Bogota, August 20 (RHC)-- Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Saturday that he authorized the reinstatement of protocols with the leaders chosen as negotiators of the National Liberation Army (ELN), as well as the suspension of arrest and extradition warrants against them.... More
La Paz, August 20 (RHC)-- The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People's Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP) condemned "the terrorist attacks perpetrated in Venezuela against oil facilities and a medicine warehouse," ALBA-TCP executive secretary Sasha Llorenti said via Twitter. ... More
Panama City, August 20 (RHC)-- Several Panamanian trade unions grouped in the Alianza Pueblo Unido por la Vida marched to the Palacio de las Garzas to demand the Government to comply with the agreements established at the dialogue table held in Penonomé.... More
Bogota, August 20 (RHC)-- The president of the Colombian Senate, Roy Barreras, said Friday that it is urgent to approval of the "Law against Hunger" in the South American country, as part of what he called "a comprehensive look at food security and sovereignty, rural development and rural economy."... More
Beijing, August 20 (RHC)-- In climate news, China has deployed cloud-seeding airplanes over drought-stricken parts of the country, as hundreds of millions of people endure China’s longest heat wave on record. ... More
New York, August 20 (RHC)-- In New York City, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer has pleaded guilty to 15 felony charges of tax evasion and other illicit business practices. ... More
Damascus, August 20 (RHC)-- At least 14 civilians have been killed and dozens of others wounded when a rocket attack hit the town of al-Bab in northern Syria, an opposition war monitor and a paramedic group reported.... More
Ramallah, August 20 (RHC)-- Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian man during a raid on the northern West Bank city of Tubas. The Palestinian health ministry identified the man as 58-year-old Salah Tawfiq Sawafta, and said he succumbed to his wounds after he was shot in the head earlier on Friday.... More
Mexico City, August 20 (RHC)-- Mexican authorities on Friday arrested a former top prosecutor who led the heavily criticised investigation into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014, on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice.... More
Belo Horizonte, August 20 (RHC)-- The first rally of the electoral campaign of the former president and candidate of the Workers' Party (PT) for the presidency of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, gathered more than 100,000 supporters in the city of Belo Horizonte. The event was held at the Station Square in the capital of Minas Gerais, the second largest polling station in that nation.... More
Mexico City, August 20 (RHC)-- A truth commission investigating one of Mexico’s worst human rights tragedies said that military personnel bore responsibility, either directly or through negligence, for the disappearance of 43 students in 2014.... More
Ramallah, August 20 (RHC)-- Israeli forces raided and closed the offices of seven Palestinian civil society rights groups in the occupied West Bank. Several of the groups report soldiers confiscated items and files, before leaving behind notices declaring the organizations unlawful. ... More
Columbia, August 19 (RHC)-- South Carolina’s Supreme Court has temporarily blocked enforcement of the state’s six-week ban on abortions while a legal challenge to the law proceeds. ... More
Atlanta, August 19 (RHC)-- Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has testified to a grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of a criminal probe into election interference by Trump and his supporters. ... More
Geneva, August 19 (RHC)-- A top United Nations official has warned fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has spawned the worst humanitarian disaster on Earth. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom — who is originally from Tigray — said the conflict, which first erupted in late 2020, now threatens the lives of millions, even as global leaders largely ignore the crisis.... More
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