Lima, July 28 (RHC)-- Rural teacher and trade unionist Pedro Castillo was sworn in Wednesday as Peru's new president for the 2021-2026 term.... More


London, July 28 (RHC)-- Ecuador has revoked Julian Assange’s citizenship, citing alleged inconsistencies with his naturalization documents.  A lawyer for the imprisoned publisher claims the decision was made without due process.... More


Ramallah, July 28 (RHC)-- A Palestinian man has been killed in Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank, the scene of confrontations between protesters and Israeli forces for weeks, Palestinian officials said.... More


Washington, July 28 (RHC)-- The United States will return to Iraq some 17,000 archaeological treasures dating back 4,000 years and looted in recent decades in an “unprecedented” restitution, the culture minister in Baghdad has said.... More


New York, July 28 (RHC)-- McDonald’s posted better-than-expected sales in the second quarter as dining rooms reopened and new products like its crispy chicken sandwich brought in customers.... More


United Nations, July 28 (RHC)-- Thousands of scientists have repeated calls for urgent action to tackle the climate emergency, warning that several tipping points are now imminent.  They say that the "overexploitation of the Earth" has seen many of its ‘vital signs’ deteriorate to record levels.... More


United Nations, July 28 (RHC)-- Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger as well as one-third of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform food systems to speed up sustainable development. ... More


San Salvador, July 28 (RHC)-- A San Salvador court has set up a preliminary hearing against 10 former officials, including former President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), for alleged corruption offenses.... More


Lima, July 28 (RHC)-- The Congress of the Peruvian Republic began this Wednesday the solemn session for the Anniversary of the Independence of the nation, where the elected president, Pedro Castillo Terrones has officially taken the political power of the country.... More


Caracas, July 28 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, asserted on Tuesday that there is a need for union among the countries of the Americas to consolidate integration and sovereignty.... More


La Paz, July 28 (RHC)-- The Attorney General's Office (FGE) of Bolivia has closed the case of alleged electoral fraud associated with the 2019 elections, after receiving the results of the international expert report commissioned to the Bisite Deep Tech Lab Research Group of the University of Salamanca.... More


Santiago de Chile, July 28 (RHC)-- The global economic recovery continues, but with a widening gap between advanced economies and many emerging market and developing economies thanks to vaccine inequity and a lack of fiscal support, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Tuesday.... More


Port-au-Prince, July 28 (RHC)-- Authorities in Haiti have arrested the head of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s security team as part of its probe into Moïse’s assassination on July 7th.  It remains unclear how Moïse’s assassins were able to get by the president’s security detail without firing a shot. ... More


New York, July 28 (RHC)--A federal judge has found environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger guilty of six counts of criminal contempt of court after he refused to turn over his computer and cellphone. ... More


San Francisco, July 28 (RHC)-- More than 1.5 million acres of land have now burned as firefighters battle 85 active wildfires across the West. ... More


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