Beijing, September 1 (RHC)-- China’s Foreign Ministry has demanded probes be opened into numerous allegations of crimes committed by the U.S. military against Afghans during the 20-year occupation of the now-Taliban controlled nation.... More

Caracas, September 1 (RHC)-- The government of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the opposition will meet again on Friday in Mexico, in the resumption of the dialogue table that both parties installed in August.... More

Mexico City, September 1 (RHC)-- Bolivian coup plotters launched a projectile against the plane of the Mexican Air Force (FAM) in which the former president of that South American country, Evo Morales, was rescued in November 2019, according to the most recent book of the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.... More

Guatemala City, September 1 (RHC)-- A Guatemalan court has decided to try two retired Army generals for the genocide of more than 1,700 indigenous people during the armed conflict in the Central American country.... More

Kabul, September 1 (RHC)-- Sunday’s drone strike in Kabul, which Washington claims targeted a potential Daesh operative preparing a bomb attack, in fact turned out to be a horrifying military blunder that took the lives of 10 members of an Afghan family, seven of them children, according to survivors and witnesses of the nightmarish strike.... More

Rome, August 31 (RHC)-- More than 500 refugees were rescued from an overcrowded fishing boat off of the Italian island of Lampedusa over the weekend.  The boat had reportedly departed from Libya.  Some of the refugees showed signs of having been physically abused or tortured, and Italian officials are investigating whether some of the refugees had been wrongfully imprisoned in Libya.... More

Tallahassee, August 31 (RHC)-- The U.S. COVID-19 outlook continues to worsen, with hospitalizations rising and deaths averaging more than 1,300 per day.  On Monday, the Biden administration announced a civil rights probe into five states that have banned local officials from mandating masks.  The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights argues those states are endangering students with disabilities who are at greater risk of COVID-19 by denying them equal access to safe in-person instruction.... More

Kabul, August 31 (RHC)-- The U.S. military has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, bringing an official end to the longest war in U.S. history.  Marine General Frank McKenzie said the last troops flew out of Kabul just before midnight local time in Kabul on Monday.... More