La Paz, July 23 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Minister of Justice and Institutional Transparency, Iván Lima, reported that the Government will publish in August the report of the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) on the acts of violence and human rights (HR) violations that occurred in 2019 after the coup d'état. ... More
Tripoli, July 23 (RHC)-- At least 20 refugees are presumed to have drowned off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea Wednesday. This week alone, the Libyan Coast Guard has intercepted seven vessels and apprehended hundreds of refugees, including children, as they attempted to reach Europe for safety. ... More
Managua, July 23 (RHC)-- On July 23, 1961 -- 60 years ago -- the FSLN was founded in Nicaragua. The Frente Sandinista de la Liberacion Nacional fought and won a guerrilla war against the Somoza dynasty and soon became a fundamental organization in the history of Nicaragua and a reference for Latin America.... More
Caracas, July 23 (RHC)-- The Venezuelan government has announced it is ready to begin a new dialogue with the opposition, scheduled to be held in Mexico, with the aim of reaching agreements in favor of the country's sovereignty.... More
Beijing, July 23 (RHC)-- Villagers were evacuated over makeshift bridges on Friday as floods submerged swaths of central China, and a clean-up began in Zhengzhou where at least 33 people died earlier this week after days of torrential rain.... More
Quito, July 23 (RHC)-- At least 22 inmates have been killed and several police injured during riots at two of Ecuador’s largest jails, the Andean nation said, marking the second big deadly wave of prison violence this year.... More
London, July 23 (RHC)-- The COVID-19 crisis has weakened prosperity in the United States, but even before the pandemic, mass shootings, elevated obesity levels and mental health issues had taken their toll on Americans’ quality of life, a report by the Legatum Institute published Thursday showed.... More
Mexico City, July 23 (RHC)-- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has urged Israel to attend to the extradition request of the former chief director of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), Tomás Zerón, for accusations against him of tampering with evidence in the Ayotzinapa case.... More
Washington, July 23 (RHC)-- The Biden administration is urging a federal court to sentence drone whistleblower Daniel Hale to at least nine years in prison for leaking classified information about the U.S. targeted assassination program, according to a report in the Dissent newsletter. ... More
United Nations, July 23 (RHC)-- The president of the upcoming United Nations climate talks in the United Kingdom has urged nations to ban the burning of coal as part of an effort to reduce carbon emissions. ... More
Washington, July 23 (RHC)-- The Pentagon has confirmed four of the Colombian mercenaries accused of assassinating Haitian President Jovenel Moïse once received U.S. military training at Fort Benning in Georgia while they were members of the Colombian armed forces.... More
Geneva, July 23 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization says the number of new COVID cases jumped 12% across the globe last week as the highly contagious Delta variant continues to spread. ... More
Lima, July 22 (RHC)-- The president of Peru, Francisco Sagasti, and the president-elect, Pedro Castillo, met on Wednesday to analyze the transfer process, a week before the inauguration of the new president in the South American country.... More
United Nations, July 22 (RHC)-- A group of rapporteurs and independent human rights experts of the United Nations denounced Wednesday that the economic sanctions imposed by the United States (US) government on Venezuela put cancer patients at risk.... More
Burlington, July 22 (RHC)-- Israel’s president has been targeted by a barrage of social media snark after he bravely compared Ben & Jerry’s decision, to stop selling its ice cream in the occupied Palestinian territories, to terrorism.... More
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