London, October 19 (RHC)-- Many scientists are pressing the British government to reimpose social restrictions and speed up booster vaccinations as coronavirus infection rates, already Europe’s highest, rise still further.... More


Managua, October 19 (RHC)-- The Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry has issued a statement after confirming that the OAS will address the "situation of the country" on Wednesday.  Nicaragua calls for respect for sovereignty and self-determination.... More


Caracas, October 19 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has demanded justice for the kidnapping of diplomat Alex Saab who was arbitrarily transferred from the African nation of Cape Verde to the United States.... More


Quito, October 19 (RHC)-- The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, decreed late Monday a state of emergency for 60 days in the framework of his National Security Plan, which sets off alarms because the security forces will remain deployed in the country with their weapons ready.... More


San Juan, October 18 (RHC)-- In Puerto Rico, over 4,000 people took to the streets of San Juan over the weekend to protest ongoing and worsening power outages and increases in energy costs following the U.S.-imposed privatization of the electricity grid.... More


Brasilia, October 18 (RHC)-- In Brazil, two Indigenous Yanomami children drowned in a river where illegal gold miners operate.  Yanomami leaders said the children, who were 7 and 5 years old, were sucked into a dredger machine as they were bathing in the Parima River. ... More


Baghdad, October 18 (RHC)-- For many Iraqis, Colin Powell is the American official who went before the United Nations Security Council in 2003 to justify a devastating war against their country.... More


La Paz, October 18 (RHC)-- The Minister of Government of Bolivia, Eduardo del Castillo, denounced on Monday that less than a year ago there was an assassination attempt against the president, Luis Arce, when he had not yet taken office, in which those responsible for the death of the president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, had been involved.... More


Buenos Aires, October 18 (RHC)-- An Argentinean judge has indicted a former Spanish minister who served during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco on four counts of homicide.  The judge also ordered the immediate arrest of Martín Villa, who lives in Madrid, but said it was unlikely to happen. ... More


Ramallah, October 18 (RHC)-- At least seven Palestinian inmates have remained on an open-ended hunger strike to protest the Israeli so-called administrative detention, which allows prisoners to be held without charge or trial.... More


Santiago de Chile, October 18 (RHC)-- Movements and organizations mobilize this Monday in various parts of Chile, in acts of protest that recall the two years of the social outbreak of October and November 2019 in that South American nation.... More


Beijing, October 18 (RHC)-- The Chinese military has blasted the U.S. and Canada for sending their warships through the Taiwan Strait, claiming such stunts jeopardize regional stability, after Beijing itself staged beach war drills in a nearby province.... More


San Salvador, October 18 (RHC)--Various Salvadoran organizations, platforms and social movements on Sunday took part in a day of protests and marches against the government of Nayib Bukele who they accuse of exercising his office with authoritarianism.... More


Ramallah, October 18 (RHC)-- Israeli settlers have committed violent, daily attacks against Palestinian villages and residents harvesting their olive trees over the past week.  The attacks, which include beatings of farmers and destruction of trees, preceded the formal start of the olive harvest season on October 12 in the occupied West Bank, but intensified in number over the past week.... More


Caracas, October 18 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, condemned this Sunday the kidnapping by the United States of the diplomat Alex Saab.  "The U.S. empire violating all International Law, took a Venezuelan diplomat.  T this is the second kidnapping against him, the first one took place on June 12, 2020 in Cape Verde," stated the president.... More


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