Honolulu, August 16 (RHC)-- A week after wildfires ravaged Hawaii’s resort town of Lahaina, search and rescue efforts on Maui island continue, with officials saying that the death toll has risen to 106.... More
Sanaa, August 16 (RHC)-- Yemen’s human rights minister says the Saudi-led war of aggression on the impoverished country has left at least 8,000 children dead since 2015. In a statement on released in Sanaa, Ali al-Dailami said that Yemeni children are falling victim either directly or indirectly to the continuing Saudi-led aggression, whether as a result of mines, cluster bombs, explosive remnants of the war or the tight blockade.... More
Mexico City, August 16 (RHC)-- Agents of Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) rescued 231 migrants on Tuesday who were traveling crammed in a metal container adapted to a trailer on the Mexico-Puebla highway, near the municipality of Tlaltenango.... More
Washington, August 16 (RHC)-- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- NASA -- has confirmed last month was the warmest July ever recorded on Earth. ... More
Quito, August 16 (RHC)-- In Ecuador, another political leader was killed Monday, less than one week after the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio and just days before Ecuadorians head to the polls this Sunday. ... More
Asunción, August 16 (RHC)-- Social, political, trade union, human rights, peasant and Indigenous Paraguayan organizations mobilized this Tuesday in the capital of the South American country in the middle of the official acts for the inauguration of Santiago Peña as president of Paraguay.... More
Tel Aviv, August 15 (RHC)-- The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem is reporting 86 members of a Palestinian Bedouin community have been forced to abandon their homes due to violent threats from Israeli settlers. ... More
Caracas, August 15 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has demanded the return of the company Citgo, a subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), after denouncing that it was stolen by the United States.... More
Montevideo, August 15 (RHC)-- Exactly 55 years after the murder of Líber Arce by the Uruguayan police and to commemorate the day of the Student Martyrs, Uruguayan students and unions demanded justice so that such acts do not happen again.... More
Niamey, August 15 (RHC)-- In Niger, the ruling military junta said they will prosecute deposed President Mohamed Bazoum for high treason following his ouster last month in the July 26th coup. The U.S. warned last week of the deteriorating health of Bazoum and two of his family members who have been held in the presidential palace in Niamey with dwindling supplies of food and no electricity.... More
Tunis, August 15 (RHC)-- The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off Tunisia’s coast has risen to at least 41, including three children. The ship capsized and sank just a few hours after departing for Europe. Dozens are still missing from another shipwreck near the Tunisian port city of Sfax.... More
London, August 15 (RHC)-- About 1,000 rapes and 2,336 sexual assaults were reported to have taken place in prisons since 2010, according to exclusive data obtained by the Observer from police forces in England and Wales. A notable increase in reported rapes and sexual assaults was reported in the years after 2016, clashing with the period when austerity began to rise, according to the figures obtained by The Guardian from the Observer.... More
Chicago, August 15 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Chicago, police have charged a 43-year-old man with first-degree murder after intentionally shooting a 9-year-old girl in the head while she was riding her scooter.... More
Caracas, August 14 (RHC)-- Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez inaugurated the 4th cycle of peace talks between the Colombian State and the National Liberation Army (ELN), which began in Caracas on Monday.... More
London, August 14 (RHC)-- Six asylum seekers have died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants to the U.K. sank in the English Channel. Several people are still missing, while 55 people were rescued in efforts largely led by French coastal authorities. ... More
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