Caracas, August 28 (RHC)-- Thousands of Venezuelans mobilized over the weekend in massive acts of support to the government of President Nicolás Maduro, in favor of peace and in rejection of the unilateral restrictive measures imposed by the United States and the European Union.... More
Seattle, August 28 (RHC)-- Labor officials issued a much-anticipated decision that could make it far easier for workers to unionize in the face of employers who break labor laws in union elections.... More
Jacksonville, August 28 (RHC)-- In Jacksonville, Florida, a gunman shot and killed three Black people over the weekend in a racist attack which the U.S. Justice Department is investigating as a hate crime.... More
Guatemala City, August 28 (RHC)-- In Guatemala, a former military colonel has been convicted of crimes against humanity for his involvement in the killing of over two dozen Indigenous people in 1982. Juan Ovalle Salazar was sentenced to 20 years in prison. ... More
Ramallah, August 28 (RHC)-- More than 170 Israeli settlers, under heavy protection by the regime forces, have broken into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds in the latest act of provocation against the sacred site.... More
Brasilia, August 28 (Prensa Latina)-- Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, impeached in a legal manuver by the right-wing opposition in 2016 -- a judicial parliamentary coup -- may have a symbolic return of her mandate, according to Gleisi Hoffmann, head of the Workers' Party (PT).... More
New York, August 28 (RHC)-- Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign says it raised more than $7 million after he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia on charges he schemed to overturn the 2020 election in the state.... More
United Nations, August 28 (RHC)-- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reports that more than 2 million children were forced from their homes in the four months of the Sudan conflict, and close to 14 million children are in urgent need of humanitarian support.... More
Tel Aviv, August 28 (RHC)-- Israel’s far-right national security minister has sparred with U.S. supermodel Bella Hadid over comments last week that Palestinians condemned as racist. In an interview with N12 News, Itamar Ben-Gvir said that the right to life and movement for settlers in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank trumped the right to movement for Palestinians.... More
Panama City, August 27 (RHC)-- The Panama Canal, a vital passageway that moves 6 percent of the world’s maritime commerce, will extend transit restrictions due to drought-induced low water levels. Canal authorities first announced restrictions this year, creating a backlog of vessels waiting to cross. But on Thursday, those restrictions were extended for at least 10 additional months.... More
Port-au-Prince, August 27 (RHC)-- In recent weeks, the Carrefour-Feuille neighborhood in the southeast of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, has been under constant harassment by gangs resulting in thousands of residents being forced to flee their homes in the face of lax authorities.... More
Luanda, August 27 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed Saturday in the Angolan capital, Luanda, the need to enhance bilateral relations between his country and Africa in technology and knowledge development, affirming that both economies can grow together.... More
Washington, August 26 (RHC)-- Thousands of Americans converged on the US capital to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, a pivotal event in the 1960s civil rights movement at which Martin Luther King Jr gave his galvanising “I Have a Dream” speech.... More
Santiago de Chile, August 26 (RHC)-- Declassified documents recently released in Santiago de Chile confirm that former U.S. President Richard Nixon knew about the plans for the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile against the government of Salvador Allende.... More
Luanda, August 26 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says Tehran should continue to be an important commercial partner for Brasília in the coming years. “For the first time, I met with Ebrahim Raeisi, the president of Iran, one of the countries that will join the BRICS as of 2024,” Lula wrote in a post published on his X (formerly known as X) page, after a summit of the bloc in Johannesburg.... More
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