Dallas, October 22 (RHC)-- In Texas, immigrant justice advocates are raising alarm over what they say is the unlawful detention of at least seven migrants from Mexico who were shot at by two white men three weeks ago. ... More
London, October 22 (RHC)-- The chief executive of the UK’s national grid has warned British households to prepare for a “worst-case scenario” of power cuts and blackouts on “really, really cold” weekdays in winter. The head of the National Grid ESO, John Pettigrew, said that the company would have to impose rolling power cuts on “those deepest darkest evenings in January and February.”... More
Washington, October 22 (RHC)-- A top civil rights group in the United States has asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s ruling that upheld an Arkansas state law penalizing companies that boycott Israel. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a petition on Thursday asking the top court to take up the case, arguing the Appeals Court decision violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects the right to free speech.... More
United Nations, October 22 (RHC)-- Experts of an UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory have concluded that the Israeli occupation and the Tel Aviv regime's expansionism are unlawful under international law, based on what it said was "reasonable grounds."... More
Dublin, October 22 (RHC)-- Trinity College, Ireland's leading university, has announced that it no longer has investments in arms and weapons companies that are complicit with the Israeli apartheid regime. ... More
Caracas, October 22 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government celebrated on Friday the arrival in the country of the last five crew members of the Emtrasur aircraft that had been held in Argentina since June 6th. "We have achieved the freedom of the 19 crew members that had been kidnapped by the Judiciary of Argentina. It is a victory that we celebrate with great strength because our Government is a socialist one and in this first stage, we are dedicated to the liberation of our human talent," said the Minister of Transportation, Ramón Velásquez, in an interview to teleSUR.... More
New York, October 22 (RHC)-- The wife of Mexico's president and head of a Mexican cultural affairs commission has accused American luxury fashion brand Ralph Lauren of plagiarizing indigenous designs, terming it an attempt to appropriate work of the country's pre-Hispanic cultures.... More
Miami, October 22 (RHC)-- Former Bolivian Interior Minister Arturo Murillo pleaded guilty to bribery and money laundering in a case of purchase of anti-riot material, which took place during the U.S.-backed de facto government lead by Jeanine Añez.... More
Washington, October 22 (RHC)-- Steve Bannon, a former top adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, has been sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to cooperate with lawmakers investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol. United States District Judge Carl Nichols imposed the sentence on Friday and also ordered Bannon to pay a fine of $6,500.... More
Ramallah, October 21 (RHC)-- A Palestinian teenager has died from wounds he sustained one month ago when he was shot by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian health ministry announced that Mohammad Fadi Nouri, 16, died on Thursday.... More
Berlin, October 21 (RHC)-- In Germany, nine climate activists with the group Scientist Rebellion have staged a nonviolent civil disobedience protest at the showroom of a Volkswagen factory in the city of Wolfsburg. Protesters glued scientific research papers to different models of Porsches on display, and they used superglue to attach themselves to the floor. ... More
Damascus, October 21 (RHC)-- France has repatriated 40 children and 15 women from Kurdish-run camps in Syria holding family members of suspected ISIL (ISIS) armed group fighters, according to the French foreign ministry. The 15 children were handed over to childcare services while the women are transferred to the judicial authorities, the ministry said on Thursday.... More
Caracas, October 21 (RHC)-- The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has raised Venezuela's growth projection to 12 percent by 2022 and 5 percent next year. In August, ECLAC had estimated that Venezuela's economic expansion would be 10 percent this year, up from the five percent it projected in May.... More
N'Djamena, October 21 (RHC)-- Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Deby has declared a state of emergency over flooding that is affecting more than a million people in the country. Floods are not uncommon during Chad’s rainy season, which usually runs from May to October in its southern regions. But this year, the rains came early and were the heaviest in decades.... More
Bogota, October 21 (RHC)-- Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the United States of ruining almost all the world's economies in pursuit of protecting itself, regardless of what happens to other countries.... More
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