Mexico City, December 22 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) affirmed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SER) determined to maintain diplomatic relations with Peru, after the South American nation expelled the Mexican ambassador in Lima, Pablo Monroy Conesa.... More


New York, December 22 (RHC)-- Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO once he finds someone “foolish enough to take the job.”  Musk tweeted the announcement Tuesday evening, after Twitter users voted “yes” on his poll over whether he should step down.... More


New York, December 22 (RHC)-- The United States is grappling with a shortage of children’s pain relief medications amid a winter “tripledemic” wave of COVID-19, influenza and other respiratory illnesses, according to reports citing U.S. pharma companies. ... More


Washington, December 21 (RHC)-- The IRS failed to audit former President Donald Trump for his first two years in office, while Trump paid little or no federal income taxes between 2015 and 2020. ... More


Brasilia, December 21 (RHC)-- Brazil's Federal Police (PF) arrested on Tuesday the alleged mastermind of the murders of English journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist Bruno Aráujo last June in the Amazon region, after being declared a fugitive from justice.... More


Geneva, December 21 (RHC)-- The High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, Volker Türk, held on Tuesday a virtual meeting with Peruvian authorities where he told the Foreign Minister of that country, Ana Cecilia Gervasi, that he is willing to collaborate to find a way out of the political and institutional crisis they are suffering after the dismissal of Pedro Castillo.... More


Berlin, December 21 (RHC)-- A 97-year-old woman who worked as a secretary at a Nazi concentration camp was convicted by a German court Tuesday of being an accessory to the murder of more than 10,000 people.  In what could be the last trial of its kind, Irmgard Furchner — dubbed the "secretary of evil" by German media — was handed a two-year suspended sentence for helping the Stutthof concentration camp to function during World War II.... More


London, December 21 (RHC)-- UK ambulance workers have gone on strike, widening a dispute with the government over its refusal to increase pay above inflation after recent walkouts by nurses.  Healthcare leaders warned about straining a health system already in crisis as ambulance staff at the state-run National Health Service (NHS), including paramedics and call handlers, walked out on Wednesday.... More


Buenos Aires, December 21 (RHC)-- Argentinean Haydee Gastelu de Garcia, one of the first fourteen Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, has died at the age of 94 as a result of a cerebrovascular accident.... More


Ramallah, December 21 (RHC)-- Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have declared a one-day general strike to mourn the death of prisoner Nasser Abu Hamid.  ... More


Washington, December 21 (RHC)-- U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily blocked the Biden administration from ending the contested Trump-era Title 42 pandemic policy that was set to end Wednesday.  ... More


United Nations, December 21 (RHC)-- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of the threats posed by extreme right-wing and white supremacist groups in the West in the wake of authorities in Germany uncovering a group that planned to launch a coup attempt.... More


Mexico City, December 21 (RHC)-- Early Wednesday morning, the Mexican ambassador to Peru Pablo Monroy accompanied the wife of former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo, Lilia Paredes, on her trip to Mexico, where she will reside as a political refugee.... More


Lima, December 20 (RHC)-- Peru has ordered Mexico’s ambassador, Pablo Monroy, to leave the Andean country within 72 hours, declaring him “persona non grata,” according its foreign ministry on Tuesday, after the family of its ousted president was granted asylum by the Mexican government.... More


Lima, December 20 (RHC)-- Mobilizations continue in several Peruvian regions to demand the closure of Congress, early elections, the release of former President Pedro Castillo and the resignation of President Dina Boluarte.... More


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