Mexico City, July 7 (RHC)-- In Mexico, human rights advocates are demanding justice for another Indigenous land defender assassinated in the southern state of Chiapas.... More


United Nations, July 7 (RHC)-- The United Nations is warning over three-quarters of households in Lebanon do not have enough food or money to buy food, as the social, political and economic crises continue to spiral.... More


Washington, July 7 (RHC)-- The Pentagon announced it is canceling a contentious $10 billion contract for a cloud computing system known as Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. ... More


Port-au-Prince, July 7 (RHC)-- Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse has been assassinated in an armed attack, the country's Prime Minister Claude Joseph confirmed in a statement.... More


Rome, July 7 (RHC)-- Prosecutors in Sicily are investigating video footage that allegedly shows a Libyan Coast Guard vessel firing warning shots at a migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea. The probe, however, will face an uphill struggle.... More


Geneva, July 7 (RHC)-- The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned governments around the world against easing COVID-19 restrictions too soon, saying countries that did so risked paying a heavy price for rushing back to normality.... More


Madrid, July 7 (RHC)-- Squadron 421 of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) of Mexico was received in Madrid, where its members delivered the "seed entrusted" by their peoples in the fight against inequality.... More


Bogota, July 7 (RHC)-- A Colombian court has accused 10 members of the military and a civilian of forcibly disappearing 24 people and murdering at least 120 civilians and falsely presenting them as fighters who had been killed in combat.... More


Baghdad, July 6 (RHC)-- An explosives-laden drone was shot out of the sky by American air defenses as it neared the US Embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, Iraqi security sources said, soon after rockets targeted a base housing US troops.... More


Tel Aviv, July 6 (RHC)-- Israel’s new government suffered its first big defeat in parliament, failing to renew a controversial law that prevents Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip who marry Palestinian citizens of Israel from gaining citizenship and residency rights themselves.... More


Honolulu, July 6 (RHC)-- Renowned Native Hawaiian activist, author and scholar Haunani-Kay Trask died this weekend in Honolulu after battling Alzheimer’s for years.  She was 71. ... More


Memphis, July 6 (RHC)-- In the U.S. state of Tennessee, environmental activists are celebrating the cancellation of the Byhalia Connection pipeline, which would have carried crude oil over an aquifer that provides drinking water to one million people.... More


Mexico City, July 6 (RHC)-- In the Gulf of Mexico, an underwater natural gas pipeline near an oil platform ruptured off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, creating a massive circular inferno on the surface of the ocean that was widely described as an “eye of fire.”... More


La Paz, July 6 (RHC)-- The Bolivian Attorney General's Office has admitted a new lawsuit against former de facto coup 'president' Jeanine Áñez for the massacres in Sacaba and Senkata, which occurred in November 2019.  ... More


Quito, July 6 (RHC)-- Ecuador's Comptroller General, Pablo Celi, resigned on Monday amid a criminal investigation against him for the alleged crime of organized crime for which he has been detained since April 13th.... More


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