Kabul, January 13 (RHC)-- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered the release of 72 prisoners in defiance of U.S. pressure. The Barack Obama administration says the prisoners were involved in killing U.S. troops and Afghan civilians, but Karzai says there is insufficient evidence to warrant their continued detention. ... More
New Delhi, January 13 (RHC)-- An Indian diplomat whose arrest sparked a rift between India and the United States has returned to her home country. ... More
Kabul, January 11 (RHC)-- Blaming "poor visibility,” Afghan officials say that U.S. Marines stationed in Helmand Province have shot and killed a four year old boy.... More
Quito, January 11, (RHC), -- The Secretary of Legal Affairs of the Presidency of Ecuador, Alexis Mera, denounced on Friday that the U.S. oil conglomerate Chevron hacked private e-mails of the president of that South American nation, Rafael Correa.... More
Athens, January 11 (RHC)-- Official data show Greece’s unemployment rate rose to a new record high last year, highlighting the ravages of a six-year recession.... More
Washington, January 11 (RHC)-- The Barack Obama administration has launched an internal investigation of a drone strike that reportedly killed 12 people in Yemen last month. The victims were on their way to a wedding when they were apparently mistaken for an al-Qaeda convoy. ... More
Santiago, January 11, (RHC), -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday spoke highly of Latin America's agri-environmental policies in its report, and sorted out challenges facing sustainable development in the region.... More
Tel Aviv, January 11 (RHC)-- An international campaign to boycott Israeli products is taking a heavy toll on illegal settlers in the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank.... More
Mexico City, January 11, (RHC), – Mexican police have shot dead six suspected gang members in the northern state of Sonora, state media reported.... More
Kabul, January 11 (RHC)-- United Nations figures show that malnutrition among Afghan children has increased more than 50 percent since 2012, with medical sources blaming the U.S.-led war for the crisis.... More
London, January 11 (RHC)-- A former U.S. drone operator has criticized U.S. and British politicians and military officials for delivering false and misleading statistics about civilian deaths in Washington's drone war worldwide.... More
New Delhi, January 11 (RHC)-- The United States says it is complying with a demand from India for the expulsion of a diplomat from the South Asian country as tension between New Delhi and Washington is on the rise following a diplomatic row between the two countries.... More
Washington, January 11 (RHC)-- U.S. employers hired the fewest number of workers in almost three years during December, raising concerns about whether the job market can sustain its recent gains. ... More
Brussels, January 10 (RHC)-- A draft investigative report presented to the European Parliament legislative committee charged with investigating the scope and scale of surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency and the British GCHQ states that the activities of the controversial spy agencies were "illegal" and have "profoundly shaken" the trust between nations on both sides of the Atlantic. ... More
Ramallah, January 10 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have destroyed an entire village of Palestinian Bedouins in the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, Press TV reports. ... More
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