Niamey, July 28 (RHC)-- In Niger, military officers announced Wednesday they had overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum, imposing a curfew and shutting down borders in the West African nation. ... More
Santiago de Chile, July 28 (RHC)-- In Chile, teachers walked off the job Wednesday for a 24-hour nationwide strike, demanding the government make good on promises to reimburse teachers for a “historical debt” incurred when the former dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet slashed their salaries and pensions. ... More
Tunis, July 27 (RHC)-- The bodies of at least 901 drowned refugees and migrants have been found off the coast of Tunisia between January 1 and July 20 of this year, according to the country’s Interior Minister Kamel Feki.... More
New York, July 27 (RHC)-- The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has become the largest US scholars union to endorse a Palestinian resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, according to a statement released on Monday by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. ... More
Jerusalem, July 27 (RHC)-- Israel’s far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has led a group of more than one thousand ultranationalist settlers to the Al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem, his third such entrance to the site this year.... More
Brussels, July 27 (RHC)-- The European Union watchdog has announced a probe into the bloc’s border patrol agency, Frontex, over its actions during a deadly shipwreck off Greece.... More
Quito, July 27 (RHC)-- The death toll from a wave of jail riots in Ecuador’s most dangerous prison has reached 31, authorities say, hours as the government declared a 60-day state of emergency for the country's prisons. The development came late on Tuesday after some 2,700 soldiers were deployed to take control of the over-crowded Guayas 1 prison in the port city of Guayaquil.... More
St. Petersburg, July 27 (RHC)-- President Vladimir Zelensky’s demand for preconditions to be met before Kiev engages in peace talks with Moscow is understandable but also “perhaps unreasonable,” according to the president of Comoros, Azali Assoumani, who currently chairs the African Union (AU). He added that Zelensky had acknowledged African leaders’ belief that his country’s conflict with Russia cannot be resolved through military means, during a meeting last month.... More
Caracas, July 27 (RHC)-- Venezuelan authorities received the head of the National Council of Palestine, Rawhi Fattouh, with the aim of strengthening bilateral, diplomatic and trade relations between the two nations.... More
Tallahassee, July 27 (RHC)-- Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis was supposed to push ahead with his campaign over the past several days, but the moment was overshadowed by Donald Trump. ... More
Washington, July 27 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden has designated a national monument across three locations in Illinois and Mississippi honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. ... More
Washington, July 27 (RHC)-- The Biden administration has filed a lawsuit against Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott over the state’s installation of barrels wrapped in razor wire in the Rio Grande as an attempt to block asylum seekers from crossing the river. ... More
Oslo, July 27 (RHC)-- In Sweden, climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested as she joined a nonviolent civil disobedience protest outside an oil terminal in the southern city of Malmö. Thunberg’s arrest came just hours after she was fined by a Swedish court for disobeying police during a protest at the same oil terminal in June. ... More
New York, July 27 (RHC)-- A new study finds this month’s record-shattering global heat wave would not have been possible without the continuing buildup of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere due to human activity. ... More
Tehran, July 27 (RHC)-- Muslim-majority nations have angrily criticized the governments of Denmark and Sweden for repeatedly allowing the burning of the Quran during protests in their capitals. The latest incident, during which the Muslim holy book was trampled on and destroyed, took place in Copenhagen on Monday.... More
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