Caracas, July 9 (RHC)-- The news multiplatform teleSUR received a recognition during the XIV edition of the Aníbal Nazoa Award that was delivered in Venezuela.  ... More


United Nations, July 9 (RHC)-- A United Nations committee has called on France to ensure the investigation into the killing of Nahel, the teenager shot dead by police near Paris, is "thorough and impartial," and called for racial profiling to be banned.... More


Tegucigalpa, July 8 (RHC)-- The Honduran Minister of Foreign Affairs, Enrique Reina, announced that on Sunday, July 9th, a UN mission will arrive in the country to collaborate in the creation of a mechanism against corruption and impunity.... More


Tel Aviv, July 8 (RHC)-- Israel is preparing to buy its third fleet of F 35 stealth fighter jets in a deal worth $3 billion, which is set to be finalized in the coming months.  Israel's Ministry of Military Affairs approved the purchase this week.  The additional 25 aircraft, manufactured by U.S. aviation and military giant Lockheed Martin, will increase the number of F 35 jets in Israel's Air Force to 75.... More


New York, July 8 (RHC)-- A new study has highlighted the possibility of major harvest failures caused by climate change in multiple global breadbaskets as the United Nations warned of a “dystopian future” without immediate action.  Scientists said on Tuesday their report should be a “wake-up call” about the threat climate change poses to our food systems.... More


Leticia, Colombia, July 8 (RHC)-- Colombian President Gustavo Petro today received his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, at the National University of Leticia, Amazonas, where they will join forces in defense of the Amazon.... More


Athens, July 8 (RHC)-- Greece said it has recovered hundreds of looted Neolithic to Byzantine artefacts including a second-century bronze statue of Alexander the Great from a notorious British antiquities dealer after a 17-year legal battle.... More


United Nations, July 8 (RHC)-- During the last session of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), Russia and China were skeptical about sending a multinational military force into Haiti.... More


Lima, July 8 (RHC)-- Anti-narcotics authorities of Peru have intercepted a shipment of 58 kg (127 pounds) of cocaine headed to Belgium, which was concealed in packages that bearing the Nazi insignia and imprinted with the name of Germany’s wartime leader Hitler.... More


United Nations, July 8 (RHC)-- Members of the United Nations Security Council , have voiced support for deploying a multinational armed force to Haiti.  The meeting follows a trip to Haiti by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, who appealed for the international community to “act now” on Haiti.... More


Paris, July 8 (RHC)-- Police in France gained the power to remotely activate and monitor the camera, microphone, and GPS of a suspect’s devices under a so-called “Justice Reform Bill” that passed the National Assembly this past week, according to media reports.  ... More


Ramallah, July 8 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have gunned down yet another Palestinian in the northern West Bank, shortly after killing two elsewhere in the occupied territory.  The latest fatality, named 24-year-old Abdel Jawad Hamdan Saleh, was caused on Friday during a demonstration against Israel's illegal settlements in the village of Umm Safa north of the city of Ramallah, the Palestinian health ministry announced.... More


Buenos Aires, July 8 (RHC)-- Latin American and Caribbean countries reiterated their position of neutrality and the call for a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Eastern Europe, regarding the upcoming summit that the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union will hold on July 17th and 18th in Brussels. ... More


London, July 7 (RHC)-- In the United Kingdom, members of the climate action group Extinction Rebellion have shut down operations at the nation’s largest coal mine in a nonviolent civil disobedience action.  The open-pit mine in South Wales had been operating without a license. ... More


Santiago de Chile, July 7 (RHC)-- The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has released a new special report on a regional agenda for productive development around lithium. ... More


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