Washington, December 23 (RHC)-- The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol has released its final 845-page report on the insurrection at the Capitol and Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. ... More
New York, December 23 (RHC)-- Oil giant Shell will pay 15 million euros ($15.9 million U$d) to communities in Nigeria that were affected by multiple oil pipeline leaks in the Niger Delta, the oil company has announced.... More
Santo Domingo, December 23 (RHC)-- The Dominican Republic's foreign minister said that sending a multinational military force to Haiti is "the only viable path." Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez called on the United Nations Security Council for a foreign military intervention as a solution to the crisis in Haiti.... More
Santiago de Chile, December 23 (RHC)--The Palestinian foreign ministry has welcomed Chile’s plans to open an embassy in the occupied territories, a move that Chilean President Gabriel Boric said will signal a demand that “international law be respected.”... More
Caracas, December 23 (RHC)-- Venezuela's Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos has announced the capture of two alleged hitmen linked to the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in Colombia. Previously, Bolivarian authorities detained two subjects identified as Gabriel Salinas Mendoza and Carlos Gomez Gomez in the municipality of Chacao.... More
Buenos Aires, December 23 (RHC)-- DNA results have confirmed that a man was one of the many babies taken from their mothers during Argentina’s dictatorship, a human rights group said on Thursday. The discovery brings the number of “stolen” children who have been identified to 131.... More
Lima, December 23 (RHC)-- A delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), visiting Peru, held a meeting on Thursday with the ousted president Pedro Castillo, who remains in preventive detention for 18 months.... More
Brasilia, December 23 (RHC)-- Brazil’s incoming President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has unveiled more cabinet picks in the run-up to his inauguration on January 1st, including Vice President-elect Geraldo Alckmin as Minister of Development, Industry and Trade.... More
Mexico City, December 23 (RHC)-- Lilia Paredes, Pedro Castillo's wife, has published a message on Twitter in which she thanked the government of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for the political asylum granted to her and her two children.... More
Montevideo, December 22 (RHC)-- Uruguay's Minister of Health, Daniel Salinas, has reported that his country is facing a new wave of COVID-19 that brings as a consequence a rise in cases of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.... More
Lima, December 22 (RHC)-- Peru's ousted president, Pedro Castillo, who has been sentenced to preventive detention for 18 months, requested on Wednesday that the delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that is in the country visit him urgently.... More
Lima, December 22 (RHC)-- Sectors of the Peruvian population have continued the mobilizations to demand the closure of the Congress, the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the release of Pedro Castillo and a Constituent Assembly. In Lima, the capital, demonstrators reiterated their indignation for the situation in the country and demanded the restitution of Castillo to the Presidency, ratifying that they do not want the authorities of the Congress to remain until 2024, but new elections must be held next year.... More
Panama City, December 22 (RHC)-- The director of Panama's National Migration Service (SNM), Samira Gozaine, said that the country is expected to close with more than 240,000 irregular migrants in 2022.... More
Berlin, December 22 (RHC)-- Twenty historic bronze sculptures have been returned to Nigeria by Germany as part of efforts to address its “dark colonial past,” its foreign minister said on Tuesday. Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, returned the prized cultural artefacts to Nigerian officials in a ceremony in the capital, Abuja. The sculptures, known as Benin bronzes, were looted from the West African country by British troops when it was under colonial rule.... More
New York, December 22 (RHC)-- A policy rider included in the must-pass omnibus spending bill unveiled by the U.S. Congress is almost certain to doom the endangered North Atlantic right whale, environmental groups said Tuesday. "It's not an exaggeration to say that this rider will doom the right whale to extinction."... More
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