La Paz, October 25 (RHC)-- Bolivian President Luis Arce affirmed that the country's popular movement will stop any coup attempt encouraged by right-wing sectors to destabilize the country.  During the Congress of the Single Union Federation of Peasant Workers of Cochabamba on Monday, the Bolivian president said that the right "still wants to undertake coup adventures in our country and no doubt that it has, as it did in 2020, the entire peasant movement, the entire popular movement at the forefront to stop any coup adventure."... More


La Paz, October 25 (RHC)-- The government of Argentina, country that holds the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), expressed its support to the dialogue for the National Census, the axis of the most recent internal dispute between destabilizing right-wing groups and the Bolivian government.... More


Brasilia, October 25 (RHC)-- In Brazil, a former bolsonarista deputy, Roberto Jefferson, was transferred to prison on Monday after barricading himself for eight hours and shooting at the Brazilian Federal Police who were trying to arrest him, which left two agents wounded by the throwing of a grenade.... More


Paris, October 24 (RHC)-- France is facing protests over the cost of living crisis fueled by soaring inflation.  Police have clashed with demonstrators venting anger in the capital Paris, as protesters were met with batons.... More


Brasilia, October 24 (RHC)-- Brazil’s presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said he hopes his far-right rival, incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, will accept an election loss, as Brazilian voters prepare to head to the polls next Sunday.... More


Minneapolis, October 24 (RHC)-- A former police officer in the U.S. city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd just as jury selection was about to begin.... More


La Paz, October 24 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Labor Union (COB) and the organizations belonging to the Pact of Unity (PU) have announced that they will carry out a national mobilization against the stoppage promoted by the right-wing opposition in the department of Santa Cruz.... More


Washington, October 24 (RHC)-- Official figures indicate that from September 2021 to September 2022, immigration authorities made 2.38 million apprehensions of people attempting to cross the southern border of the United States.  This number is a record in the Border Patrol's history and represents an increase of 37% compared to last year, when 1.73 million apprehensions were recorded.... More


Philadelphia, October 24 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of Philadelphia, at least 19 University of Pennsylvania students were arrested after they stormed a football field and disrupted the school’s homecoming game to demand UPenn divest from fossil fuels. ... More


Damascus, October 24 (RHC)-- Syrian air defense units have managed to intercept and bring down most of the missiles launched by the Israeli military at various targets in the vicinity of the Arab country’s capital city of Damascus.... More


London, October 24 (RHC)-- In the United Kingdom, former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak will become the next Prime Minister after Boris Johnson and House of Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt pulled out of the race. ... More


Tehran, October 24 (RHC)-- A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States must leave the West Asia region as it only seeks to weaken and ultimately disintegrate Muslim countries.  Ali Akbar Velayati made the remarks in a meeting with the former Iraqi prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, in Tehran on Sunday, when he touched on plots hatched by foreign enemies, the United States in particular, against regional countries.... More


Washington, October 24 (RHC)-- A new report from the Pentagon has shown that militant attacks increased 300 percent in Africa over the past decade.  The September report from the Pentagon’s Africa Center for Strategic Studies showed that the west Sahel region and Somalia were the militancy hot spots where most of the attacks had been carried out.... More


Washington, October 24 (RHC)-- Former U.S. president Donald Trump will not be allowed to turn any testimony he gives to the January 6th committee into a "circus," says the vice chairwoman of the panel, Liz Cheney.... More


Houston, October 24 (RHC)-- Former U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he would “probably” have to run for the White House again, indicating a potential 2024 rematch against the incumbent president, Joe Biden.  Speaking on Saturday at a rally in Robstown, Texas, where Trump was campaigning for Republicans, he reiterated claims that he won the 2020 election.... More


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