Brasilia, December 2 (RHC)-- Between August 2021 and July 2022, the deforested area of the Amazon region reached 11 568 square kilometers, said the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). According to INPE data released on Wednesday, the figure indicates a decrease of 11.27 percent compared to the period from August 2020 to July 202, when 13 038 square kilometers of forest were lost.... More
United Nations, December 2 (RHC)-- The United Nations General Assembly has voted in a favor of a pro-Palestinian resolution to commemorate the Nakba (Catastrophe) Day, which marks the Israeli regime’s claiming existence in 1948. The Assembly adopted the resolution on Wednesday, with 90 votes in favor, 30 negative votes and 47 abstentions. ... More
Washington, December 2 (RHC)-- The founder of the website Cryptome.org has written to the U.S. Justice Department with an unusual request: He is asking to be indicted for violating the Espionage Act. Cryptome’s founder John Young says he should be added as a co-defendant in the prosecution of WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange because he published the same leaked government documents at the center of the U.S. case against Assange. ... More
Caracas, December 2 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a meeting with former Colombian President and former Secretary General of UNASUR, Ernesto Samper to join efforts for the revival of regional integration. President Maduro was accompanied by the country's Vice Oresident, Delcy Rodríguez.... More
Kabul, December 2 (RHC)-- At least 16 people have been killed, mostly children, and dozens of others injured in a powerful explosion at a religious school in northern Afghanistan’s city of Aybak, the capital of Samangan province. A doctor in Aybak, about 200 kilometers (130 miles) north of the capital Kabul, told AFP that most of the dead and wounded were children.... More
Bogota, December 2 (RHC)-- On behalf of the Colombian State, President Gustavo Petro apologized to the victims for the massacres committed by paramilitaries in La Granja and El Aro and described them as genocides in which the State took part either by action or omission.... More
London, December 1 (RHC)-- The UK government has rejected workers' requests for better pay, after ambulance workers joined nurses in voting to go on strike. "Our economic circumstances mean unions' demands are not affordable," Health Secretary Steve Barclay said on Wednesday, after the Unison union confirmed the ambulance service faced its biggest strike in 30 years.... More
Caracas, December 1 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said on Wednesday that the profits generated by Citgo since 2019 should be released to Venezuelan accounts as a key to advance in the dialogue with the opposition. "One of the vital elements to continue advancing in the negotiations is that Citgo is returned to Venezuela, completely, free of dust and straw and that the dividends that Citgo has given in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, be released to Venezuelan accounts for social investment, the dividends of Citgo", detailed the president in a press conference at the Miraflores Palace (Government headquarters) in Caracas.... More
Brasilia, December 1 (RHC)-- President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is due to travel to the United States in December to meet with U.S. President Joe Biden before assuming power in Brazil, former minister Fernando Haddad said Wednesday. According to the university professor, who participated in meetings of the government transition team, Lula received "many invitations from great powers." At the end of the year, however, he must travel to the United States and Argentina.... More
Tel Aviv, December 1 (RHC)-- Israeli media has described the security situation in the Occupied West Bank as ‘dangerous,’ suggesting that the apartheid regime stands before what seems to be another Palestinian Intifada.... More
New York, December 1 (RHC)-- A U.S. federal judge has issued a cease-and-desist order forcing retail giant Amazon to stop retaliating against workers involved in union organizing. Amazon executives will also have to publicly read the 30-page ruling to employees at the Staten Island, New York, Amazon warehouse. ... More
Washington, December 1 (RHC)-- Donald Trump is facing growing condemnation for hosting white supremacist Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last week. Fuentes, who is a Holocaust denier, dined with the president along with the rapper Kanye West, who was suspended from Twitter last month for making anti-Semitic comments. ... More
Washington, December 1 (RHC)-- U.S. President Biden has sided with big business and urged Congress to intervene to block freight rail workers from going on strike, saying it could devastate the economy. Biden asked lawmakers to quickly pass legislation to impose a labor deal that has been opposed by the majority of freight rail workers. ... More
La Paz, December 1 (RHC)-- Bolivian senators have approved legislation that calls for the National Census to avoid the Constitutional Committee's procedure and enter directly into the consideration of the plenary.... More
Canberra, December 1 (RHC)-- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been approaching US government officials to persuade them to drop the espionage charges filed against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Albanese said on Wednesday that he had raised the issue of the continued detention of Assange in meetings with US officials and was seeking to bring the matter to a close.... More
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