Niamey, July 30 (RHC)-- Niger’s military leaders have warned against any armed intervention in the country as West African heads of state gather in Nigeria’s capital for an emergency summit to decide on further actions to pressure the army to restore constitutional order.... More
Cairo, July 30 (RHC)-- Rival Palestinian political leaders meeting in Egypt have decided to form a committee on intra-Palestinian reconciliation. President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met for rare face-to-face talks on Sunday in the coastal city of El Alamein along with representatives of most Palestinian political factions.... More
Khartoum, July 30 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization is warning of a growing health crisis for the 3.4 million people forced to flee fighting in Sudan, with rising rates of infectious diseases reported among displaced populations. ... More
La Paz, July 30 (RHC)-- Bolivia has started using the yuan, the currency of China, for its international payments for the import and export of goods, joining Brazil and Argentina in a small but growing challenge to use the Chinese currency against the hegemony of the U.S. dollar.... More
Lima, July 30 (RHC)-- Nearly one hundred people participating in the protests against the government of Dina Boluarte in the framework of the Third Seizure of Lima have been arrested during the last 24 hours by the National Police of Peru in the capital of that country.... More
Caracas, July 30 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro expressed his appreciation to those who took to the streets this Saturday to show their support to the Bolivarian Revolution project and in rejection of the unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against their country.... More
London, July 30 (RHC)-- Thousands of Britain's Rail, Maritime and Transport workers' union (RMT) have waged yet another major strike, with commuters facing a new day of train disruption across the UK. About 20,000 employees at 14 major train operators contracted by the Department for Transport began their third 24-hour strike at 9 a.m. Saturday to protest low wages and working conditions.... More
Lima, July 29 (RHC)-- New reports of police violence in la Plaza 2 de Mayo against demonstrators demanding the resignation of Peru's president-designate, Dina Boluarte, among other demands, was recorded this Saturday in Lima, while the Government held a military parade in the streets of the capital on the occasion of the celebration of Independence Day.... More
Canberra, July 29 (RHC)-- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday pushed back against Australian demands for an end to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s prosecution, saying the Australian citizen was accused of “very serious criminal conduct” in publishing a trove of classified documents more than a decade ago.... More
San Salvador, July 29 (RHC)-- In El Salvador, human rights advocates are warning of severe due process violations after lawmakers approved the use of mass trials for the tens of thousands of people who’ve been arrested under President Nayib Bukele’s brutal crackdown on gangs. ... More
Miami, July 29 (RHC)-- A new study published in Nature Communications finds Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse “around mid-century,” or as soon as 2025, due to climate change, triggering catastrophic conditions around the globe. ... More
New York, July 29 (RHC)-- Washington enabled both Ukrainian attacks on the Kerch Bridge, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed. “The Biden administration’s role in both attacks was vital,” he declared on his Substack. ... More
Moscow, July 29 (RHC)-- European nations used to be colonial overlords but now they’ve become colonial underlings of the United States, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has stated. The senior diplomat brought up Europe’s colonialist past, speaking exclusively to RT on Friday on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg. Colonialism, she stated, is in the bones of Western civilization.... More
Buenos Aires, July 29 (RHC)-- Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo confirmed the finding and restitution of the identity of grandson 133 in Argentina, being the first restitution so far in 2023. The news, reason for meeting and celebration by human rights organizations, was announced at a conference at the House for Identity of the Memory and Human Rights Space (exESMA).... More
Brasilia, July 28 (RHC)-- The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) has released data showing that around 1,327,802 people still live in "Quilombos," which were communities established by rebellious slaves who escaped before slavery was abolished.... More
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