Barcelona, November 19 (RHC)-- Spanish police have seized more than 50 tons of marijuana, the largest amount of the drug ever confiscated in the country. Eight farms have been dismantled in the northeastern region of Catalonia and 20 people were detained on suspected electricity fraud and offences against public health, police said in a statement on Friday.... More
Caracas, November 19 (RHC)-- With a call to strengthen unity, the meeting of the Working Group of the Sao Paulo Forum began Friday in Venezuela, which will be held for two days with the attendance of 60 delegates from 25 countries.... More
Geneva, November 19 (RHC)-- On Friday, Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez held meetings with officials from United Nations agencies in Geneva, where she denounced the consequences of the arbitrary sanctions that the United States and the European Union maintain against her country.... More
Gaza City, November 18 (RHC)-- As soon as she heard the news that a fire had broken out in the building where her sister lived, Aya Abu Rayya ran down the street towards it, screaming, “My sister, my sister.” When she arrived, all she could do was watch as the flames consumed the building where her sister and extended family had lived.... More
Caracas, November 18 (RHC)-- The city of Caracas will serve as the seat of the dialogue table between the Colombian Government and the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla forces, the Colombian Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.... More
New York, November 18 (RHC)-- Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are on strike Thursday in their largest labor action since a campaign to unionize the company’s stores began late last year. The walkouts coincide with Starbucks’s annual Red Cup Day, when the company gives free reusable cups to customers who order a holiday drink. Workers say it’s often one of the busiest days of the year.... More
Palm Beach, November 18 (RHC)-- The family business of former U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a licensing deal worth $1.6 billion with a real estate developer based in Saudi Arabia to build a resort in Oman, as the 76-year-old businessman-turned-politician prepares his return to presidential politics.... More
Philadelphia, November 18 (RHC)-- Nearly 30 asylum seekers have arrived in Philadelphia on a bus sent by Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott. A 10-year-old girl was immediately taken to the hospital with dehydration and a high fever after the long and arduous journey. ... More
Mexico City, November 18 (RHC)-- The Mexican Institute of Finance Executives (IMEF) is warning that the Mexican economy faces risk from an expected U.S. economic slowdown and global inflation. In its updated monthly forecast, the IMEF upgraded expected economic growth in 2022 from 1.9 percent to 2.5 percent, but lowered it for 2023, from 1.2 percent to 1.1 percent.... More
Washington, November 18 (RHC)-- In the United States, a federal judge has given the Biden administration a five-week transition period to end the Trump-era Title 42 policy, which has expelled over two million migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border without due process since 2020. ... More
The Hague, November 17 (RHC)-- The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is holding public hearings on the preliminary objections raised by Venezuela in the case concerning the 1899 Arbitral Award whereby the United Kingdom delimited borders between Venezuela and Guyana.... More
Brasilia, November 17 (RHC)-- Brazilian Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes has ordered to block the accounts of far-right activists who disavow President-elect Lula da Silva and call for a coup.... More
Sacramento, November 17 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of California, long-serving Democratic Congressmember Karen Bass has become the first woman to be elected mayor of Los Angeles. Bass beat real estate mogul Rick Caruso, who spent over $100 million of his own fortune on his losing campaign. ... More
Ramallah, November 17 (RHC)-- Benjamin Netanyahu, currently tasked with forming a new Israeli government after his coalition won elections earlier this month, has pledged to legalise dozens of illegal settler outposts in the occupied West Bank, after a meeting with far-right, controversial politician Itamar Ben-Gvir.... More
Kampala, November 17 (RHC)-- Ugandan doctors have expressed fear that the Ebola outbreak may get out of control in the coming days and weeks. Case numbers remain low compared with a 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that killed at least 11,300. When Ebola broke out in Uganda in September, 10 doctors immediately stepped forward to work in an isolation unit at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, but now only three are left.... More
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