New York, June 12 (RHC)-- New York City has settled a lawsuit over the false arrest of more than a dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters in 2011. The city will pay $583,000 to plaintiffs detained after officers surrounded them and refused to let them disperse. ... More
Bogotá, June 11 (NNN-RHC) -- The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Colombia, Fabrizio Hochschild, welcomed a peace initiative announced jointly by the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group.... More
Caracas, June 11 (PL-RHC) -- The situation in Venezuela, a target of violent actions generated by the extreme right, is a highlight on the agenda of the 13th Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) in Venezuela's capital.... More
Geneva, June 11 (RHC)-- The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has censured the Bahraini regime for human rights violations in the country. On Tuesday, 46 members of the international body expressed deep concern over the Al Khalifa regime's crackdown on peaceful protesters.... More
Washington, June 11 (RHC)-- In a move that is being described as a victory for ultra right-wing forces in the United States, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has lost Virginia’s Republican primary in one of the biggest upsets in Congressional history. Cantor fell to Tea Party challenger David Brat, whose campaign accused Cantor of being insufficiently right-wing. ... More
Saint John's, June 11 (PL-RHC) -- The Community of the Caribbean (CARICOM) and the Organization of American States (OAS) will be observers in the general election to be held Thursday in Antigua and Barbuda.... More
Baghdad, June 11 (RHC)-- An estimated 500,000 people have fled Iraq’s second-largest city following its capture by Al Qaeda militants. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — ISIL — seized Mosul on Tuesday with a sweeping attack on the city’s airport, TV stations, government buildings, and prisons, setting over 2,000 inmates free. ... More
Brasilia, June 11 (NNN-RHC) -- Brazil's political parties launched their primaries to elect candidates for the upcoming general elections in October.... More
Portland, June 11 (RHC)-- A high school student has been killed and a teacher wounded in a school shooting in the U.S. state of Oregon that also left the gunman dead.... More
Asunción, June 11 (PL-RHC) -- More than 50,000 people were forced to leave their homes in Paraguay's capital Asunción, faced with increased floods due to the overflow of the river Paraguay.... More
Washington, June 11 (RHC)-- A top official at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has been removed amid accusations of failing to investigate abuses and deadly shootings by agents on the Mexican border.... More
Washington, June 11 (RHC)-- U.S. private prisons with over 25,000 inmates violate human rights by subjecting prisoners to systematic abuse, according to a report issued on Tuesday.... More
Brussels, June 10 (RHC)-- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, has commenced war games near Russia's border as tensions rise between the West and Moscow over Ukraine. ... More
Quito, June 10 (PL-RHC) -- Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño is in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, for a meeting of the Political Committee of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), during which he will express interest in knowing more about the nationwide Government-opposition peace dialogue in Venezuela.... More
Kabul, June 10 (RHC)-- Five U.S. soldiers and at least one Afghan soldier have been killed in what appears to be one of the deadliest instances of friendly fire of the war in Afghanistan. The soldiers were mistakenly killed by an airstrike that was called in by U.S. troops to beat back a Taliban ambush. ... More
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