -- The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will update its growth estimates for the region's countries this year, as part of its Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2014.... More
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