Bogota, June 19 (RHC)-- Leftist candidate Gustavo Petro is emerging as Colombia's next president.  According to the National Registrar's Office, the count of this Sunday's second round advanced to almost 90% by obtaining 10,075,836 votes, equivalent to 50.88%.... More


London, June 19 (RHC)-- Thousands of people came from across the UK over the weekend to protest outside the parliament.  Trade union leaders have joined frontline workers and community organizations to call for higher wages and support.... More


New York, June 19 (RHC)-- The U.S., from coast to coast, is being hit with extreme climate change, affecting weather and energy supplies.... More


Bogota, June 19 (RHC)-- Today, Sunday, a total of 39 million 2 thousand 239 Colombians are eligible to vote in a second electoral round to choose the next president of the country-- between Gustavo Petro, leader of the left-wing coalition Pacto Histórico, and the right-wing businessman of the Liga de Gobernantes Anticorrupción, Rodolfo Hernández.... More


London, June 19 (RHC)--WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's brother told reporters in London that the Assange legal team's appeal against his extradition to the U.S. would include information about a CIA plot to assassinate him.... More


Moscow, June 19 (RHC)-- The U.S. military has reportedly expanded its illegal bases in eastern Syria and strengthened them with air systems.  Russia's Sputnik news agency reported that that the U.S. occupation forces are strengthening their ranks in eastern Syria, expanding their positions and moving more military convoys in the area.... More


Quito, June 18 (RHC)-- The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) denounced this Saturday that the president of his organization, Leonidas Iza Salazar, suffered an attack when he was parking his vehicle, fortunately he was unharmed.... More


Ecuador's president has declared a state of exception across three flashpoint provinces, in a bid to calm protests invoked by the country’s indigenous community against rising prices.... More


Caracas, June 18 (RHC)-- President Nicolás Maduro returned this Saturday to Venezuela, after completing an international tour that covered the nations of Türkiye, Algeria, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar and Azerbaijan and highlighted the results achieved in economic, financial and political matters, through the agreements signed with the rulers of the respective nations visited.... More


Gaza City, June 18 (RHC)-- Israel has launched air raids on the Gaza Strip after rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave targeted the city of Ashkelon in southern Israel, following months of relative calm in the region.... More


New Delhi, June 18 (RHC)-- Monsoon storms in Bangladesh and India have killed at least 41 people and unleashed devastating floods that left millions of others stranded, officials said on Saturday.... More


Ramallah, June 18 (RHC)-- At least 78 people were injured after Israeli forces attacked protest rallies against the regime’s settler-colonial activities in the northern part of the occupied West Bank on Friday.... More


New York, June 18 (RHC)-- New research shows temperatures in parts of the Arctic are warming at a rate seven times faster than the global average, according to the journal Scientific Reports. ... More


Topeka, June 18 (RHC)-- At least 2,000 cows have died in recent days in the U.S. state of Kansas due to excessive heat and humidity. Much of the United States has been facing a brutal heat wave this week as more than 1,800 temperature records have been shattered from California to Michigan.... More


Brasilia, June 18 (RHC)-- Federal police in Brazil say they have identified the remains of British journalist Dom Phillips, who disappeared alongside Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in a remote area of the country’s Amazon rainforest in early June.... More


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