Havana, June 16 (RHC)-- Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi praises the growing cooperation between the Islamic Republic and Cuba as a source of hope for independent nations and a cause of frustration for global imperialist powers. Raeisi made these comments in Havana on Thursday during a joint meeting of the senior delegations of Iran and Cuba.... More
Washington, June 16 (RHC)-- Daniel Ellsberg, a whistleblower famed for exposing government deception over the United States’s war in Vietnam and an outspoken opponent of nuclear weapons, has died at the age of 92 from pancreatic cancer. The Washington Post was the first to report that Ellsberg died on Friday, citing a statement from his family.... More
Bonn, June 16 (RHC)-- As United Nations climate talks came to a disappointing conclusion in Germany on Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres delivered remarks in New York City targeting "the polluted heart of the climate crisis: the fossil fuel industry."... More
Caracas, June 16 (RHC)-- Leading carmakers Iran Khodro and Saipa will offer their products to clients in Venezuela in the next coming months, and export vehicles and parts to other Latin American countries.... More
New Delhi, June 16 (RHC)-- Roofs have been blown off houses and trees and electric poles uprooted, leaving thousands without power as a severe cyclone makes landfall and heavy rains lash both the Indian and Pakistani coasts. At least two people died in India’s western state of Gujarat after being swept away by floods just before the cyclone hit, officials said on Friday.... More
Ramallah, June 16 (RHC)-- Israeli forces killed a 19-year-old Palestinian and injured at least eight others during a raid on the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. The soldiers were searching for another man when they started firing on people in the vicinity of his home. ... More
Tegucigalpa, June 16 (RHC)-- The Secretary of State in the Office of Energy of Honduras, Erick Tejada has denounced that the people and users are subjected to sabotage at a national level, due to attacks against the electrical system of the Central American country.... More
Athens, June 16 (RHC)-- Protests have taken place across Greece over the sinking of a boat carrying migrants and refugees that left at least 78 people dead. More than 100 people were rescued from a capsized boat off the coast of Pylos but hopes have faded for hundreds of others who were still missing.... More
Gaza City, June 16 (RHC)-- A senior official with the Hamas resistance movement says the policies pursued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right cabinet in the occupied Palestinian territories will set the entire region ablaze.... More
Quito, June 16 (RHC)-- The presidential candidate of Ecuador, Luisa González, said Thursday that currently the South American country "is so devastated" that it needs the Citizen Revolution movement to bring it forward again, as happened in 2007.... More
Athens, June 16 (RHC)-- The Greek coastguard says nine survivors from the refugee ship that sank off the country’s coast have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to the smuggling ring that arranged the voyage. State-run ERT TV said on Thursday the suspects were all Egyptian nationals.... More
Hundreds of groups say Biden has no place at Climate Ambition Summit until he stops new oil projects
Washington, June 16 (RHC)-- More than 500 advocacy groups from six continents urged U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday to declare a climate emergency and halt the further expansion of fossil fuel production ahead of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' September 20 Climate Ambition Summit in New York City.... More
New York, June 16 (RHC)-- In New York, a grand jury has indicted former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny over the killing of Jordan Neely on a city subway on May 1st. ... More
Warsaw, June 16 (RHC)-- Thousands of protesters took to the streets of cities across Poland after a pregnant woman died when medical workers refused to provide her with a life-saving abortion.... More
Athens, June 15 (RHC)-- At least 79 migrants have died and hundreds of others went missing after their overloaded boat capsized on its way to Greece. The incident took place on Wednesday, marking one of Europe's deadliest shipping disasters in recent years.... More
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