Panama City, July 21 (RHC)--The National Coordination of Indigenous Peoples of Panama (Coonapip) began a strike this Wednesday to demand the Government the titling of lands, as well as access to the gasoline subsidy in force since this week.... More


Ramallah, July 21 (RHC)-- Thousands of Israeli settlers have attempted to set up new illegal settlement outposts in six locations across the occupied West Bank.  Groups of Jewish youth and families arrived at the earmarked locations in buses, on foot and in vehicles throughout Wednesday, bearing Israeli flags and camping tents under the protection of the Israeli army and police.... More


Los Angeles, July 21 (RHC)-- A Black-owned beach in the United States that served as a rare resort for Black patrons in segregation-era California, before it was seized by local officials in the 1920s, has been returned to the descendants of its original owners.... More


Gaza City, July 21 (RHC)-- The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas has strongly denounced new Israeli plans to build more settlements in the occupied Palestinian lands, stressing that such criminal policies were the direct result of the US's unconditional support for the Tel Aviv regime.... More


Beijing, July 21 (RHC)-- China has urged the United States to immediately stop plundering Syria’s national resources after reports said American forces had recently transferred stolen Syrian oil to northern Iraq.  ... More


Los Angeles, July 21 (RHC)-- A new study of U.S. researchers has found that nearly one in four COVID-19 sufferers had long COVID, symptoms that last 12 weeks or longer.  The study, led by researchers of the University of Southern California (USC), recruited about 8,000 respondents from across the country to answer bi-weekly questions about their overall health and COVID-19 status from March 2020 to March 2021.... More


Santiago de Chile, July 21 (RHC)-- On September 4, Chile's constitutional proposal will be submitted to a referendum, where Chilean citizens will determine whether they approve or reject the document.... More


Oakland, July 21 (RHC)-- Protests against a new California labor law that makes it harder for independent truckers to operate on Wednesday ground operations at the state’s third-busiest seaport to a virtual halt, crimping a major artery in the U.S. supply chain.... More


Caracas, July 21 (RHC)-- The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, enacted this Wednesday the Organic Law of Special Economic Zones to boost the "productive development of the country with a perspective that breaks with the oil rentier model."... More


Asuncion, July 21 (RHC)-- The 60th Summit of the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) began on Wednesday with meetings of ministers of foreign affairs and economy in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, where the Summit of Presidents will be held on Thursday.... More


Rome, July 21 (RHC)-- Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has submitted his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella after key coalition parties withdrew their support for his government.  In a statement on Thursday, the president’s office said Mattarella had “taken note” of the resignation and asked Draghi’s government to remain on in a caretaker capacity.... More


Bogota, July 21 (RHC)-- The Institute of Studies for Development and Peace (Indepaz) of Colombia, denounced Wednesday the murder of social leader José Edilson Vargas Monroy, whose violent death brings to 103 the number of leaders murdered so far in 2022 and 1,330 since the signing of the Peace Agreement at the end of 2016.... More


Madrid, July 21 (RHC)-- Spain’s prime minister has said more than 500 people died during a 10-day heatwave as Europe counts the cost of a record period of extreme temperatures.  Climate change protesters said the scorching weather should be a wake-up call for the continent.... More


Bogota, July 21 (RHC)-- The new Colombian Congress, with a majority of the Historical Pact coalition in both chambers, was installed on Wednesday in an official ceremony in the Elliptical Hall headed by President Iván Duque on a date coinciding with the celebration of the 212th anniversary of the cry of Independence.... More


San Bernardino, July 21 (RHC)-- In the U.S. city of San Bernardino, California, the family of a Black man shot dead by police is calling for charges to be filed against the officers involved. ... More


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