Brasilia, January 9 (RHC)-- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited on Sunday night the Planalto Palace in the capital Brasilia, the Congress and the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to assess the scale of the damage caused by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro.... More


United Nations, January 9 (RHC)-- The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, strongly condemned on Sunday the assault on the Congress headquarters, the Supreme Court of Justice and the Presidential Palace in Brazil by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro.... More


Brasilia, January 8 (RHC)-- Several hours after the storming of Brazil's Congress and the Supreme Court, police forces reestablished order and detained hundreds of supporters of former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. ... More


Brasilia, January 8 (RHC)-- President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva today decreed federal intervention in the Federal District (DF) in the face of invasions by followers of former president Jair Bolsonaro to the headquarters of three branches of government in Brazil.... More


Brazilia, January 8 (RHC)-- Supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro took this Sunday by force the National Congress, breaking the blockade carried out by the Military Police and the National Security Force at the Esplanade of the Ministries in Brasilia.... More


Ramallah, January 8 (RHC)-- A far-right Israeli minister, who attracted international uproar by storming the al-Aqsa Mosque's compound recently, causes yet another scandal by visiting a high-security Israeli prison to make sure Palestinian inmates' conditions there has not improved.... More


Ramallah, January 8 (RHC)-- Palestinian authorities say the Israeli regime’s threats of sanctions will not discourage Palestinians from pressing ahead with their bid at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).... More


Bogota, January 8 (RHC)-- The bodies of two young men have been found in the undercarriage of an Avianca plane during maintenance in Colombian capital Bogota, according to the airline and the attorney general’s office of Colombia.  The bodies were discovered by airline personnel after the plane from Santiago de Chile, landed in Bogota on Friday evening.... More


Rome, January 8 (RHC)-- At least five people have died and 10 are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying migrants and refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Tunisia to Italy sank.  The boat sank off of Louata, in the Sfax region, a Tunisian judicial official said on Saturday. Another 20 people were rescued by the Tunisian coastguard.... More


Newport News, January 8 (RHC)-- A six-year-old student shot and wounded a teacher in Virginia during an altercation inside a first-grade classroom, police and school officials in the city of Newport News said.   No students were injured in the shooting on Friday at Richneck Elementary School, police said. The teacher – a woman in her 30s – suffered life-threatening injuries.... More


Washington, January 7 (RHC)-- Former U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ana Belen Montes was released from prison on Saturday, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.... More


Caracas, January 7 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro received this Saturday his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, with whom he will discuss issues of bilateral interest, after their first meeting on November 1st last year.... More


Washington, January 7 (RHC)-- Venezuela's opposition has shut down its "embassy" in Washington after removing U.S.-backed Juan Guaido and dissolving his so-called "interim government."... More


London, January 7 (RHC)-- Last year was the hottest year on record in the United Kingdom, the national meteorological service reported, emphasizing that the human-caused climate emergency was what drove the country to see record-breaking heat last summer and an annual average temperature of 50°F, or 10.03°C.... More


Brasilia, January 7 (RHC)-- Brazil's Foreign Affairs Ministry announced the country will once again adhere to Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), which is an inter-governmentally negotiated agreement prepared under the auspices of the United Nations.... More


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