New York, July 15 (RHC)-- A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) software engineer has been convicted of leaking classified information to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, in one of the biggest such thefts in the United States spy agency’s history.... More


Brasilia, July 14 (RHC)-- The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, held on Wednesday a meeting with the president of the Senate of that country, Rodrigo Pacheco, in the framework of the upcoming elections in the South American nation.... More


Washington, July 14 (RHC)-- The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) urged on Wednesday the governments of the region to reinforce measures against COVID-19, such as the reintroduction of the use of masks or face masks, physical distancing, diagnostic tests and vaccination, due to the increase of infections in the last week.... More


Washington, July 14 (RHC)-- During his visit to the White House, Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) raised the U.S. President Joe Biden proposals related to energy and migration.... More


Washington, July 14 (RHC)-- The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol has revealed stark new details tying former President Donald Trump to the most violent extremists leading the insurrection.  ... More


Washington, July 14 (RHC)-- U.S. inflation roared again to a fresh four-decade high last month, likely strengthening the Federal Reserve’s resolve to aggressively raise interest rates that risks upending the economic expansion.... More


Brussels, July 14 (RHC)-- The euro has fallen below the symbolic level of $1.00 for the first time since December 2002, weighed down by the darkening economic outlook for the single-currency area and a possibility of a complete stoppage in Russian gas supplies.... More


Nairobi, July 14 (RHC)-- Countries on Africa’s west coast are increasingly turning to climate funding initiatives to boost livelihoods of oceanside communities, aid biodiversity and take climate action.... More


Melilla, July 14 (RHC)-- At least 23 migrants who died last month in a mass attempt to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco likely “suffocated”, the state-backed National Human Rights Council of Morocco (CNDH) has said.... More


London, July 14 (RHC)-- The BBC reports that British commandos deployed to Afghanistan killed at least 54 Afghans under suspicious circumstances during a six-month tour of Helmand province starting in late 2010. ... More


Jerusalem, July 14 (RHC)-- Ahead of the arrival of the U.S. president to Tel Aviv, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem launched a campaign seeking to turn Biden's attention to the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.  ... More


Tel Aviv, July 14 (RHC)-- The Israeli army began confiscating 1,480 dunams of lands belonging to Palestinians north of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, just as U.S. President Joe Biden touched down in Israel to kick off his first trip to the Middle East since taking office.... More


Ramallah, July 14 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden has rejected a request by Shireen Abu Akleh’s family to meet with him during his visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank this week, as pressure mounts on the United States to ensure accountability for the journalist’s killing by Israeli forces.... More


Bogota, July 13 (RHC)-- Colombia's President-elect Gustavo Petro warned Colombia's leading oil company Ecopetrol about continuing an energy transition plan toward clean energies.... More


Panama City, July 13 (RHC)-- Panamanian unions are demanding answers of the president to 32 demands presented to the administration and the establishment of dialogue tables with representatives of the main sectors of the country.... More


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